South Africa: Survivor Lockdown Story - Music Radio Station Strikes a Chord to Bring Harmony Into Storm-Tossed Lives

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Media globally are in crisis, and the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the industry hard. Fine Music Radio, a plucky Cape-Town based community radio station, is attempting to weather the storm through loyal listener support.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." WB Yeats wrote The Second Coming in the aftermath of World War 1, and interesting for our times as the poem is connected to the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. As Covid-19 envelops its tentacles around the globe, the loss of lives, income and normality has kicked us off-centre. So where do we find our balance and seek a positivity bias, without becoming Pollyanna in a mask with blinkers?

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