UWC student Mihle Ngxishe with the team from Good Hope FM and the judges of the Campus Search Competition, which Mihle Ngxishe won. Picture supplied.The competition's judges scouted university campuses across the Western Cape last year. But at the end of August 2024, confetti rained down on Ngxishe when she was crowned the Good Hope FM Campus Search winner.
The prize includes the once-in-a-lifetime chance to receive training, with the opportunity for her to join the Good Hope FM on-air team. Ngxishe said she has been working hard since starting her commercial radio career.
“It’s been very exciting and nerve-racking at the same time. Learning a new system, moving from campus radio (Udubs Radio) and training commercial. A lot of things are different, like the structure and set-up,” said Ngxishe.
Not daunted by the challenge, she interviewed Good Hope FM Breakfast Show host Stan Mars on World Radio Day (13 February), but she has also been very lucky to be a guest at the radio station’s most prestigious awards: “I had the honour of attending the Warrior Women Awards. It was a month after the win. Just sitting and observing and being in a space with so many iconic people, I was excited that I could be in a space that was so inspiring.”
She rushes between the radio studios in Sea Point and the UWC Main Campus in Bellville. But it is worthwhile: “At the beginning of the year, I gave them (the radio station management) my schedule, and there are no clashes because they were able to work around my academic schedule. But there is a stress in that immediately after finishing training at the station, I have to rush back to campus.”
Ngxishe is equally motivated about her academics and broadcasting and maintains that working hard to achieve excellence in both is the pathway to her success.
