Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards The Saturday Star a GLAD[1] for the article titled, “Cape Town teenager teams up with SA artists to create song which calls for the healing of the planet” (12/03/2022). This is because the article portrays the child in a positive way and accesses him. The art...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to Saturday Star for its story that not only celebrates children’s achievements but also highlights the importance of breaking gender barriers. The article, “UN warns against gender-based biases which cou...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is pleased to award a GLAD[1] to GroundUp for its article, “Pit latrines at schools: ‘When you return to class, the smell of the poo remains in your clothes’” (18/02/2022) which highlights an important issue that threatens the health and...
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected so many sectors in South Africa and one of these is the education sector. Education in the country has greatly been affected to the extent of affecting performance of learners as schools have had to be closed or put on rotational learning basis on more than one occ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted to award a GLAD[1] to Daily Voice for publishing an article about a Grade 4 pupil at Laerskool Mikroi in Western Cape who will star in a film about a story she wrote and entered into the Western Cape Education Department’s Story Stars proje...
Accessing children and allowing them to share their views and personal experiences on issues that affect them is one of the practices that the media rarely do. Therefore, when they do access children, the media must be commended. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards IOL and SowetanLIVE a GLAD[i] for...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) wishes to award News24 a GLAD[1] for its article titled, “Grade 10 pupil who killed classmate, then himself, had been showing grandfather’s gun to friends” (14/01/2022). The GLAD is awarded because the journalist protects the identity of a child involved. The ...
“WOMEN SUFFER IN SILENCE!” (Daily Sun, 06/11/2021) was selected as a GLAD[1] for interviewing a child living with cancer and, for giving prominence to the issue by quoting the child so that she can share her experience with the public. In the article, journalist, Lethabo Khambule talks about BRE...
Cultural practices are part of many South African families. However, the media gives this topic very little space. According to a research report on children’s coverage in the media titled, “Are we ever going to be heard?” by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), cultural practices as a topic is ...