by Thinus Ferreira
The community TV station Bay TV (DStv 260) in Port Elizabeth has added QuaranTV as a new weekday edutainment slot prompted by kids staying home during South Africa's Covid-19 national lockdown period.
QuaranTV was added to the Bay TV schedule, started on 8 April 2020, and is broadcast on weekdays at 17:30.
QuaranTV is a joint effort by the Masifunde Learner Development, Masinyusane and United Through Sport. QuaranTV targets primary and high school learners with content ranging from music and visual arts, drama, health, literacy, cooking, sports and meditation.
Fiks Mahola, Masinyusane co-founder, says "All three organisations focus on education and activation of children and youth in their own specific way. To sit at home without being able to work with our learners directly in a phase when they most probably need our assistance, did not feel right. Together we created the idea to launch QuaranTV".
Laura Klapper, programme manager at Masifunde LD, says "We are currently looking at continuing after the lockdown as we feel it's an effective way to reach out to children with limited access to the internet".
"We're looking forward to professionalising our content as we are quite limited in resources due to the lockdown."
