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Rhodes Music Radio (RMR) is a campus based community radio station located in the heart of Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa. RMR was founded in 1981; the station was the first campus based station to be licensed to broadcast legally. A station with a proud broadcast history, RMR has been and still is a pioneer within the campus radio industry in South Africa. RMR is a Youth Lifestyle Radio Station and provides programming that is fun, experimental, challenges the status quo and is informative. RMR continues to provide an educational and practical training ground for some of South Africa’s finest broadcasters. Frequency: 89.7fm Broadcast Times: 24 hours a day Broadcast Languages: English (60%), Xhosa (30%), Afrikaans & other official languages (10%) Broadcast Area: Grahamstown and 50km radius outside of the city Streaming: Worldwide | On Campus

Recent podcast episodes

The Then and Now

In the second episode of Where RU Now? host, Nikita Baloyi, a member of the second-year podcasting class at Rhodes University, introduces us to three stories told by fellow class members Siya Hhlebani, Lance Myburgh and Mihle Mdashe and how they experienced Rhodes University as first years in 2021. This…
Season 1 / Episode 15 18 min

The School of JMS: First year to graduation

In this episode, we hear from people in three different stages of a similar journey. First, the second-year students. Second, is the current graduating class. And lastly, someone who has already graduated from the school of Journalism and Media Studies. Past and present, we hear how the School of Journalism…
Season 1 / Episode 16 16 min

Goal orientated

In this episode of Where RU Now? we hear stories of current second-year students who always had one goal: to study journalism. Although some do not necessarily want to be journalists, studying journalism is one way to become artists in their own right! In this episode, how their roads led…
Season 1 / Episode 17 16 min

The Prelude Before The Story

In the first episode of Where RU Now? member of the 2022 second-year journalism class, Cassandra Scheepers introduces gives us a glimpse at what the School of Journalism and Media Studies have lined up for the 50th-anniversary celebration program, which they celebrate this year. Heads of the School and other…
Season 1 / Episode 1 9 min

The Bottle, The Blackouts, The Breakthrough

In this episode of Makhanda Diaries, Malwande Bhebheza opens up about his years of alcohol abuse how it started, how it took over, and what finally made him stop. Now years clean, he shares the raw reality of addiction in Makhanda and what recovery actually looks like on the ground.
12 Jun 37 min
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