RC 260806SAfmBridget Masinga
Thursday, 6 August 2026
SAFM’s 90th-anniversary airtime was packed with listener tributes, with brief serious talk on unemployment, graduate absorption and possible electoral reform.
- 00:52
Listeners across the country sent repeated 90th-birthday tributes, praising SAFM for decades of informing, educating and connecting generations through credible journalism and meaningful conversations.
- 02:40
One business-and-jobs comment said unemployment is still rising while graduates keep coming through, but the business sector is not growing and government is not injecting enough support to absorb them.
- 02:52
A political analysis said the ANC had opposed introducing a constituency system while it had parliamentary majority, but losing that majority could now open the door to the reform.