MFM

This is one of the quieter entries in South Africa's listing, at 85 of 100. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

MFM broadcasts in Afrikaans from South Africa, one of 12 stations there that do. The country's dial is mostly English, so these 12 entries are a minority language cluster inside a national listing rather than the listing itself.

Afrikaans is not large enough in this snapshot to have a shelf of its own here, so the station's only index is its country. Shelves are built from the directory's commonest broadcast languages and the line has to fall somewhere; below it, the country hub is the route.

Among 100 stations in South Africa here, this is the only one that puts maties first. The maties rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The audio comes from edge.iono.fm, and 27 other stations in South Africa are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of South Africa's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.