A KwaZulu Natal based community radio station Durban Youth Radio popular known as DYR is on the verge of collapse.

The radio station management has came to public about the problems they are facing, the community broadcaster is currently facing financial problems. The station was reported closed three weeks ago as in their frequency modulation 105.1FM it been playing music with no voices of the presenter, it was stated that the station can’t afford to pay their presenters and they need a proper broadcasting equipment.

According to the source DYR was established back in 1990 and it has produced top radio presenters who are popular heard on radio stations like Ukhozi FM, East Coast Radio, Metro FM, GAGASI FM, Vuma FM and others. Among the presenters who are the product of DYR are Khetha Gwala, Lucky Sefatsa, Sthandwa Nzuza, Felix Hlophe, DJ Sgqemeza, Alex Mthiyane, Mandla Magwaza, Penny Ntuli and others.

Sthandwa Nzuza who was produced by Durban Youth Radio 105.1FM and she was taken by Ukhozi FM and later moved to Vuma 103FM before persuading her acting career.

The station manager Mr Miles Vilakazi told the source that it very painful to them and the followers of the station as the radio station is being neglected. “We are struggling even with the broadcasting equipment as the MDDA last sponsored us with equipment in 2007 and when we apply to them now, they keep declining. Now we depend on private sponsorship. We recently left our studios in Glenwood, and a sponsor promised to get us new studios in Devenport Square in Durban,” said Miles Vilakazi telling Daily Sun.