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SPEAK MJITA GALA DINNER HOPES TO END GBV By Quincy Mahlangu Patrick Shai (Photo: Gallo Images). Credit: Son
POPULAR event promoter Muzi Nkosi is set to host the inaugural event of his much-anticipated Speak Mjita gala dinner.
The gala dinner, set to take place in June, will see actor Patrick Shai and Radio Bop presenter Hector Motau talking about topics that contribute to gender-based violence.
These burning issues will be discussed over a three-course meal at the Idle Winds Conference Centre.
Speaking to Daily Sun, Muzi said he has had the idea of the gala dinner for years.
“Most people are looking at gender-based violence at face value. They’re not looking at the root cause of the problem, and that’s what the event is aimed at finding – the root cause of men being abusive and how we can deal with it to ensure an end of this epidemic,” he said.
One photo from a place you can hear NCPR. But do you know where it is? Photo: Mitch Teich
Apr 24, 2021
If I haven’t mentioned it before, this is actually the second time I’ve lived in the North Country and worked at NCPR. I was a reporter here from 1996-1998. And when friends and colleagues I’ve collected in the years since ask why I came back here, I can point to the interactions I have with people in the community who tell me they remember me from those days in the mid-‘90s, including, yes, that famous Ice Storm of 1998. (You know it’s a famous storm when you can use capital letters.)
COVID KILLS VETERAN RADIO HOST! Quincy Mahlangu
Comments Veteran radio host Grant Shakoane’s death has saddened many people. Photo by Gallo Images/Oupa Bopape.
VETERAN radio host Grant Shakoane is no more.
He died at Sunninghill Hospital in Joburg on Thursday, 22 April due to Covid-19 related complications.
He was 82 years old.
Family spokesman Alex Shakoane told Daily Sun the family was saddened by his death.
“Although he has not been feeling well for some time, his passing has cut deep.
“We’ve lost someone we will never be able to replace.
“Grant was one of a kind. He brought us together as a family, made us laugh and realise the importance of family,” he said.
Your correspondent, visiting one of NCPR s unique transmitter sites in 1998. Photo: Bob Sauter
Apr 17, 2021
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You’re going to hear that phrase a lot over the next couple of weeks at NCPR. It’s the theme around which we’re building our Spring Fundraiser, and well, that means we’re going to say it a lot. When it comes to fundraising time, we try to find a theme that a) is true, and b) is short, to the point, and easy to say on the radio. It’s why we’ve never built a fundraising campaign that goes “NCPR: Because you enjoy the news, and interviews, and sometimes the Rolling Stones or Afro-Caribbean hip-hop, and also Brahms while you are sleeping.” It would take a