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- Cockroach comment “doomed” says MMA
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) believes that Julius Malema’s comparison of Premier Helen Zille to a cockroach is offensive, inappropriate and grossly insensitive given the word’s use and hideous connotations during the genocide in Rwanda, where it was used to incite the killing of Tutsis.
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- Talking the talk – but does Cwele really mean it? MMA is not convinced.
In making his second submission to a parliamentary committee on the Protection of Information Bill, Minister of State Security Siyabonga Cwele defended the proposed legislation as being in line with the South African Constitution, International Human Right’s Charters and Conventions and international best practice. Regrettably Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) remains unconvinced and here’s why.
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- Secrets and shadows, MMA responds to Cwele
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele has narrowed the scope of the Protection of Information Bill, but key elements of the legislation remain of concern to Media Monitoring Africa (MMA).
Minister Cwele addressed Parliament’s ad-hoc committee on the Protection of Information Bill. MMA welcomes the Minister’s acknowledgement that “national interest” and “commercial interest” should be removed as reasons for the classification of information as “secret”. However MMA questions why information that is protected under Copyright law for example, will continue to be classified as a matter of “national security”? Such an approach errs on the side of secrecy rather than openness.
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- Addressing the state of the media
Following President Mbeki’s state of the nation address, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) would like to add the following state of the media in South Africa observations. In line with the MMP’s mandate we looked at a number of human rights issues and their relationship to the media. These include press freedom, race and racism, gender, HIV and AIDS, children, and the local government elections.
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- Media Monitoring Project’s Wishlist for the Presidents State of the Nation Address
Dear Mister President,
We at the MMP submit the following wishes for the State of the Nation Address on Friday.
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