17 November 2022, Daily Maverick,Tamsin Metelerkamp “The SABC has a very special role during elections; it has a special role in terms of the sources of information … The way I see it, the independence of the SABC and the stability of the SABC is intricately linked to our constitutional democrac...
20 October 2022 , News24, Sibongile Khumalo The mandate of the SOS Coalition – whose members include the Right2Know Campaign, Media Monitoring Africa and Freedom of Expression Institute – is to ensure that the SABC broadcasts in the best interest of the public. Read full article...
29 July 2022, Horisani Sithole, SABC News Journalists for Human Rights and Media Monitoring Africa have held a civil society round-table discussion on COVID-19 and its impact on human rights. “There were so many unknowns and unfortunately, media, government, and industries had to come together t...
11 April 2022, Brett Venter, Stuff But eMedia, they of eTV fame, also has objections to Multichoice’s dominance in the advertising sphere. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) suggests the creation of a Media Sustainability Fund in South Africa. And Multichoice itself has a few issues it’s concerned wi...
29 March 2022, SABCNews Director of Media Monitoring Africa William Bird has accused Communications and Digital Technologies Minister, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni of interfering with the SABC’s operations by trying to force the public broadcaster to comply with what she says. Ntshavheni has threatene...
28 January 2022, SABC News The SABC has fired Phathiswa Magopeni, the Group Executive of News and Current Affairs. In a letter from Madoda Mxakwe, Group Chief Executive Officer, sent to Magopeni a short while ago, the corporation says there has been a breakdown in the trust relationship between the ...
4 August 2021, Business Day, William Bird Earlier this week Media Monitoring Africa, led by broadcast media legal expert Justine Limpitlaw, hosted a closed workshop with key stakeholders, including the government, to discuss the draft bill. To their credit, the team from the department of communicat...
The SABC’s Full View on 19 September, 2020 aired a story/interview wherein at least 12 minors are alleged to have been sexually violated by an unidentified man near Rustenburg. Unfortunately, the story/clip contravened accepted journalistic standards when reporting on children in that the children...
21 August 2020 The SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa are deeply concerned by reports that Cosatu is calling for the SABC Board to be dissolved and calls into question its motives for doing so. The call by Cosatu, according to the Eye Witness News[1] report,...