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- Kuli Roberts’ column scrapped after outcry
Sunday World columnist Kuli Roberts’ weekly offering was axed yesterday after an outcry followed her ‘‘racist” column about coloured people.
Her regular column, Bitch’s Brew, appeared at the weekend under the headline Jou ma se kinders (Your mother’s children).
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- EU, Save the Children plead for children’s rights respect in SA, Zambia media
The European Union (EU), Save the Children, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) , South Africa’s Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and Zambia’s Media Network on Child’s Rights and Development (MNCRD) have this week jointly launched a daring project, ‘Children and Media: Championing Best Practice’, which aims to work with 570 children and 500 journalists to ensure children’s rights are respected in the media, and a more representative and ethical journalism is practised in both countries.
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- Tutu vra Afrika om land te beskerm
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on behalf of civil society organizations in Africa. has called on African governments to protect the people of Libya against the “evil government” of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Tutu accused Gaddafi’s government of working to commit “crimes against humanity”.
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- Media Monitoring Africa calls for Press Council overhaul
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has called on the Press Council of South Africa to make significant changes so that it can better protect consumers against a media that is “dumbing down” readers by favouring titillation and personality politics over democratic issues and development stories.
“The commercial imperative (of the press) does affect our democracy because we know the key imperative there is profit making and therefore you are going to sing to the tune of your advertisers,” said MMA policy head Prinola Govenden.
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- ‘The media must stop violating us’ – children
In a special submission to the Press Council this week, children spoke of how the news media further perpetuates the abuse and violation of children’s rights.
Two primary school children, just one year short of being teen-agers, braved the small crowd of adults at Wits University to speak on behalf of fellow South African children. Their presentation at the start of hearings by the Press Council of South Africa highlighted the mistakes done by the media when covering children who have been abused, raped, harmed physically, emotionally, and so on.
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