Taking a close look at history and development, key strategies, challenges and opportunities, this study addresses the successfulness of South Africa's media in promoting community and participatory democracy. With in-depth interviews and detailed questionnaires involving 25 small rural and urban media organizations, this range of data, analysis, and information will be invaluable for anyone wishing to engage effectively with the small media sector in South Africa.
Taking a close look at history and development, key strategies, challenges and opportunities, this study addresses the successfulness of South Africa'...
This research monograph, compiled by South African experts in community broadcasting with the assistance of key figures in the sector, traces the two-decade campaign for local-level television in South Africa. It highlights the development of policy, reviews existing international models, and spells out the technical, financial, and managerial challenges that face this sector. An informative chronicle that explores the introduction of a quality, accessible, local television-network that represents the final piece in post-apartheid's media jigsaw puzzle.
This research monograph, compiled by South African experts in community broadcasting with the assistance of key figures in the sector, traces the two-...
Exposing how the editorial content of magazines is shaped by those with buying power, this informative monograph challenges the tendency of the general public to believe that everything that appears in print is the truth. Highlighting issues of editorial integrity, profitability, media ethics, trust, and the consolidation of democracy in South Africa, this study looks at the strategies employed to develop paid-for content and explains the consequences this has on both journalism and the readers at large.
Exposing how the editorial content of magazines is shaped by those with buying power, this informative monograph challenges the tendency of ...
From high profile figures Cyril Ramaphosa, Albie Sachs, and Wendy Luhabe to analysts Wendy Lucas Bull, Vuyo Jack, and Itumeleng Mahabane, as well as practitioners Lot Ndlovu, Eric Mafuna, and Nolitha Fakude, this book brings together leading South African analysts and practitioners in a comprehensive analysis of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). The volume situates BEE within the larger trajectory of black business imperatives for empowerment and provides policy recommendations for legislative and regulatory clarity.
From high profile figures Cyril Ramaphosa, Albie Sachs, and Wendy Luhabe to analysts Wendy Lucas Bull, Vuyo Jack, and Itumeleng Mahabane, as well as p...
Kader Asmal, lawyer and teacher, South African Cabinet minister, and the driving force behind the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, has been called many things -- 'small, bustling, curious, courageous, indefatigable' (Irish Times) and 'dapper, combative, witty, cantankerous, sarcastic, urbane, precisely spoken' (Sunday Times).
Kader Asmal, lawyer and teacher, South African Cabinet minister, and the driving force behind the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, has been called many ...
The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether or not democracy flourishes or withers in the 21st century. Using a number of case studies, including South Africa, this book evaluates what is at stake.
The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether o...