After two short runs of one month each in 2005 and 2006, Soweto Community TV finally went on air for a year in July 2007 to viewers in the South Western townships.B ut despite the success, the station's future is
The National Council for Social Communication (CNCS) will hold on 15 July in Lobito City, in the south-western Benguela province, a seminar with the motto " The rigour in information versus journalistic truth", says a press note which has reached
Afrikaans Singer Jurie Els says the editors of You and Huisegenoot Magazines used their publications to ridicule a court order he had obtained to prohibit thrm from publishing sexual molestation allegations made against him.
Is the pen mightier than the panga? This was the question confronting Kenya's literary establishment in the opening days of 2008, as war spread throughout Kenya's urban centers and across the fertile Rift Valley in the nation's heartland. As belligerent
The Minority leader in The Gambian Parliament, Momodou Sanneh on July 3, 2008 called on the government of President Yahya Jammeh to respect the ECOWAS court ruling by releasing Chief Ebrima Manneh, a detained reporter of the Banjul-based privately-owned government-controlled
KOOS Bekker, CEO of Africa's biggest media business, Naspers, wants to elevate the group into one of the biggest media businesses in emerging markets in the next five years on anticipated sharp growth in the internet business sector.
Forty carefully-selected Rwandan journalists from both print and electronic media will have gone through quite helpful training sessions by tomorrow night.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced an agreement with the African Union of Broadcasting (AUB) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation Limited (SABC) for the acquisition of the broadcast rights within 37 territories in sub- Saharan Africa (excluding South
AS THE drama at the public broadcaster continues , African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma yesterday broke his silence saying that "the man who is still in charge" -- President Thabo Mbeki -- should "take responsibility" for the crisis
The other day while flipping through the papers, my eye caught an advertisement in the Punch of June 2, 2008 putting out for sale the Nigerian Newsprint Manufacturing Company (NNMC) located at Oku Iboku, Akwa Ibom State. As I read
The Military Prosecutor General decided to release journalist and writer Abd Al Khaliq Farouq on 8 July 2008 after two and a half hours of questioning. However, Farouq was instructed to not address any issues related to the military without
Today, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) released the trial observation report, Burundi: the Media on Trial, and welcomed the acquittal of four leading Burundi journalists of offences relating to their reporting of an alleged coup plot.
Police in Plumtree have dropped a case against Kholwani Nyathi, a Bulawayo-based correspondent with "The Standard" privately-owned weekly, whom they wanted to question over an unpublished story he had investigated during a visit to the south-western border town.
Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria, (BON), has has condemned the decision of the Ogun State House of Assembly to ban the state-owned broadcast outfits, Gateway Television and Gateway Radio, from covering its activities.
Last week, a New Vision journalist was abducted and tortured from where he had gone to cover a function in the course of his normal duty. Sebide Kiryowa was blindfolded, beaten up and his money was stolen by goons who
Angola's National Assembly Wednesday here turned down the draft laws on National Council of Mass Media (CNCS) and the Right of Air Time and Political Reply, submitted by the main opposition Unita in coalition with other parties and civil society
