To celebrate Safer Internet Day Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) together with Google SA, the Film and Publication Board (FPB) and the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) launch Web Rangers at McAuley House in Parktown, Johannesburg. This is an initiative where young people ...
Media Monitoring Africa has made a big impact in areas such as media freedom, diversity and quality since its beginning as a project to monitor the coverage of South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1993. We look forward to building on this and making an even bigger impact in 2016. View ...
Yesterday, we were shocked at the announcement that Mr Nhlanhla Nene will no longer be the Minister of Finance, but what was more shocking was that Faith Muthambi was still Minister of Communications. Even though there are a lot of speculations around Nene’s dismissal, Zuma’s move is something t...
South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has today upheld the findings of the Public Prosecutor in her report ‘When Governance and Ethics Fail‘ Some of the key excerpts from this judgement are: On 7 July 2014, instead of implementing the Public Protector’s remedial action and w...
We at Media Monitoring Africa have been monitoring the media in South Africa for the past 23 years and have learnt that crime is not a specialty in our field. What is our speciality is media monitoring and we can attest that Media monitoring is important in that it reveals trends of media coverage o...
Finance & Operations Manager – 28 hours per week Media Monitoring Africa is seeking an experienced individual to take on the position of Finance & Operations Manager to start as soon as possible. The Finance and Operations Manager is responsible for the management of the core financial a...
On Monday 20 July Media Monitoring Africa(MMA), in partnership with the Media Institute of Southern Africa: Lesotho (MISA), funded by the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA) hosted and event in Maseru to launch the final results of the Lesotho elections media monitoring project. The l...
Children are not passive ‘victims’, they are active participants and they want to have a say in matters that concern them. Media Monitoring Africa’s (MMA) Children’s team took a unique approach in preparing their submission in response to Film and Publication Board’s (FPB) proposed...
Empowering Children and the Media (ECM) is a coordinated strategy which, with children’s meaningful participation, aims to improve media’s portrayal of children through the respect, protection and promotion of children’s rights in media and media practice. This programme is highly interactive,...