Music by South African artists. That’s what was supposed to make up 90 percent of the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) program. Three months after the announcement, little has changed. It was during a business briefing in May this year that Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the chief operating o...
Gender representation in media means the ways in which individuals become (mis)represented according to the roles we assign them culturally and how this leads to a perpetual disadvantaging. Gender identification and performance (masculine, feminine, fluid, other), as well as sociocultural marginalis...
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A look at elections coverage cross 47 of South Africa’s biggest news media sources shows that men were quoted almost two times more than women over a period of two months. This is according to an analysis by civil society group, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), which has been analysing elections...
Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird says this decision doesn’t mean Hlaudi Motsoeneng and other managers are going to change. “It is probably a response that they don’t want to end up in the Constitutional Court than it is about them realising that what they were doing was wrong.̶...
Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird says it is shocking that the public broadcaster would defy the damning ruling. The court order was pretty clear, they must come back to work effective immediately. ‘SABC in breach of court by sending ‘reinstated’ journos home – lobby g...
MEDIA Monitoring Africa has called on companies advertising on SABC to take a stand and withdraw their advertisements in protest against the editorial decisions which amounted to censorship. The public broadcaster had been refusing to withdraw a decision taken to ban airing footage of protests where...
The South African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Commission has called on the parliament to reconvene a committee on communications under National Assembly (NA) Rule 223 to address the broadcasting crisis while Parliament is in recess for the elections. Bishop Abel Gabuza, cha...
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