Radio ownership continues to show a sharp decline in the country, the Census 2022 results released on Tuesday, 10 October, revealed.
Radio has long been popular in South Africa owing to its easy accessibility and the availability of the country’s 11 official languages.
The 2022 census revealed that the country’s population increased from 51.7 million in 2011 to 62 million in 2022, and the government is increasingly finding it difficult to provide basic services that are reliable and face no major disruptions to the populace.
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This year marked 100 years since radio was introduced to South Africa through an experimental radio broadcast by the Western Electric Company. Since then, radio has been central in the development of cultural identities…
