In a world filled with fake news, it’s hard to imagine that back in the 1970s and 1980s fake news, censorship, and propaganda held an entire country in its grip, turning one race against another. A small team made a difference by starting a pirate radio station to tell the truth. This is the story behind the story of Capital Radio 604.
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Capital radio were great. From Their Milpark studio in Johannesburg just down Empire Rd from Wits, they sponsored us at Voice of Wits with a Reuters link for our news team. We had a ten minute news broadcast every hour of the broadcasting day. Got me in trouble eventually.