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Good News for Botswana

Roelf Petersen reports (The Lovebotswana team at the opening of their studio. Roelf Petersen and EW Langer from UCB Africa (2nd and 3rd from right) with Jerry and Jana Lackey (far left)) “UCB Africa is a founding member of Africa by Radio (ABR), a cooperative network of African broadcasters who work together to promote Christian radio [...]

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New UCB Affiliate in Madagascar

UCB Alizes is a new UCB Affiliate in Madagascar. The name “Alizes” refers to the “soft winds”, or “sea breeze” blowing in Madagascar and the surrounding islands. UCB Alizes will function under the UCB African region, with Dr Roelf Petersen as the Regional Director for Africa. Chris-Johan Fourie will be the COO of UCB Alizes. He [...]

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Lerato House (House of Love)

Our UCB Africa associate in Maun, Botswana is Jerry Lackey and his lovely wife Jana. They are the founders of Love Botswana Outreach Mission. Years ago, they adopted an abandoned, newborn baby girl that was left on the banks of the nearby river to die. Mapula (rain) is now eight years old and a blessing [...]

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In September UCB Africa joined Christian broadcasters from across the continent for the Africa by Radio conference in Johannesburg. Ninety five broadcasters attended this first ever and very successful convention. UCB Africa sponsored representatives of their 5 associates in Africa (Madagascar, Nigeria, Mozambique, Botswana and Radio Alpha in SA.). UCB’s partner organization, Radio Pulpit, also [...]

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In the wake of our previous report dated 1 April 2008 we are delighted to announce the following news received from the Omwiwa Yesu Management Committee in Gurue, Mozambique: The local community radio station extended an invitation to the committee to increase the broadcasting times of three days per week to six days per week [...]

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This past weekend I was one of the fortunate who was able to attend the Mighty Men conference on the Shalom farm near Greytown. Many have asked me about it, and you may be one of these, or you may be someone who I thought would be interested to hear about the experience. A few [...]

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A report from UCB Africa

Gurue Radio ministries, Mozambique launched their Christian radio production on air in November 2007. Now there are 3X30 minute Christian programmes on air per week – the first of its kind. Feedback is that their programmes have received the most written reaction of all programmes, in the form of letters to the station manager. The [...]

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(Surisa Nel, Communication Manager and Lucky Mbiko, Programme Manager of Radio Pulpit with the PanSALB Award) Radio Pulpit received the PANSALB (Pan South African Language Board) for multilingualism and nation building of the decade in electronic media this weekend. PANSALB was established through an Act of parliament mainly to promote multilingualism in South Africa and [...]

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This community radio station has applied for a name change (originally Radio Isis) and is financially supported by some of Radio Pulpit’s listeners, through UCB Africa. These finances are used to produce Christian programmes, with the result that they are now broadcasting no less than 8 Christian programmes per month. The abovementioned financial assistance also makes [...]

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Radio Pulpit is a Christian radio station for the people of South Africa. Apart from our vision to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to everybody in our country in the language of their home we are also aware of the realities of today’s life. We have identified social issues that we tackle head on, [...]

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(picture of downtown Gurue, a community we broadcast to) Hi everyone, The good news is that after a struggle of more than a year (due to distances, red tape, African time etc) the first broadcasts were launched in November 2007 on the airwaves of the Gurue Community station. Our partner/affiliate in Gurue is now buying [...]

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