The winner of the second Good Hope FM Campus DJ search was announced on Thursday, 24 March 2011 during the Afternoon Drive with Guy McDonald show on Good Hope FM. Dell Mabunda, studying a BSc MS degree at the University of Stellenbosch is the second winner in the annual competition, and also the second female, to win a one year on-air DJ contract on Good Hope FM. Dell will now undergo a training process and will soon be offered a slot on air where she will present a show.
From mid February this year Good Hope FM gave students at various campuses across the Peninsula the opportunity to win an on-air DJ contract on the station during the second Good Hope FM Campus DJ search.
The aim of this search was to find the best on air DJ from campuses around the city. Campuses that agreed to participate in this search were the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Stellenbosch University, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Cape Town and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Bellville. Students from other independent tertiary institutions and those who had not been able to attend their campus’ search were given another opportunity to enter at the N1 City Shopping Centre.
“Good Hope FM management is continually on the lookout to discover young fresh talent who aspire to be in the broadcasting industry and who can be added to the already dynamic line-up. Many of Good Hope FM’s well established DJ’s like Guy McDonald, Nigel Pierce and Sean O cut their broadcasting teeth on campus radio” says Good Hope FM Programme Manager, Gerard Muller.
The five finalists - Sikhombiso Mangcu (SK) from Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Dominic Neill and Dell Mabunda, both from University of Stellenbosch, Yolanda Pilane from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Julian Wenn from CPUT Bellville battled it out on air in their fight till the bitter end, co-hosting That Radio Show presented by Ebrahiem Inglis (Mondays to Thursdays from 22:00 to 02:00), until the 21st of March.
The process worked the same as in 2010 and any student who considered themselves well versed, informed and conversational, with a pinch of attitude and heaps of enthusiasm was looked at during the visits to the campuses. Each campus was visited over two days. The first day being an open MIC session, where anyone brave enough could try out whilst a panel of judges chose a group of finalists. On day two, the finalists from that venue got to try out again in order for the panel of judges to then choose one person representing their campus in the final, on-air leg of this competition.
“The Good Hope FM Campus DJ search in 2010 was such a huge success and when the worthy winner, Nosipo Tisani from CPUT Cape Town, was selected the station realised that there was so much untapped talent at the various tertiary institutions, that this search had to be made an annual event” says Good Hope FM’s Marketing Manager, Meegan Kieffer.
The aim of this search was again to find the best on air DJ from campuses around the city, and at N1 city for some wild card entries. Dell Mabunda from University of Stellenbosch was the finalist from that venue and is now the worthy winner of the 2011 Good Hope FM Campus DJ Search. The team at Good Hope FM wishes Dell all the best and look forward to hear her on air.
The 2010 winner, Nosipo Tisani from CPUT, will continue to host her show on Good Hope FM and an additional timeslot will be allocated to Dell once she has completed her training.
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