Labour Community Radio Project

The project consists of a one-hour weekly live show broadcast on approximately 40 community radio stations around the country. It is also being broadcast on various radio stations of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

WWMP provides training to the presenters and producers of these shows. They also provide production support with a weekly CD consisting of an 8-minute feature on the topic of the week, 5-minute labour news review and 3-minute HIV/AIDS insert. The shows are broadcast in 5 South African languages: English, Afrikaans, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, and Sesotho.

Economic Development, Labour

WWMP was formed during September - December 1997, when a collective of labour service organisations carried out a radio pilot project, called Workers World. It consisted of 12 weekly 30-minute slots on Bush Radio, a community radio station, focusing on issues relevant to workers and the labour movement. At the evaluation meeting at the end of the pilot project, participating organisations agreed to set up a semi-independent radio production project, based on the need for radio productions focusing on labour-related issues. WWMP now aims "to be the recognised and desired production house for quality media productions serving the working class and labour."