‘You are Listening to Radio Lebowa of the South African Broadcasting Corporation’: Vernacular Radio, Bantustan Identity and Listenership, 1960–1994

Resettlement and the Making of the Ciskei Bantustan, South Africa,c.1960–1976

“…107 It offers a contribution to historians' developing understandings of the social and cultural processes that underpinned the making of ethnic identities, which found little support as nationalist projects but nevertheless in some places, in particular moments and among particular groups, were platforms that found appeal. 108 Mass resettlement and housing development were instrumental in the making of TAs in the northern Ciskei. The paper contributes, along with Wotshela's account, to a materialist history of the Ciskei that explores the local-level and blundering processes that shaped the construction of indirect rule in this Bantustan, the shaky material foundations underpinning these authorities and the social dynamics that helped precipitate their decline.…”

Reading the Radio-Magazine: Culture, Decolonization and the Paigc’s Rádio libertação

“…My argument builds on existing work in history and media studies on Rádio Libertação (Martinho 2017), on lusophone colonial and anticolonial broadcasting (Saide 2020;Moorman 2018Moorman , 2019Ribeiro 2017) as well as broader work on clandestine and liberation radios in Africa (Gunner, Ligaga, and Moyo 2010;Scales 2013;Lekgoathi 2020Lekgoathi , 2009Kushner 1974;Heinze 2019Heinze , 2014. My engagement with the story of the radio station from a literary and cultural studies perspective, however, is centred on the claim that Rádio Libertação was an important intervention in the evolving rearticulations of the relationships between culture and politics that interventions -0:0 characterized the conjuncture of decolonization.…”

Public Islam in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Radio Islam Controversy

“…This is perhaps most evident in the apartheid government's policy of 'separate development', which saw South Africa as composed of multiple cultures, each possessing its own distinctive 'essence' that ought to be nurtured independently of others. Radio became one means, among others, of fostering 'separate development', as in the case of Radio Bantu (Hamm, 1992;Lekgoathi, 2009). In the 1950s and early 1960s, this policy began to make its distinct imprint on both urban space and myriad forms of cultural expression.…”