A complaint was lodged regarding the broadcast of certain music tracks by YFM on 07 June 2025, during the programme All Girls On Deck with DJ Fae Fae. The core of the complaint is that the songs aired at approximately 18h38 and 19h11 allegedly glorify cannabis use and alcohol abuse, and thus constitute harmful content [...]

Presenter’s use of language that is inappropriate. CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT 

A complaint was received that YFM, a radio station under the BCCSA’s jurisdiction, broadcast a song with an obscene word in it and that the song was, accordingly, harmful to children.  The BCCSA Tribunal held that the respondent should be afforded the benefit of the doubt. A broadcaster should, however, steer a course clear of [...]

Complaint about the playing of the “Julius Malema Hit Parade” promo on 16 April 2010, as having been tantamount to hate speech. CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION    

This is an appeal against a decision by a commissioner who adjudicated the complaint.  The complaint was directed against the broadcast of a song in which the words “Shoot the Boer” are audible – though barely so.  Commissioner finding that song amounted to hate speech and that there was incitement to cause harm.  The Tribunal [...]

A presenter of the Respondent radio station derisively referred to gay sex by playing an insert where people discussed, inter alia, the eating of faeces and the pain-inducing insertion of a fist into the anus of a sexual partner. The Tribunal held that the latter amount to a description of violent sex. The complaint was [...]

The use of the word “dyke” degrading in the context of a programme whose content was unsuitable for children. [2011] JOL 27253 (BCCSA) CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION  

The complaint in the present matter relates to a broadcast on YFM on 31 October 2008. The complaint pertains to three segments of the DJ Sbu Breakfast Show in which the presenter, a weekly guest DJ and various callers made comments about a newspaper article the first complainant had written about the suicide of DJ [...]

YFM radio station, on the 16 April 2008, during the afternoon drive show called Essential Rush, broadcast a joke from a listener which says that Jesus, after breaking bread and drinking wine with his disciples during the last supper, said to them that “one of you is going to betray me” and Judas replied by [...]

In this case we deal with a complaint by Cassandra Gudlhuza who describes herself as a social journalist of the Sunday Times.  In her weekly column she wrote some derogatory remarks about “Chilli M” of Yfm.  The next day the said “Chilli M” in his “Essential Rush Show” reacted to this and broadcast some insulting [...]