With South Africa under lockdown, the impact of this and indeed of the Covid-19 pandemic features a great deal in the media including the impact on the economy. Many of these stories have been about how the lockdown has been impacting households and of course as this is discussed, hunger forms a lar...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives SowetanLIVE a MAD[1] for this article, “Teenager raped by a man posing as a municipal official” (30/03/2020) in which a traumatised girl was interviewed and quoted. The article is about a 17-year-old-girl who was allegedly raped at home by a man posing as a mu...
Informal settlements usually bear the brunt of poor service delivery. People live in dire conditions and children are mostly exposed to all sort of dangers when playing. Dangers which may lead to injuries or worse deaths. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives GroundUp a MAD[1] for failing to protect t...
While reporting stories where children are witnesses to abuse or crime, media should be protecting children’s safety in addition to protecting their rights to dignity and privacy. This will ensure the safeguarding of those children’s best interest, which is a constitutional right clearly stated ...
Seeing a person die must be very traumatic and hard to forget more especially when you are a child and the incident that led to the person dying happens right in front of you. Children who experience such need counselling from an expert to recover and interviewing them about the ordeal for a news st...
An episode on a television program called Checkpoint, “Cut & Run” (eNCA, 16/07/2019) has been selected as a MAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) as it indirectly identifies child victims. eNCA, through the Checkpoint program, reports a story about a group of boys from the Vaal, south of J...
An article published by Sunday World earns itself a MAD[1] from Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for failing to protect the identity of the child in question. The article titled, “[Name withheld]gets limited role in raising love child” (Sunday World, 23/06/2019, pg.2) which also appears on the Sowe...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to Sunday Times for a child maintenance article in which a child is indirectly identified thereby subjecting him to potential ridicule. The article titled, “[Name withheld] dad ‘can’t be found’ for child support” (Sunday Times, 21/04/2019, p.6) ...
Callous reporting puts children in danger Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to two news articles by Herald LIVE and Sunday Times for publishing articles that reveal the identity of children who have been victims of and witnesses to crime and abuse thereby placing them in potential harm’...