The Greenville Market Women’s Association came to the studio on Thursday. They had a list — eight items, each one specific. Daily stall fees. Storage charges. The cleaning levy. The locked-toilet problem. The water tap that has not worked for six months.
For 90 minutes they put each item to the county leadership on air. Listeners called in. Some agreed, some pushed back. The Superintendent of Markets stayed on the line for the full hour.
By the end of the broadcast, three things had been agreed: the cleaning levy would be reviewed within two weeks, the toilet block would be unlocked starting the next day, and the water tap would be inspected on Monday. We will check each of those on Tuesday.
A community radio works when it does this — turns a conversation that would happen anyway into one that gets recorded, witnessed, and followed up.
