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- The Times demystifies who sugar daddies really make happy
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“Sugar daddies bribing parents of young girls”, (The Times, 30/03/2011, p.6) is an article selected for a GLAD for unpacking and highlighting a phenomenon where children often feel obliged or sometimes forced - including by parents or other family members - to remain in sexual relationships with older men in exchange for gifts and money.
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- Saturday Star sensitively deals with a case of a married Muslim minor.
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Saturday Star gets a GLAD for its sensitive, balanced and informative approach to the pregnancy and marriage of a 15-year-old Muslim girl. The article explained the issues clearly and in the context of existing and pending legislation.
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- Child Protection and Trafficking: Is the Media Telling the Right(s) Story
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Child journalists Khumo Baduza and Khotso Zinhle uncovered some interesting truths about human trafficking and the media.
In the aftermath of the World Cup hype, their documentary seeks to establish a clearer picture of human trafficking and to understand the realities around modern slavery in South Africa.
Khumo and Khotso ask if this is what we’re hearing, reading and seeing in our media, and if not, why not!
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- The Sunday Times aides informed citizenry
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“Mother wins R16m from health MEC” (Sunday Times, 27/02/2011, p7) by Prega Govender gets a GLAD for not only protecting the identity of a child who was a victim of medical negligence but for linking the implications of a seemingly isolated story to broader society.
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- City Press accesses children’s views on HIV.
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The views of children who participated in a roundtable discussion on matters relating to HIV with City Press were published in an article entitled “They think HIV is just a story.” (City Press, 20/02/2011, p.8). The article gets a GLAD for giving learners a voice to speak out on issues they face relating to the epidemic.
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- Daily Sun article: a lesson on how NOT to report on children
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“Love made him kill” (Daily Sun, 15/02/2011, p.12) was unfortunately a lesson on how NOT to report on a child who has witnessed a crime. Daily Sun named a child witness to a violent crime, violating the Criminal Procedure Act, and risked further endangering this child.
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- Children’s voices heard across a number of newspapers.
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A number of articles from different newspapers share a GLAD for interviewing children from different walks of life.
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- Pregnant school girls stigmatised by The Star
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The Star’s approach to covering teenage pregnancy in a school in Limpopo gets a MAD for indirectly identifying some of the girls and for failing to explore the complexities involved.
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- City Press and Fokus highlight the dire situation facing schools in the Eastern Cape
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City Press and SABC’s Fokus get GLADs for accessing children in their exposés on the dire situation at schools in Eastern Cape.
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- January 2011: The month of multiple Children’s Rights Violations by SA Print Media
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During the week 17th - 21st there were so many articles deserving of a MAD that MMA felt compelled to write MEGA MAD - citing articles in The Citizen, Daily Sun, Mail & Guardian, The New Age, Sowetan and The Star for violating children’s rights.
This analysis has been endorsed by Childline and the Centre for Child Law
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