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Mandela Day

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Wondering what you can do for Mandela Day? Here’s Media Monitoring Africa’s suggestion: Spend 67 minutes reading and explaining the news to your children.

It’s a small gesture but it could have a big impact. Not only could it change your child’s approach to the media but you may be surprised at how much your child can teach you!

How can you do this? Simple: do the DRIVE!

Public Service Broadcasting Bill latest

Thank you to everyone who signed our petitions to extend the deadline for the Public Broadcasting Bill. With the pressure you helped generate, an extension was granted up to January 15, 2010.
However, currently, it seems that the Bill will be going forward without a Parliamentary Review Process. This is despite the submissions by both MMA and the SOS coalition that call for a review based on the fact that the Bill is unconstitutional and vague in its current form. The implications of the comments from the minister appear only to have been picked up by Business Day in yesterday’s edition, otherwise see the original statement.

In this newsletter:  MMA’s response to the PSB Bill, the new media for children’s website and the blog by William Bird about funding and the SABC.

16 Days Special

The 16 Days campaign of no violence against women and children started on Saturday. This special edition newsletter brings a sneak peek at the results of the Zuma rape trial monitoring and last year’s 16 days report. If you wish to do your own monitoring this year, MMP has developed the Monitoring Made Easy software for you to monitor issues of gender.

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