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- Daily Sun gets a MAD for indirectly identifying a child witness
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Daily Sun receives a MAD for indirectly identifying a child who testified in court as a witness to the brutal murder of his father.
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- Daily Sun article raises ethical questions and receives MAD
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An article by Daily Sun raises a number of ethical questions and receives a MAD for identifying a child who was a victim of alleged child neglect.
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- Orphans identified by SABC, The Times and The New Age.
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Three orphans living in a scrapped car were directly identified and interviewed when it was clearly not in their best interests, in reports by the SABC, The Times and The New Age.
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- The Citizen’s photograph of a naked girl lacks context
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The Citizen receives a MAD for publishing a photograph portraying a naked girl without clear contextualisation.
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- The New Age accesses a disabled teenager
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The New Age gets a GLAD for its empowering portrayal of a disabled teenager in its article “Disability not an inability for this teenager.”
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- The New Age Raises the Alarm On Abduction and Rape under the guise of “Ukuthwala” Practice
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MMA commends an article by The New Age which raised awareness on the issue of young girls being abducted under the guise of a practice known as “ukhuthwala”.
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- Children protected in Saturday Star article
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An article by Saturday Star receives a GLAD for protecting the identities of children featured in a story about their mother, who was jailed for hiding them in order to protect them from their father, who she claimed sexually abused them.
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- City Press indirectly labels child
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An image published alongside an article in the City Press has been awarded a MAD for indirectly labelling a child as poor.
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- The Best Promoter & Worst Violator of Children’s Rights in SA Print Media (January - March 2011)
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MMA has produced a MAD OAT quarterly report for the first three months of 2011. This report is a qualitative assessment of articles published by mainstream print mediums which, in our view, clearly violated or promoted children’s rights.
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- The Times and Sunday Times identify children in murder case
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Two articles by The Times and Sunday Times identified children in a murder story when it was not in their best interests. They share a MAD for violating their rights including the right to privacy.
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