Articles on the 6 of April focused on the impending announcement by the NPA on whether Jacob Zuma would face charges, with the majority predicting that the NPA would drop charges. Extensive coverage was also afforded to statements by Zuma that Afrikaaners were the only true White South Africans as...
This week MMA looks at key topics of elections stories. The results of the topics of elections coverage present a number of issues to discuss. For this report however, we will build on the prior week’s report “Is the media campaigning for the ANC and COPE?”, and focus on the level of attention...
The outstanding decision by the NPA on whether Jacob Zuma would face charges was discussed on Friday 3 April with much comment. However, most of this was not explicitly related to the election. The election coverage continued in much the same way as previous coverage, with top stories also revol...
Election related items continued to be dominated by the Zuma NPA decision, and it would appear that without these stories, election coverage would only be marginal. Although undoubtedly of interest to citizens, focus on the Zuma NPA story is unlikely to assist voters who are generally lacking rele...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has monitored every democratic election in South Africa. This year we are doing the same, providing daily and weekly reports on media coverage of election news, as well as MMA’s Election Media Ratings. Elections items were dominated by the Zuma NPA decision, and ANC o...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has monitored every democratic election in South Africa. This year we are doing the same, providing daily and weekly reports on media coverage of election news, as well as MMA’s Election Media Ratings. Top elections stories for Monday 30 March, dominated by the ANC or...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has monitored every democratic election in South Africa. This year we are doing the same, providing daily and weekly reports on media coverage of election news, as well as MMA’s Election Media Ratings Each weekly report provides more in depth analysis of key issues th...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has monitored every democratic election in South Africa. This year we are doing the same, providing daily and weekly reports on media coverage of election news, as well as MMA’s Election Media Ratings. Election coverage for the day (26 March) was fragmented, with the ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has monitored every democratic election in South Africa. This year we are doing the same, providing daily and weekly reports on media coverage of election news, as well as MMA’s Election Media Ratings. Top elections stories for Wednesday 25 March are: 1. The ANC state...