The NCRF is a national, membership-driven association of community radio stations and support service organizations. Radio station members are independent non-profit CBOs – owned and run by diverse local communities who actively participate in the development of programming activities, for sustainable non-discriminatory local development. The National Community Radio Forum (NCRF), registered as a Section 21 Company not for gain, was formed in 1993 in Orlando, Soweto, in order to lobby for the diversification of the airwaves in South Africa, and to foster a dynamic broadcasting environment in the country through the establishment of community radio stations.