Children who have achieved an award or created something unique deserve their voices heard in media coverage of them. This is so they can share their feelings about their achievements and hopefully, inspire their peers. Unfortunately, this is not the case in an article by The Star titled, “All-gir...
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...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) congratulates and awards a GLAD[1] to The Star and its journalist, Bongani Nkosi for an article which shared powerful voices of children. The article, “Study reveals Joburg pupils aged 11 to 18 worried about safety at their schools” (The Star, 19/04/2...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives neither a MAD[1] nor GLAD[2] to The Star for its story involving a child author and activist who was reportedly nominated to receive the International Children’s Peace Prize 2020. This is because the journalist behind this story failed to give a voice to the chi...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[1] to The Star for its positive portrayal of a girl child breaking barriers. “Joburg teen becomes first blind pupil to participate in SA maths Olympiad” (The Star, 14/09/2020) by Khaya Koko describes how a tenacious 15-year-old girl, Joanne Futselaar&n...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is delighted to award a GLAD[1] to The Star for publishing an article about a seven-year-old child who is dedicated to helping other young children deal with some of life’s biggest problems through his newly launched comic book. The article titled, “A superhero stor...
The unemployment rate in South Africa keeps on growing, this according to Statistics South Africa which places the country’s unemployment rate at 29%.[1] Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards a GLAD[2] to The Star for publishing a story of a child entrepreneur who reportedly started a busines...
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...
MMA gives a Missed Opportunity[1] to The Star for its article that celebrates a toddler for his high intelligence traits but does not access him. By not accessing the child, The Star missed an opportunity for a great story that would have been achieved by getting the child’s perspective ...