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KAYA 959

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KAYA 959 reflects the lives of the predominantly black, urban listener between the ages of 25 – 49 living in Gauteng. The station broadcasts both music and talk.
KAYA 959 broadcasts in English on the FM frequency signal 95 (Dot) 9,
24 hours a day, seven days a week. The current listenership stands at 515 000 per average day and 897 000 per average 7 days.
The music format offers a diverse and soulful mix of adult contemporary music to smoother sounds like R&B, World Music and Soul and Jazz.
KAYA 959 is a rich mix of music, news, sport and topic-driven features. The core Kaya listener is Afropolitan: a mature, sophisticated, socially conscious individual rooted in heritage. The Afropolitan is a progressive thought-leader who is self-determining, discerning, well-informed and a player in the global environment.

Recent podcast episodes

Impact on POV: Wouter Kellerman

Acclaimed South African flutist and composer, Wouter Kellerman has won his third GRAMMY at the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards for his album Triveni, taking home the honor in the category of Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album. Kellerman joins Phemelo in studio to chat about his journey in music…
10 Feb 3PM 18 min

Summit of regional leaders makes little progress in resolving DRC conflict

The much-anticipated joint summit between the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and East African Community (EAC), which ended on Saturday, failed to agree on concrete measures to address the warfare in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The meeting of leaders from both regions notably refrained from explicitly calling…
10 Feb 3PM 33 min

Ramaphosa fires back at Trump’s executive order

President Cyril Ramaphosa fired back at US President Donald Trump on Saturday, saying “there is no single group that faces persecution” in South Africa, after Trump signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to the country, citing claims of “race-based discrimination” against Afrikaners. “South Africa is a constitutional democracy…
10 Feb 3PM 18 min

Attempts to rescue trapped zama zamas halted at Roodepoort mine

An operation to rescue suspected illegal miners trapped in the disused Rand Leases Gold Mine in Roodepoort has been terminated due to an obstruction. According to Joburg Emergency Services the rescuers went down 70 metres where there is a wooden platform. There is a hole on the platform which leads…
10 Feb 3PM 15 min