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On a weekly basis, Media Monitoring Africa elects and writes about stories which violate or support child’s rights in the news. Read more.
- The Star sees children as entrepreneurs
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Without doubt the article, “Children club starts anti-crime campaign” which appeared in The Star., (30/11/2007, p.5) receives the glad rating because of how it reports on children. It presents children as responsible citizens who take charge of forming a campaign whose aim is to help heal Soweto of crime. The article challenges the common portrayal of children as victims of crime, who are also vulnerable and in need of protection. It does this by showing children, instead, as people who are doing something to tackle it.
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- Children shown as responsible citizens
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Without doubt the article, “Children club starts anti-crime campaign” which appeared in The Star (30/11/2007, p.5) receives the glad rating because of how it reports on children. It presents children as responsible citizens who take charge of forming a campaign whose aim is to help heal Soweto of crime. The article challenges the common portrayal of children as victims of crime, who are also vulnerable and in need of protection. It does this by showing children, instead, as people who are doing something to tackle it.
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- An initiative that shows pupils and schools achieving excellence
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The Times is displaying great innovation in providing a conduit for schools and pupils to share their positive experiences. In the series of “My School Project” articles (2007), The Times regularly gives schools, education programmes and pupils the opportunity to share their stories, highlighting the achievements of young people and their capacity to excel and effect positive change. The Times should be commended for taking this approach.
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- City Press commended for promoting children’s welfare
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The article in City Press, “How to cope with stress of matric exams” (21/10/07, p. 39) is one to be glad of, and should be highly commended. It brings attention to and promotes the interests of children, accesses expert sources, includes children’s contributions, and adopts a responsible approach to children’s welfare.
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- Article on failed government programmes on children
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The article “Pupils starve as feeding programme collapses” that featured in City Press (7/10/07, p.12), is a reason to be glad, because it draws attention to the way in which the failure of Government in implementing the feeding scheme impacts on children’s wellbeing. The highlighting of this failure promotes the interests and rights of children.
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- Issues on safety in schools
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24/09/2007, 3.48 PM
The article “Pupils take sides in aftermath of tragic KES stabbing”, by Angelique Serrao and Alex Eliseev in The Star (20/09/07, p.3) is one to be glad about because it focuses on the much publicized issue of violence in schools and opens it up to wider discussion.
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- Educating readers about statutory rape
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18/09/2007, 4.04 PM
The article “Teen impregnated by father’s best friend”, by Surentha Govender, which appeared in the Sunday Times (p.6) on 16 September 2007, provides a number of reasons to be glad. The main reasons that this article is one that we should be glad about are that it provides a context to the story; it provides very useful information regarding the issue of statutory rape; it dispels one of the common myths around sexual assault; and it introduces a debate around punishment of this type of crime.
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- Article highlightes issues in rural areas
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An article in the Sunday Times is one to get glad about, because it raises interesting issues about abuses in rural areas. However, there are some aspects in this piece that one could get mad about.
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- highlighting issues in rural area
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An article in the Sunday Times is one to get glad about, because it raises interesting issues about abuses in rural areas. However, there are some aspects in this piece that one could get mad about.
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- Environmental hazards and children’s vulnerablity
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The Sowetan (24/07/07, p.4) published a story titled “Lives at risk as mines coin it: State knew about danger for 40 years,” about exposed toxic wastes which allegedly endanger millions of people in Gauteng and the North West Province. This article is one to be glad of as it is educational, includes the views of children, and covers a topic which does not receive as much attention as it could do; the environment.
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