Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is concerned that the North Gauteng High Court sanctioned a gagging order on The Sunday Independent, without hearing from the newspapers lawyers. On Friday the North Gauteng High Court granted an interdict application against the Sunday Independent. It prevented the new...
Weekend media reported widely on the ANC Youth League President, Julius Malema, referring to the Western Cape Premiere as a cockroach. During a ceremony marking the 66th anniversary of the ANCYL, its President said: “You have put the cockroach in cabinet. People of the Western Cape, we are asking ...
Well, is it? There was a lot of fear and publicity around human trafficking for sex work around the World Cup. On television and in cinemas, public service announcements warned that the soccer tournament would lead to 100,000 women and children being trafficked. Now we’re reading articles that a...
In making his second submission to a parliamentary committee on the Protection of Information Bill, Minister of State Security Siyabonga Cwele defended the proposed legislation as being in line with the South African Constitution, International Human Right’s Charters and Conventions and internatio...
Women are still significantly underrepresented and misrepresented in news media coverage. That’s according to Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) research coordinated by the World Association for Christian Communication. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) was the data analyst for the project which l...
The reporting of a story of two children from Soweto who were missing for two weeks and were found on Tuesday 21st September 2010 has highlighted the challenges faced by media in reporting on children. The campaign to find the children was high profile, with media playing an active role in highlight...
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele has narrowed the scope of the Protection of Information Bill, but key elements of the legislation remain of concern to Media Monitoring Africa (MMA). Minister Cwele addressed Parliament’s ad-hoc committee on the Protection of Information Bill. MMA welcomes t...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) calls on M-Net’s Big Brother programme to immediately remove Hannington Kuteesa from the show for physically assaulting female housemate Lerato Sengadi during the programme’s live broadcast on Tuesday evening. The original footage of the altercation shows Kuteesa ph...
At 12pm on the 12th June 2010, media gathered in a Seminar room in Wits University for a press conference. But this one was different. It didn’t look like the boring stuffy setting journalists have come to expect when they’re invited to attend a press conference. No bland boardroom here! Instead...