African language radio stations are now putting their content on new and social media.
This is where you can get Umhlobo Wenene fm news if you’ve missed them: http://t.co/LHM3Fwqigp #SABCEC pic.twitter.com/ZXmV3kP117
— Lungisa nogcazi (@LungisaNogcazi1) May 12, 2015
The South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) has an obligation to broadcast in all South African languages but their online information and news has traditionally mainly if not always been in English.
In April, Umhlobo Wenene FM, SABC Xhosa radio station, began making their hourly news bulletins and current affairs content available on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and SABC news website in Xhosa.
Umhlobo Wenene FM Indaba / news bulletins, 25 Jun 25 06 15 06H00 http://t.co/coCCecxiqT
— Masibulele Twalindwe (@MTwalindwe) June 25, 2015
SABC’s Lungisa Nogcazi and Izak Minnaar gave a presentation on this new project at Radio Days Africa conference, presently been hosted by the Wits Radio Academy. Nogcazi said that the aim is to make African language content available on social media. “
We put content in standard Xhosa but (contributors) can use their social media language to comment,” Nogcazi said.
SABC’s #IzakMinnaar talking on growing the African language web by using new and social media #radiodaysafrica2015 pic.twitter.com/32dFShQg0z
— Samantha Camara (@samlcamara) July 2, 2015
Thus far Umhlobo Wenene is the only non-english SABC radio station doing presently making their content available on social media.
A correction has been made to the original article which had Lungisa Nogcazi’s name spelt incorrectly as Lungisa Nongcasa.
