Bay gets ECR thumbs up
Check out the epic live broadcast of the ECR breakfast show in Richards Bay on Friday
ZULULANDERS thronged to the Tuzi Gazi Waterfront in Richards Bay on Friday from where East Coast Radio (ECR) broadcast its three-hour breakfast show live.
The ECR crew revved into northern KZN on Thursday amid much fanfare as 35 bikers escorted the popular radio team from Empangeni to Richards Bay.
Day six of the KZN ECR Breakfast Tour at the local harbour featured a host of activities and interviews, including Zululand Observer Editor Dave Savides being put into the ‘hot seat’ on-air with Darren Maule and Natarah Nadesan.
Introduced as a ‘local legend’, Dave shared a few ‘wild’ stories of his own, including an anaethetised pig, which was prepared for a Christmas Day lunch.
The show then took an exhilarating twist with stunt man Kevin Minter-Brown teaming up with local jet-ski master, Tyron Motzouris, to attempt a ten-metre high jet-ski flip. In the end, they didn’t set a new world record, but they did go as high as five metres – or as Tyron put it, ‘we went high enough to hear Kevin screaming’.
Things then got pretty heated up during Darren’s quest to find the ‘Ultimate Braai Master of Richards Bay’. Three teams battled it out for the title – ‘Richards Braai’ headed by James Landsberg, ‘Shine Bright Like A Braai Man’ with Biren and Shainal Ramchuran and ‘The Ninjas’ led by Chené du Plessis.
After much finger-licking, taste bud taunting and smacking of lips, ECR judges, together with celebrity judge Dawn Dunn, crowned husband-and-wife team ‘Shine Bright Like A Braai Man’ the winners! Biren and Shainal took home R3 000, courtesy of prize sponsors RBCT Charity. The runners-up each won R1 000.
uThungulu District Mayor Thembeka Mchunu also cleared her diary to join the breakfast bunch, while 19-year-old Heidi Dalton, who will represent SA in the Commonwealth Games in road cycling, also dropped in before departing to Scotland.
The live broadcast culminated with the melodic voices of the Birdswood Secondary School choir, while Grantleigh Preparatory School pupil Cheneille Hall scored an impressive 9 out of 10 in the Kid’s Grand Challenge contest.
