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- Invite to: Children – An Election Issue?
There are 19 million children in South Africa
12 million of them live below the poverty line – on less than R570 a month
But are local politicians’ plans for helping our children making the headlines ahead of polling day?
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- Media group tries to rescind access to Terre’Blanche trial
A media monitoring group is trying to rescind an order granting the family of slain rightwing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche access to his trial as it “infringes on the rights of the child”.
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) submitted its application to the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday.
MMA director William Bird said the family and the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging were granted access even though they were not party to an application for access made by the media.
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- ET se familie dalk hoftoegang geweier
A media monitering organisation has attempted to ban the family of murdered AWB leader EugeneTerre’Blanche’s from attending his murder trial, because such access could violate the rights of a minor accused.
Media Monitoring Africa yesterday lodged an application in the High Court.
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- ET-moord: ‘Familie en publiek hoort nie in hof’
The human rights organization Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) yesterday submitted an application in the Pretoria High Court seeking that Mr. Eugene Terre’Blanche’s family members and the public not be allowed attend the trail of his alleged killers.
The murder trial begans on 13 May.
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- MMA’s application on public & family access in the Eugene Terreblanche trail
In the Pretoria High Court Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), represented by the Centre for Child Law (CCL) submitted its application in the Eugene Terreblanche murder trial, seeking to rescind elements of a court order, granting limited access to members of the Terreblanche family and the public.
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- The Children’s News Agency — Journalism now child’s play
South African Children have launched a children’s news agency ...
Entitled, Journalism now child’s play, this article was featured in The Sunday Times, page 10, on 6 March 2011.
Child journalists: Sibonginkosi Dera and Zinhle Tshabalala for Media Monitoring Africa’s The Children’s News Agency
See original article: (scanned insert included — read more)
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- Journalism now child’s play
South African schoolchildren have launched a Children’s News Agency - the first local attempt to distribute news about children, written by children.
The journalists write about the launch for the Sunday Times
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- Good news for child reporters
South African schoolchildren have launched a Children’s News Agency - the first local attempt to distribute news about children written by children.South African schoolchildren have launched a Children’s News Agency - the first local attempt to distribute news about children written by children.
The initiative is backed by the European Union, Save the Children and Media Monitoring Africa.
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- The World Cup and Trafficking – fears, hype & fatigue!
“It is a crisis, it just wasn’t a crisis according to how we as journalists expected it to be. It’s an indictment, it’s a problem with journalists that we follow the pack, and we follow certain stories that are in the news and when it’s out of the news it dies.”
- Khadija Magardi, Senior Journalist“Do I think we acted responsibly? Absolutely. Do I think the NGOs acted responsibly? No. I think there was a lot of fear mongering before the world cup”
- Kevin Ritchie, Editor, Saturday StarThese are some of the insights uncovered by child journalists Khumo Baduza and Khotso Zhile in their documentary, for Media Monitoring Africa’s “Child Protection and Trafficking: Is the Media Telling the Right(s) Story”
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