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  • Minister Slams the Proposed Porn Channel

    The Minister of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities condemns the idea of a porn channel on South African television

    The Minister of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya has sharply condemned the idea of a porn channel on South African television.

    Mayende-Sibiya says that, “Adults can source porn wherever, but now when you want to bring it at home, then it becomes a problem. Also, there is a linkage between porn and violence and the abuse of women and the abuse of children.”

    Source: 
    SABC News

  • South Africa’s Digital TV Delayed

    SA postpones transition from analogue television broadcasts to digital broadcasts

    South Africa's transition from analogue television broadcasts to digital broadcasts has been postponed by possibly two years or even longer.

    The reason was that the country’s television industry and the digital Set Top Boxes (STBs) that viewers would have to purchase to watch TV in future, will not be ready in time.

    The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) recently published the final digital migration regulations for the transitional process from digital terrestrial TV (DTTV) in the government gazette.

    Source: 
    News24

  • Media Monitoring Africa Comments on the 2010/11 Budget

    Just whose budget is this? A brief review of how some of our mass media reported the 2010 Budget Speech.

    As expected, today’s media are filled with budget analyses, special reports, programmes and inserts and they have done well in seeking to simplify and make interesting an issue that is about a budget. While extensive, however, coverage tends to be biased in favour of big business.

    Author(s): 
    William Bird

  • MMA Pushes for More Time for Broadcasting Bill

    Media Monitoring Africa launches a campaign calling for the public to petition the Department of Communications to allow more time to comment on the Public Service Broadcast Bill

    Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has launched a campaign on its website calling for the public to petition the director- general of the Department of Communications, Mamodupi Mohlala, to allow more time to comment on the controversial Public Service Broadcast Bill.

    Source: 
    Business Day

  • More than R1bn Bailout for SABC

    The South African Broadcasting Corporation to receive a bailout of more than R1 billion

    The Department of Communications has announced that the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will receive a bailout of more than R1 billion.

    Communications Minister, Siphiwe Nyanda, points out that, “We hope that the financial injection by government will help the SABC meet its urgent needs, such as payment of outstanding debts and other matters of priority."

    Source: 
    News24

  • SANGONeT Development Calendar 2010

    SANGONeT is currently compiling its 2010 Development Calendar, which will once again be produced in the form of a year planner.

    The Calendar, to be released in December 2009, will cover a comprehensive list of international, African and South African dates (e.g. World AIDS Day, 1 December) of significance to people and organisations involved in development and civil society issues.

  • New Bill to Scrap TV Licences

    The Department of Communications submits the Public Service Broadcasting Bill, which seeks to abolish television licences and introduce other changes to public broadcasting

    The Department of Communications has submitted the Public Service Broadcasting Bill, which seeks to abolish television licences and introduce other changes to public broadcasting in South Africa.

    The bill, should it be approved, will establish a Public Service Broadcasting Fund and also establish an international broadcasting services division within the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) and transfer Channel Africa to this new operating unit.

    Source: 
    Finance24

  • IAJ: Environmental Reporting

    The Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ), a leading provider of training for working journalists in South Africa, is conducting a one-day course on Environmental Reporting on 16 November 2009 in Johannesburg.

    Event type: 
    Training
    Event venue: 
    9 Jubilee Road IAJ Offices Parktown
    Event start date: 
    11/16/2009
    Event end date: 
    11/16/2009

  • NEMISA students scoop 4 awards at the CIT:Y Festival Awards

    Press Release

    22 October 2009

    The National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA) has done it again.   In 2007 NEMISA scooped 4 awards and in 2008 two awards. In front of a capacity crowd at awards ceremony held at Museum Africa – Newtown on 21 October 2009, NEMISA students were recognised among their peers. They walked away with 4 awards in 2 categories.

    Date published: 
    10/22/2009
    Organisation: 
    National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa