President Kgalema Motlanthe last week refused to sign the Films and Publications Amendment Bill, questioning its constitutionality and returning it ‘untouched’ to Parliament. Melissa Moore, head of Law Clinic at […]...
‘Save our SABC Campaign’ Coalition spokeswoman Kate Skinner has come out in support of the ruling ANC, urging President Kgalema Motlanthe to sign the Broadcasting Amendment Bill as soon as […]...
As the year 2008 slowly but surely disappears, it is time for the media to do some critical retrospection to see if it’s correctly fulfilled its role of a Fourth […]...
The Media Monitoring Project has rebranded to become Media Monitoring Africa and relaunched their website, all this coinciding with its 15-year anniversary. The name change represents a realignment of their […]...
“The Daily Sun, a South African tabloid, shall henceforward not use terms like aliens and evil aliens, in its coverage of foreigners. The xenophobic coverage of the newspaper is held […]...
The long-running and bitter dispute between South Africa’s fast-selling newspaper, Daily Sun, and the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) over the tabloid’s labelling of foreigners as ‘aliens’ and its alleged xenophobic […]...
The SABC has been accused of ignoring the ANC gatherings in favour of Shikota, a new splinter group recently established by the ruling party’s dissidents, according to yesterday’s (Sunday, 2 […]...
The battle to ‘save’ the SABC’s soul continues unabated and has entered a crucial phase. Towards the end of last week, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) held its deliberations […]...
The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) is deeply troubled by the incorrect and misleading statements made by Tommy Ntsewa in his Viewpoints piece, “Political opinions should be voiced after the age […]...