News - MMA in the Media
- Questions over handling of Jules High rape case
Legal experts were surprised to find that the latest news about the in camera hearing of the 15-year-old Jules High School girl who was allegedly gang-raped was leaked to the press.
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- Hearings - now wait and see
Hearings on the proposed new Public Service Broadcasting Bill took place this week in Johannesburg this week. Media organisations such as SOS: Support Public Broadcasting, the South African chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa-SA) and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) all called for a full policy review of the Bill in terms of public broadcaster SABC and community media.
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- No-show Icasa leaves others to speak up for its powers
THE Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), which regulates broadcasting, has been conspicuous by its absence from a two-day hearing on the proposed Public Service Broadcast Bill, despite a consensus that the bill undermines the regulator’s role and cedes its power to the minister.
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- Unease grows over 1% tax for SABC
Broadcast industry players rejected a proposed 1% tax to fund the SABC, expressing reservations that the proposed fund will be run by the MDDA.
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- Media roundtable addresses online gender-based violence
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa and APC Women co-hosted a media roundtable entitled ‘Click against violence: taking 16 days of activism online’, to discuss online gender-based violence and resources available to cover the issue.
According to IPS Africa, the United Nations estimates 95% of aggressive behaviour, harassment, abusive language and denigrating images in online spaces are aimed at women and come from partners or former male partners. Other surveys show that the victims of cyber-stalking are predominantly female.
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