MEDIA STATEMENT | LIGWALAGWALA FM REVAMPS SHOWS
Nelspruit – Wednesday, 31 March 2021 – Ligwalagwala FM is pleased to announce that listeners can expect some changes to the programme line up, mainly on the midday and graveyard shows this year. Up the sleeve is a couple of presenter shifts aimed at bringing some flair into the on-air offering of Mpumalanga’s leading radio station.
This year, the station is introducing automation from (00h00 – 04h00 Monday to Friday and 00h00 – 05h00 on weekends). The shift to automation has necessitated an adjustment to the lengths on some shows.
New changes will see Sweet-Mike bidding farewell to the Midday Show (12h00 – 15h00) to present the programme
Mpumalanga listeners of the isiSwati radio station Ligwalagwala FM are up in arms over the impending retrenchments at the SABC. They are threatening a repeat of their protest against the public broadcaster that saw popular breakfast show host, Dumisani “Madumane” Simelane, reinstated in January after it had been announced that he would be retrenched.
The SABC has said it will cut 397 jobs nationally because of financial problems.
When Simelane announced his last show on air in January, the public outcry that followed forced the SABC management to reinstate him.
The Mpumalanga listeners this week claimed that the retrenchments would collapse Ligwalagwala FM because many experienced staff are facing the axe.