News - Media Release
- Rape is crime, play your part in reducing the harm
There has been a significant public outcry over the recent case of a girl being gang raped and the rape being filmed. The story appeared in the Daily Sun on Wednesday 18 April 2012 and was picked up by mainstream media shortly thereafter, with talk shows focusing on the issue as well. In addition to the brutality of the crime, Media Monitoring Africa believes that there are other key issues, outlined in this press release, that need to be considered.
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- Invitation to Children’s Rights Seminar on last day of Media Freedom Week
Media Monitoring Africa invites you to a seminar to be held at the Mail & Guardian offices in Rosebank. We ask, Does upholding Children’s Rights Compromise Media Freedom?
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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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- 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 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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