Media Freedom Festival is an action-packed series of events that serve as an opportunity for us to ponder, probe and interrogate some of the key media-related issues of the moment. It is hosted at the end of October every year to honour Black Wednesday (19 October). To RSVP and learn more, follow th...
Children make up 34% of our population, which translates to around 19.7 million people under the age of 18.1 Children are afforded a special place in our homes, communities, and laws. Their evolving capacities, their potential, their resilience, their ability to learn, develop, change, and play make...
Children account for 34% of our population yet only appear in very few news stories.1 If we accept that one element of the role of the media is to “give comfort to the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” it is not only essential that children are covered but that they are covered in a manner ...
29 September, 2020 STATEMENT ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF MPUMALANGA OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF RAPE Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and the Centre for Child Law are deeply concerned at the level of carelessness being displayed by some media outlets and political parties in the coverage of the case involving a ...
SOUTH AFRICA’S PROMOTION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT AFTER 20 YEARS: URGENT NEED FOR REFORM TO MAKE IT FIT FOR PURPOSE IN THE DIGITAL AGE 28 September 2020 For immediate release The importance of the right of access to information cannot be disputed. The right gives meaning to the constitutiona...
Media Monitoring Africa announce the lsu Elihle 2020 finalists!On Monday the 31st of August Media Monitoring Africa announced this year’s lsu Elihle finalists. They are from four countries with in the African continent. They are Zimbabwe’s Tatenda Chitagu and Mercy Mubaiwa. South Africa’s Luzu...
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In order to determine trends in coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of sources in South African media, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is running a series of analyses where findings are compared against each other to show improvement, or the lack thereof. The previous four analyses published ha...
21 August 2020 The SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa are deeply concerned by reports that Cosatu is calling for the SABC Board to be dissolved and calls into question its motives for doing so. The call by Cosatu, according to the Eye Witness News[1] report,...