Singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka launches a women-led radio station
Yvonne Chaka Chaka [Photo: Courtesy]
The Princess of Africa Yvonne Chaka Chaka has established an all women-led online radio station. The legendary
Umqombothi songbird, entrepreneur and humanitarian now owns
WOMan Radio, a station that is seeking to create opportunities for women in the media, provide a voice - a social safe space to raise issues important to them, and unearth talent.
According to
IOL, Chaka Chaka mooted the idea in 2016 but shelved the project until 2018 when she revived her dream following encouragement from South Africa’s Minister of Communications Thembisile Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams who advised her to try her hand in digital radio communications.
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Johannesburg - WOMan Radio was a concept Yvonne Chaka Chaka came up with in 2016.
In 2018 she researched various ways to bring the project to life and ended up going the online route after getting encouragement from several people, including Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams.
âData is not cheap in South Africa, but she (Stella) said my reach is beyond South Africa and I thought that was a great idea. We then launched, I got the licence on IOS and Android.â
The women-led online radio station officially launched in October and this week a billboard was revealed in Joburg South with the help of the Joburg metro.