Motheo FM is a community radio station based in the Free State, broadcasting out of a studio in Heidedal, Bloemfontein. It is a small operation and publishes exactly one telephone number and one mailbox, both of which reach the station directly rather than a call centre.
Official contact channels
- Station telephone: 069 846 5476
- Station manager: [email protected]
- Studio address: Shop 33, Twincity Mall, Heidedal, Bloemfontein, 9300
- Advertising enquiries: the advertise form on the station website
The number is a mobile line rather than a landline, which is normal for a community station where the same phone travels between the studio and outside broadcasts. The mailbox is addressed to the station manager as a post rather than to a named person, so it should survive a change of staff.
Third-party directories list other numbers for Motheo FM, including an 086 share-call line. Those are not published by the station on its own site and are not repeated here. Use the number above.
What this organisation provides
Motheo FM is a community broadcaster rather than a commercial one, which shapes both what it airs and how it can be approached. Its published programme format is 40 percent talk and 60 percent music, a talk share well above what most commercial music stations carry, and it broadcasts in five languages: English, Sesotho, isiXhosa, Setswana and Afrikaans.
Its published coverage reaches well beyond Bloemfontein and across a large part of the central Free State, taking in Botshabelo, Brandfort, Bultfontein, Dewetsdorp, Glen, Theunissen, Winburg, Ladybrand, Hobhouse, Wepener, Excelsior, Tweespruit, Edenburg, Jagersfontein, Trompsburg, Smithfield and Boshof among others. That footprint is the reason it matters to advertisers and to anyone trying to reach small Free State towns that larger stations do not target.
The station also runs a website presence with shows, presenters, podcasts, news, events and competitions. Competition entries and show requests generally go through the station social channels or the on-air line rather than through the station manager mailbox, which is better kept for business that needs a written record.
Address and operating information
The studio is at Shop 33 in Twincity Mall, Heidedal, Bloemfontein, 9300. No broadcasting hours, office hours or on-air studio line are published separately from the single number above.
That absence is worth planning around. A community station is often unstaffed outside programming hours, and one number covers administration, advertising and general enquiries alike. If a call is not answered, email is the more reliable route, and it leaves a record that a call does not.
Support and escalation routes
Start with the station manager, who at a station this size is the effective escalation point as well as the first one. Put anything substantive in writing so there is a record of what was raised and when.
Two bodies sit above the station and they cover different things. Community radio in South Africa is licensed by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, which handles licensing and regulatory compliance, including whether a station is broadcasting within the terms of its licence. Complaints about what was actually broadcast, such as content that was offensive, inaccurate or unfair, are dealt with by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa rather than by the regulator.
Approach the station first in either case. Both bodies will ask whether you raised the matter with the broadcaster and what response you received, and a complaint about a specific broadcast will need the date and approximate time it went out.
Sources
- motheofm.co.za contact page, for the telephone number, station manager mailbox and studio address
- motheofm.co.za about page, for the community station status, the coverage areas, the five broadcast languages and the talk to music format split
- motheofm.co.za advertise page, for the advertising enquiry route
All contact details on this page were read from the station own website and verified on 2 September 2026.