Baatile Mohale
October 02, 2018
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2 October 2018, Val Boje, Pretoria News The tragic reality, as William Bird of Media Monitoring, has pointed out, is that according to police crime stats, on average 64 children a day are sexually assaulted in South Africa (reported cases SAPS 2017/18 figures). Many never make it into the news. Read...
1 October 2018, News24, William Bird Like everyone else Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is appalled by the rape of a child in a restaurant. While brutally clear as an act, the issues it raises are complex and varied and touch on almost every aspect of our nation’s wounds and apartheid legacy. On...
01 October 2018, The Citizen, ANA In a statement, Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird said the issue was brought to the fore in the case of Zephany Nurse, a child who discovered at the age of 17 years and nine months, that she had been kidnapped as a baby. Read the full article...
1 October 2018, News24 William Bird Like everyone else Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is appalled by the rape of a child in a restaurant. While brutally clear as an act, the issues it raises are complex and varied and touch on almost every aspect of our nation’s wounds and apartheid legacy. On ...
01 October 2018, The Citizen, ANA In a statement, Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird said the issue was brought to the fore in the case of Zephany Nurse, a child who discovered at the age of 17 years and nine months, that she had been kidnapped as a baby. Read the full article...
1 June 2018, SABC The Director of Media Monitoring Africa, William Bird says the only time we see children in the media is when something hideous and horrible has happened to them. Speaking on Morning Live Bird says, “The children account for 35% of our population but we see them in roughly 8 perc...
Wits Accredited Certificate Course – Reporting on Children in the Media – (10 Day Course) 2-6 and 9-13 July 2018 Entrance requirements: a minimum of 2 years reporting experience or a degree/diploma in journalism with a minimum of 6 months reporting experience TO REGISTER: Contact Taryn Hinton at...
6 November 2017, IOL, Georgina Crouth If you wouldn’t put it up on a billboard on the N1 or M3, don’t put it up on social media. That’s the message to consumers of social media from Taryn Hinton, legal adviser and co-ordinator of Media Monitoring Africa’s Reporting on Children in the Media c...