History of South African Media By Kholo Mothoa 1916 The launch and first issue of the Huisgenoot magazine 1919 The beginning of the establishment of radio in South Africa 1924 The first regular broadcasts took place in Johannesburg 1927 The African Broadcasting Company(ABC) was formed 1936 The South African Broadcasting Corporation was formed to resolve technological difficulties of Broadcasting to the whole of South Africa 1948 The introduction of news services took place 1949 Programing for Black listeners was introduced in three of the biggest languages in South Africa, namely, seSotho, isiZulu and isiXhosa 1960 Frequency Modulation (FM) was introduced 1962 African language services aimed at Black listeners came into being with the introduction of FM transmissions 1971 The introduction of Television came into being 1981 The nationalisation of Broadcasting 1986 Subscription television services such as M-Net was introduced Period: 1992 to 2000 The beginning of community radio and a period of restructuring
