Uhambo Lolwimi

Shedding Light season 2 is a hard news podcast that addresses social issues. In this week's Pilot episode. The new anchor, Mohau Vuma interview Mzomvelo, a technician from season one and Sean McCabe the Executive producer about the challenges starting a hard news podcast. She also interviews Nobuhle Mathaba and Sean about the Rhodes Music Radio Repositions plan.

For the past three episodes the team has been focussing on the different problems in Makhanda, but all these problems have a common denominator- municipal failure. In episode four Kgaogelo Makgoba speaks to Amanda Nhlaki and the director of Makhanda’s Local Economic Development and Planning, Riana Meiring.

In episode five, Kgaogelo speaks to Sue Maclennan, editor of Grocotts Mail and Director of Local Economic Development and Planning, Riana Meiring, about the issues facing Makhanda Municipality and potential solutions for these issues which have led to the breakdown in Makhanda’s infrastructure.

Kgaogelo Makgoba speaks to Dr Phillip Machanick and Edward Everton about the electricity problems in Makhanda and how Makhanda citizens can overcome these problems

Kgaogelo Makgoba speaks to student Chloe Osmond, a Makhanda resident and Rhodes student, about her experience of living in a town where the maintenance of roads have ceased to operate. She then speaks to Ron Weissenberg from Makana Revive about what can be done.

In this episode, we tackle the water shortage in Grahamstown. Our studio guests are two people on very different sides of this problem; Savanna Stanbury shares her experience of living the water crisis, and Mr. Moppo Mene, Municipal Manager of Makana Municipality talks about how the problem is being addressed.

This is the last episode in preparation of the podcast series. Here the team outlines their plans for their series, finalising the concept, choosing the content, their approach to format and the name of their podcast. They address how their podcast will be fitting for the community radio station it is broadcast on, Rhodes Music Radio in Makhanda of the Eastern Cape.

In this episode, the focus of discussion is on the principles of conducting an interview. Members share their experiences of interviewing and how they will use this knowledge to inform the interviews they conduct for their podcast series.

In this episode, the content producers of this podcast are sharing their initial ideas for a podcast. They discuss their listening experiences of podcasts and which they would like to emulate in their work