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- SABC board candidates under review
MORE than 84 nominations for the four vacant SABC board posts have been received by Parliament.
A short list was expected by the second of next month , secretary of the portfolio committee on communications, Alma Nel, said yesterday.
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- Right2Know campaign plots way forward, Secrecy Bill under pressure
After fighting raucous and noisy battles with the South African government in the past three months over the Protection of Information Bill, aka Secrecy Bill, the Gauteng branch of Right2Know campaign - a consortium of 400 civil society organisations and 1100 individuals - is meeting today, Wednesday, 8 December 2010, in Newtown, Johannesburg, to redefine its future plans and sharpen its spears as it prepares to take its struggle to the next level in 2011.
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- Call for more action on reporting on children
Media Monitoring Africa’s report, ‘Children’s Views not in the News; Portrayal of Children in South African Print Media: June, July and August 2010’, was released yesterday, Monday, 6 December 2010.
MMA has been monitoring and analysing print media’s performance in terms of how it reports on children since 2003 and has seen that the percentage of articles featuring children has almost doubled.
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- Surprise over public access to Terre’Blanche trial
Advocacy groups have expressed surprise at Judge Joseph Raulinga’s decision to allow members of the public and members of the Terre’Blanche family to view the testimony of the teenager alleged to have been involved in the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche, via closed-circuit television (CCTV).
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- ET murder trial ruling welcomed by editors
The SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has welcomed a ruling that allows the media and members of the public to witness proceedings in the trial of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s alleged killers in Ventersdorp.
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