12 November 2024, 702, Bongani Bingwa Bongani Bingwa speaks with William Bird, Director of Media Monitoring Africa. Listen here...
10 November 2024, Tech Central , Duncan McLeod The SOS Coalition, Media Monitoring Africa and the South African National Editors’ Forum collectively made a submission to parliament in January in which they expressed deep concerns regarding the bill. The organisations pointed out “a series of cat...
10 November 2024, MyBroadband, Hanno Labuschagne Critics like Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition for Public Broadcasting complained that three years would be too little, too late, considering the SABC was already failing to break even. The minister also agreed with criticism from entities...
10 November 2024, Staff Report, Tech Central The SOS Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa previously wrote to parliament’s portfolio committee on communications & digital technologies calling for the bill to be scrapped. That was based on their belief that it offered “no clarity, new mechan...
10 November 2024, Sunday Times, Thabo Mokone Civil society bodies Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), the SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition (SOS) and the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) have long called for the scrapping of the bill, pointing to its constitutional flaws and it...
10 November 2024, The Citizen, Molefe Seeletsa The bill, however, faced significant opposition from civil society organisations, including Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef), and AfriForum, as well as from major broadcasters like MultiChoice and eTV.Re...
23 October 2024, George Claassen, News24 Media Monitoring Africa also gave evidence as amicus curae for News24 and Maughan in the complaint hearings in August. Read full article...
22 October 2024, Asanda Matlhare, Rosebank Killarney Gazette To demonstrate how tricky it is to define hate speech, Media Monitoring Africa hosted its Media Freedom Festival Day 2 third topic: Exploring the legal boundaries of freedom of expression: Rate the hate challenge, in a game show fashion on...
22 October 2024, Sipho Tshabalala, The controversy started with an opinion piece written by Edmond Phiri titled “Is Karyn Maughan South Africa’s Leni Riefenstahl – the Nazi Film Propagandist?”. It drew the ire of Karyn Maughan, News24, and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), all of whom lodged co...