Big things have been happening in South Africa since Bob went there last month. On November 10, the ruling ANC party suspended its high-profile young firebrand, Julius Malema, for five years. Then this past Tuesday—labeled “Black […]...
Sports minister Fikile Mbalula’s sex scandal, comprehensively exposed by Sunday newspapers City Press, Sunday World and Sunday Sun, has once again fuelled the debate about the burning issue facing South […]...
A grade 10 pupil and a member of the Children’s News Agency, Alex Rushmere, interviewed a range of children on the underworld of buying and dealing in steroids. Alex spent […]...
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South African civil society and the media have to reactivate the activism that was so much part of life during the days of the struggle. It is a sad truth […]...
Thousands of readers salivated indignantly over the Sowetan’s recent shocking but salacious front page, featuring a man and woman in correctional services and police uniforms –in a rather compromising position. […]...
Can South Africa’s newsrooms, its regulation watchdog the Press Council of South Africa and its brand new Press Freedom Commission (PFC) learn some valuable lessons from British Sunday tabloid News […]...
Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird has told Newswatch that while South African media has become more sensational, our journalists are in no danger of sinking to those depths. “The general […]...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is deeply concerned by the ongoing governance crises at the SABC, where the latest events see it making the news for all the wrong reasons. The […]...