The last few days have seen extensive coverage across all media of a white boy, Happy Sindane, who told police that he had been abducted

On 29 October, MMP issued an update addressing the issue of inappropriate identification of a child. In an incident last week members of the media

Despite the extra protection afforded to children in South Africa by the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (to which South Africa is

The last few days have seen extensive coverage across all media of a white boy, Happy Sindane, who told police that he had been abducted

The Sowetan Sunday World (SSW from now on) yesterday (15/07/01) carried a story about a seven-year-old boy child who had been disfigured in a fire.

The case of Nadia Neethling is exceptional, and has presented the media with particularly difficult choices in reporting. She was first named and shown in

The last few weeks have seen considerable coverage of issues related to children in our media both print and broadcast. Cases concerning abuse, abduction and