How we checked KAYA 959
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 4 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Kaya FM broadcasts on 95.9 MHz from Johannesburg and now brands itself on air as Kaya 959, the home of the Afropolitan. It launched in August 1997 as one of the first private commercial radio licences granted in South Africa, and it still runs a deliberate split of roughly sixty per cent music to forty per cent talk. The music is grown-up and rooted in Black South African listening: soul, rhythm-and-blues, jazz, kwaito, old school jams and current chart songs, with Sunday mornings handed to Soulful Sunday presented by Nonn Botha. Programmes go out in English and the signal covers Gauteng, from Pretoria in the north down to Vanderbijlpark and out across the East Rand.
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Kaya 959 official site | 2026 |
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Contact route
a contact page carrying a switchboard telephone and a separate line labelled "Studio Number" for listeners, several department mailboxes (general information, music submissions, PR, community investment), a street address and a post box, plus a WhatsApp click-to-chat number linked from every page
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KAYA 959 | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.kaya959.co.za/contact/
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KAYA 959 | 2026 |
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Music
Adult contemporary soul, rhythm-and-blues, jazz, kwaito and old school hits, with news, sport and topical talk
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Kaya 959 official site | 2026 |
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Language
English
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Kaya 959 official site | 2026 |
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Kind
Studio recordings with live presented shows
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Kaya 959 official site | 2026 |
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Where
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, 95.9 FM
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Kaya 959 official site | 2026 |
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On air
DJ Fresh presents Kaya Breakfast, T Bose The Best T in the City, Andy Maqondwana Feel Good, Glen Lewis with Skhumba Hlope and Kgomotso Meso Drive 959, Gugulethu Mfuphi Kaya Biz, Phemelo Motene Point of View, Mablerh The Upper Room, Brenda Sisane The Jazz Standard
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Kaya 959, Shows and schedule | 2026 |
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Programmes
Kaya Breakfast 06:00-09:00; The Best T in the City 09:00-12:00; Feel Good 12:00-15:00; Drive 959 15:00-18:00; Kaya Biz, the business show; Point of View, current affairs; The Hive; The Upper Room; The Jazz Standard; The Kaya Countdown
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Kaya 959, Shows and schedule | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| homepage url | https://www.kayafm.co.za/ → https://www.kaya959.co.za/ | the stored address kayafm.co.za answers only with a 301 to kaya959.co.za, which is where the station actually publishes |
| title | Kaya FM → KAYA 959 | the station brands itself KAYA 959 throughout its own site, in its logo, its page titles and its own copy; Kaya FM is the name it used before the rebrand |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| the studio number, the switchboard number and the WhatsApp number | all three are real listener routes and the types are the answer here
source |
| the "National Sales Team (JHB)" telephone and the sales mailbox on the same page | that is the advertising desk, not a listener route, and it sits in the same block as the studio line
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| the music-submissions mailbox | it is on kayafm.co.za, the station's superseded domain, which now 301s to kaya959.co.za, so the address may be stale
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| note on naming | the catalogue's homepage www.kayafm.co.za 301s to www.kaya959.co.za and the site brands itself KAYA 959 throughout
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Kaya FM — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.kayafm.co.za/