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Mandela Day

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Wondering what you can do for Mandela Day? Here’s Media Monitoring Africa’s suggestion: Spend 67 minutes reading and explaining the news to your children.

It’s a small gesture but it could have a big impact. Not only could it change your child’s approach to the media but you may be surprised at how much your child can teach you!

How can you do this? Simple: do the DRIVE!

Media Monitoring Project becomes Media Monitoring Africa

Yesterday, the Media Monitoring Project rebranded to become Media Monitoring Africa and relaunched their website. The relaunch and rebranding coincides with their 15-year anniversary. The name change represents a realignment of their organisational identity to be more in-line with the work they do.  They have, after all being working in different countries in Africa since 1995. Along with the rebranding, the new website is designed to be more interactive, encouraging greater civil society engagement with media.

More choice, but not anytime soon

The much vaunted pay television wars may not materialise - for the time being at least - with potential competitors of the MultiChoice monopoly unlikely to start broadcasting this year.

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Corridors of power a dangerous place to be at the SABC

The knives are out for Dali Mpofu, the SABC chief executive caught in the crossfire between the corporation’s new board and its management, ostensibly over the performance of the national broadcaster.

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