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...
When reporting on children who are victims of and witnesses to a crime, the media must make sure that they are protecting those children’s dignity and privacy. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives SowetanLIVE, Times LIVE and IOL a MAD[i] for directly identifying children involved in criminal cases ...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) congratulates Timeslive on its story entitled, “Mother, 23, jailed after leaving toddler alone during a tavern spree” (11/10/2018) by Nonkululeko Njilo in which the children involved were protected from further potential harm. The story, which MMA selected as a GLAD...
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) awards The New Age and TimesLive a GLAD[1]for positively reporting on children and highlighting their achievements. The first article, “BSc Physics Student at 14” by Lillian Selapisa, (The New Age, 03/02/2017, p.1) is about 14-year-old Hjalmar Rall who is set to...