Jazz veteran and music advocate Don Laka has hit out at Lotus FM‚ saying the radio station cannot be excluded from the SABC’s 90% local music quota.Durban-based Lotus FM mainly caters for the needs of the Indian community.Laka‚ who was instrumental in a decision by the SABC earlier this month to increase its local music quota to 90% across all of its 18 radio stations‚ took to his personal Facebook page this week to pen a stinging rebuke aimed at the station‚ saying money from music should not be allowed to flow from South Africa into India."Radio Lotus‚ you can’t be excluded by wanting to play Bollywood music here. We have stopped the out flow of monies to the US‚ UK and now you think that should go to India? We say NOOOOOO! You need to play SA music‚ integrate with other cultures of SA‚ (this) fight was not about bringing Apartheid through the back door‚ but to kill anything related‚" Laka wrote.The post comes in the midst of a turbulent past few weeks for Lotus FM listeners, who ...
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