News - Media Release
- Leadership Crisis at the SABC
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is deeply concerned by the ongoing governance crises at the SABC. The crises seemed to climax in 2007, however despite various attempts to bring stability we seem to be little further than where we were some three years ago, in terms of fundamentally addressing corporate governance issues. MMA believes that the appointment of the GCEO should be made by the SABC board alone.
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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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- Are a man’s dying moments appropriate for page 1?
The media is to be commended in focusing citizens’ attention on a case of police brutality which resulted in the death of a man, by leading news bulletins with reports of this incident, and by reporting it on their front pages.
What is of concern to MMA is that some newspapers chose to publish a front page image of Andries Tatane’s dying moments as he lay in the arms of a man, who was clearly stricken with grief.
MMA’s position is not that violent or traumatic images should never be published, but that if they are, this is as a result of measured consideration, and that the reasons for publishing such an image should be explained.
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- SABC: Violence Exposed, Ethics Ignored
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) welcomes the decision by SABC to give such prominence and attention to the death of a citizen following an incident of police brutality. Nevertheless MMA is concerned about discrepancies in how the story was reported.
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- ANCYL: The Value of Vitriol?
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) condemns in the strongest possible terms the statement issued by the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in which it dismissed allegations of hate speech against spokesperson Floyd Shivambu that are currently before the Equality Court as “lies and false.”
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