Bush Radio (radio station)

Bush Radio is an independent radio station in Cape Town , South Africa . In Cape Town sends it out from the frequency 89.5 MHz FM.

History
The idea of Bush Radio started when the struggle against apartheid in the eighties witnessed in recent years. Bush Radio started as a project of Cassette Education Trust and broadcasting at the start then also spread through audio cassettes .

When Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and the armed ANC Department Umkhonto we Sizwe , was assassinated on April 10, 1993, Bush Radio began live broadcasts. At the start sent the station still illegal, but after the African National Congress, the South African elections in 1994 were won, the radio station could broadcast from 1995 further legally based on one-year licenses from the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA).

In 2000, Bush Radio was awarded a Prince Claus Award in the category of Urban Heroes.

In July 2002 the station was given a four-year license, which was further extended in 2006. Since then, the radio station broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days in the week.

Audience
The radio station can be characterized as community radio and brings into discussion programs and informational broadcasts social themes addressed as AIDS and truth and reconciliation . The listening audience consists mainly of the most disadvantaged South Africans.

The station is aimed at an audience aged eighteen to forty years.