By Aneeqa du Plessis “The time has come!” The excitement is mounting as the biggest cultural event on the social calendar beckons, this year the VOC Summer Festival 2023 will be bigger and better than ever before. Speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show earlier this week, Sales and Marketing Representative Mugamad Zain Majiet announced that the festival is set to take place from the 1st December until the 3rd December 2023. […]
After a three-year hiatus, the picturesque town of Paarl is set to host the 21st Boland Festival next month. This comes after the crowd-pleaser was forced to take a leave of absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. However, the festival will return bigger and better than ever. These are the words of Convener Yoesrie Abrahams, Festival Convener & Member of the Paarl Muslim Jamah (PMJ). “We are pulling […]
VOC's biggest community event, the VOC Summer Festival 2016, was a resounding success with thousands of festival-goers attending the event over the three days. Organisers estimate that 20 000 people supported the event this past weekend, mostly families who seek an environment where there is clean fun. The festival brought together a myriad of local food traders, artisans, clothing designers, jewellery and toy vendors as well as local businesses - giving shoppers a wide range […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
