Radio Orania
| Broadcast area | Northern Cape |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 95.5 MHz |
Radio Orania is a South African community radio station based in the Northern Cape. The coverage area is Orania, a town in the Northern Cape,[1] although some reception is possible as far as Hopetown.[2]
Programmes are broadcast in Afrikaans language,[1] from 5 am to 4 pm and 5 to 10 pm.[1] The Orania community is the target audience.[1] Programme format includes about 40% music and 60% talk.[1]
The radio station was launched on 12 April 2008, after its predecessor Radio 100 had been shut down by ICASA.[3] The station is manned by volunteers only,[4] counting over 50 contributors.[5]
Programmes include readings of Afrikaans literature such as Mikro's Die ruiter in die nag.[6] A 13-year-old student at Orania's Volkskool made local news in 2009, when his radio play about Battle of Majuba was broadcast by the station.[7]
Listenership figures
| 7 Day | |
| May 2013 | 22 000 |
|---|---|
| Feb 2013 | 8 000 |
| Dec 2012 | 9 000 |
| Oct 2012 | 8 000 |
| Aug 2012 | 6 000 |
| Jun 2012 | 6 000 |
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 The Annual Guide to Radio in South Africa (AdVantage 2012). Media 24. 2012.
- ↑ Hagen 2013, p. 65.
- ↑ "Voorgrond" (in Afrikaans). Orania Beweging. July 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ↑ "Get ready for Radio Orania...". IOL News. 10 April 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ↑ "Orania Beweging". Twitter. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ↑ Hagen 2013, p. 66.
- ↑ Lombard, Eleanor (20 March 2009). "Pluimpie vir jong skrywer". Volksblad. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ↑ SAARF RAMS (Presentations)
References
- Hagen, Lise (January 2013), Place of our own: The Anthropology of Space and Place In the Afrikaner Volkstaat of Orania (PDF), Pretoria: University of South Africa, retrieved 1 April 2015