Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted to award a GLAD[1] to Sowetan for its article, “’I’ve only seen him on TV’ “: Zinhle,7, overjoyed to meet Ramaphosa” (26/09/2021) which highlights a seven-year-old girl’s excitement to have had a chat with President Cyril Ramaphosa. ...
Electricity supply cuts are common in South Africa and one of the factors that contributes to this is the theft of electricity supply facilities by community members.[1] As society grapples for a solution to this problem, two 17-year-old boys from Middleburg in Mpumalanga have come up with a s...
Sowetan receives a GLAD[1] from Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for an article about a child star in which he is interviewed. The article titled, “Dogs were depressed during lockdown,’ research by grade 6 pupil finds” (01/09/2021) is written by Kgaugelo Masweneng and is about a 12-year-old b...
The Sowetan newspaper is given a MAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for a series of four articles the publication wrote on child rape and teenage pregnancy in and around the Gauteng province. The MAD is given to the Sowetan because the publication accessed the children, an action potentially re...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is encouraged about a series of Sowetan‘s and TimesLIVE’s in-depth, insightful and critical articles reporting on a child who was denied entry into his school because he wore a cultural bracelet. What is more encouraging is that these articles look deeper into t...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to Sowetan for its article titled, “Teen recalls rape ordeal” (23/05/2019, p.9). In the article, a girl who was kidnapped and raped is interviewed and quoted thereby subjecting her to potential secondary trauma. The story is about a 15-year-old girl w...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to Sowetanlive and Sowetan for accessing children who are also portrayed positively in two articles by Karabo Ledwaba. Further, the articles which are about children creating prototype robots, have been selected as GLADs because they highlight and ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a MAD[1] to Sowetan for publishing a story in which a child who was allegedly raped was interviewed extensively about her experiences. The story headlined, “Girl (13) raped and forced to abort the baby” (Sowetan, 24/10/2018, p.4), reports on a young girl who w...
Two articles titled, “Parent opens case over ‘bullying’” (Dispatchlive, 29-09-2018) and “Injured pupil to have second brain surgery” (Sowetan, 25-09-2018, p.2) have been given a MAD[1] by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for identifying the children involved who are victims and witness...