Rhodes Music Radio Episode 1

In this first episode of Voices of Makhanda: Stories in Many Tongues, host Asithandile Mayongo sits down with the people who run Rhodes Music Radio (RMR), Makhanda's campus community radio station. They include the Station Manager (Unathi Koboka), Head of News (Thokozani Madlangathi), and experienced Makhanda Diaries producer and Head of Tech (Noxolo Manyati). The conversation explores how language decisions are actually made, why translation is one of the hardest problems the station faces, who checks the quality of isiXhosa and Afrikaans bulletins (and who cannot), and what happens when presenters break the licensing rules to broadcast in the language they believe best serves their audience. This episode offers an honest look inside a community radio station trying to serve a divided town in the languages people actually speak.