S. African teens fight gun crime with radio broadcast

JOHANNESBURG - Every week a group of bubbly South African teens crowd into a studio to play hip-hop music on their community radio show and trade views on the scourge of neighborhood gun crime.

For them, these are not remote topics. The stories they discuss are devastatingly close to home for the young broadcasters: One reporter's father was shot dead on her birthday, while another is the daughter of a reformed gun-wielding criminal.

The 20-odd teenagers who host Alex FM's weekly Bigger Than Life radio show are determined to help stem the violence that touches so many lives in their densely populated and crime-ridden Johannesburg township of Alexandra.