TRUTH RADIO

Truth Radio (formerly known as P.R.S.1) was launched in August 1999 with just a portable CD-walkman. Initially programmes were produced by outside volunteers and broadcast live at night to some 1,700 juvenile offenders in Pollsmoor Prison.

In 2004 our broadcasts were extended to all 7,000 offenders in Pollsmoor and we enrolled our first intake of offender students in RADIO PRODUCTION. They then became the main presenters of TRUTH RADIO thus enabling us to provide programmes BY offenders FOR offenders.

But the skills they learnt did much more than teach them to be radio jocks. It built their confidence, enhanced their reading and writing abilities, and gave them a voice - much needed elements for healing, restoration and hope. Life-skills training, ministry and counselling accompanied all our training programmes as we believe that true rehabilitation cannot be achieved purely by teaching skills.

In 2007 we installed an internet server to broadcast our radio programmes to every prison in the country and even globally but as we never managed to get permission from Correctional Services, this never got off the ground.

The radio station has been off-air for the past 3 years due to an irrepairable intercom system. Fortunately, we launched our television division in the same year that the intercom system went down and our focus has been entirely on television production and broadcasting ever since.

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