In the Pretoria High Court Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), represented by the Centre for Child Law (CCL) submitted its application in the Eugene Terreblanche murder trial, seeking to rescind elements of a court order, granting limited access to members of the Terreblanche family and the public. A one...
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In South Africa, 333 rhino’s were slaughtered due to poaching in 2010, more than double the 133 slaughtered in the previous year. The epidemic of rhino poaching has been very present in media headlines and coverage. Over that same time period, 197,000 cases of crimes against women were reported to...
“It is a crisis, it just wasn’t a crisis according to how we as journalists expected it to be. It’s an indictment, it’s a problem with journalists that we follow the pack, and we follow certain stories that are in the news and when it’s out of the news it dies.” – ...
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“Instead of working in the dark, we should change the light bulb. This project is changing the bulb” That’s how Susanne Martin of the European Delegation described a new project launched today: Children and Media: Championing Best Practice. 600 children across South Africa and Zambian are goin...
For the first time children will be making an oral submission to the Press Council in its current review process. The Press Council of South Africa starts the review of its system in its series of public hearings commencing on the 17th February 2011. According to the Press Council “the review is i...
As the world commemorates International Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the General Assembly’s adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, South Africa is nearing the end of the year 2010, where new legislation and proposals were put forward that have the potential to s...
They make up 39% of the population They are mentioned in just 12.7% of articles We hear their voices in just 2% of stories Why are children’s views not in the news? Find out in Media Monitoring Africa (MMA)’s latest report: “Children’s Views not in the News; Portrayal of Children in South Af...