South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Nelson Mandela Bay Christian radio station Kingfisher FM this week shared with listeners the good news that it has heard from the licensing authority ICASA that it is one of only two of 142 applicants nationwide to have made it into the second phase of the current community radio stations […]
Praise the Lord! Even in the midst of hopelessness, we are assured that God is the one who changes our hearts. Overwhelmed by the magnitude of brokenness in the world, Goli Kalou of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, had decided to take her life and that of her son. However, God sent […]
Nelson Mandela Bay Christian radio station Kingfisher FM this week celebrated 21 years of broadcasting. “Kingfisher FM has so much to be grateful for and so many people to thank from one of the founders Manie Steyn to current head of our board Wouter van der Westhuizen. In short we […]
Radio broadcasts are set to add a new dimension to the Karoo Mighty Men Conference 2016 (KMMC 2016). In the past KMMC has had access to radio frequencies to broadcast translations of the speakers’ messages from Afrikaans to English and isiXhosa or visa-versa. However, this year plans are to expand […]
Originally published in Christian Examiner Situated on the fertile banks of the Tigris River, the capital city of Iraq has a rich cultural and economic history. The same fertile soil which birthed civilization is now harvesting a violent breed of terrorism geared especially toward Christians. The fertile soil has also […]
Staff of the international media organization TWR joined churches, partners and other friends on Friday (October 31) to celebrate four decades of broadcasting from the ministry’s powerful transmitter complex in Swaziland. The main gathering was at the transmitter site itself near Manzini, Swaziland. A simultaneous celebration at Croydon Baptist Church was […]
A new Port Elizabeth Christian-based community radio station, PE FM, will start broadcasting from 6am on Monday (September 3) on 87.6FM. Education and empowerment are at the heart of the station which will have a special focus on “raising the next generation of wise and godly citizens who will shun […]
Close on twenty thousand online listeners, indicating 150 000 traditional listeners – this is the latest figure released for Nelson Mandela Bay based niche-caster, Kingfisher FM.‘Last month they had 19 840 unique listeners on audio streaming’, said Chris Grant of the NetDynamix Group in an independent report. ‘These listeners have […]
The residents of Nelson Mandela Bay and surrounds can look forward to something fresh on their radios, as Kingfisher FM rolls-out its brand new 2012-schedule. ‘Our intention is to improve the quality of our service all the time’, said Xandre van der Berg, the station’s program manager. ‘We have quite […]
Earlier this week, at a dinner function in trendy Richmond Hill, Port Elizabeth, Kingfisher FM’s new board of directors was announced. The new board consists of prominent local business-people, some of whom have been coming alongside the radio station for quite some time, hoping to add value as the station […]