Ground Up lets pupils voice out concerns The rate of pregnancy among school learners in South Africa is alarming and has become a major challenge at schools as it affects the lives of thousands of young people, often limiting their growth and their pursuit of rewarding careers.[1] When a school impl...
TimesLIVE empowers Children amidst tragic circumstances. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is excited to award a GLAD[1] to TimesLIVE for their efforts to give a voice to children in sensitive and complex situations. All too often, children are excluded from discussion...
Child witness’s identity protected Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards DispatchLIVE a GLAD[1] for its article titled, “Girl, 9, tells court prison warder attacked wife with bush knife” (22/10/2022). The GLAD is awarded because the journalist sufficiently protects the identity of the child inv...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) congratulates News24 on its well reported story titled, “‘Our boy is not doing well’: Family of toddler burnt with boiling water at creche struggle with medical bills” (24/04/2023). The article written by Iavan Pijoos receives a ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted to award a GLAD[1] to Weekend Argus for exemplary reporting on children’s issues and for accessing a child as a source of information. The article titled, “Pupils at special-needs school need a push towards optimism” (03/09/2022) and written by No...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted to give a GLAD[1] to SowetanLIVE for its story about a technical school administration that has reportedly been forced to leave their school due to not having electricity for four months because of cable theft. Here, the journalist, Dimakatso...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted to award a GLAD[1] to TimesLIVE for its article, “School pupils forcibly demand to address Ramaphosa at Vaal imbizo” (12/08/2022) which highlights an imbizo during which pupils tried to seize the opportunity to explain to the President the difficulties ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards City Press a GLAD[1] for reporting an issue facing many children and potentially bringing it to the attention of policy makers. The article selected as a GLAD is titled, “Child-headed household crisis in South Africa” and was written by Yoliswa Sobuwa on 17 J...
Celebrating children’s achievements and allowing them to tell their own stories is something that the media rarely do. This is why when they do, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) applauds them. For its article which celebrates a 15-year-old girl’s success by telling her story and interviewing her, T...