An article in the Sunday Times is one to get glad about, because it raises interesting issues about abuses in rural areas. However, there are some aspects in this piece that one could get mad about. The News & Opinion section of the Sunday Times opened with an article about a girl, on Sunday 26 ...
An article in the Sunday Times is one to get glad about, because it raises interesting issues about abuses in rural areas. However, there are some aspects in this piece that one could get mad about. SundayTimes26-08-07,p15_small.JPG The News & Opinion section of the Sunday Times opened with an a...
The Sowetan (24/07/07, p.4) published a story titled “Lives at risk as mines coin it: State knew about danger for 40 years,” about exposed toxic wastes which allegedly endanger millions of people in Gauteng and the North West Province. This article is one to be glad of as it is educational, incl...
The article “Pupils starve as feeding programme collapses” that featured in City Press (7/10/07, p.12), is a reason to be glad, because it draws attention to the way in which the failure of Government in implementing the feeding scheme impacts on children’s wellbeing. The highlighting of this ...
On the 6th of February, news broke of the murder of Thato Radebe, a 14 year old girl whose body was found in a veld in Emndeni, Soweto. During that week, a number of accounts and follow-up stories on child murders made headline news. These included the follow up stories on the escape of Sgidi [&hell...
Sunday World (20 /05/2007, p.6) carried a story under the headline “Kid sex slaves: social worker nabbed for selling girls into prostitution.” The story is about a social worker who sold girls aged between 15 and 17 years into prostitution instead of putting them in a place of safety as promised...
A boy aged 13 bravely ran to his neighbours after he had been stabbed in the face by a man who sexually assaulted his mother. The man is suspected to be HIV positive. This was a front page story in the Daily Sun (23 April 2007, p1 & 2) entitled Boy of 13 tried to […]...
The Sunday World, 25 March 2007, p6 carried an article about an increase in younger women–older men relationships, the latter commonly called “sugar daddies.” The manner in which it was covered is something to get glad about. The report practiced ethical journalism by protecting the identity o...
Without doubt the article, “Children club starts anti-crime campaign” which appeared in The Star(30/11/2007, p.5) receives the glad rating because of how it reports on children. It presents children as responsible citizens who take charge of forming a campaign whose aim is to help heal Soweto o...