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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 30 July 2010 07:26 |
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 The ANC discussion document on Media Transformation, Ownership and Diversity is prepared for the 2010 ANC National General Council to be held from 20-24 September in Durban. The provides an overview of the media landscape drawing heavily on the 2009 MDDA research before 'putting media freedom into perspective' and motivating for the establishment of a Media Appeals Tribunal (MAT) and promoting the interests of black capital in the media industry. On media diversity the document recommits the ANC to supporting media diversity without reference to specific commitments in their Polokwane resolutions like increasing funding of the SABC from "the current 2% to a minimum of 60% by 2010"
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Read the full document here
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 10:32 |
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AIDC's Communication Activist Training on the theme of Health kicks off on the 31st July with a seminar on National Health Insurance and the Struggle for Health. The seminar is open to all concerned by the state of the health system in in South Africa - but space is limited so please do rsvp.
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See the Seminar Programme
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 16:14 |
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 AIDC's Communication Activist Training on the theme of food sovereignty kicks off on the 14th August with a seminar in partnership with TCOE on The Right to Food: Strategies for Agrarian Reform and Food Sovereignty. The seminar is open to all - but space is limited so please do rsvp.
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Read more...
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Written by The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) - Asia Pacific
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 10:40 |
 The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) convened representatives of community radio broadcasters, production groups and other community media practitioners from the Asia Pacific to adopt the Bangalore Community Radio Declaration in February 2010. The Declaration recognises the threat that increasing concentration and corporatization of commercialised media poses to peoples right to be informed and asserts the role of community media in realizing social justice. |
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read the Bangalore Community Radio Declaration
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 24 July 2010 16:17 |
 India has revealed a touchscreen computing device similar to the Apple iPad costing just R236.00. The Indian government will give one to 110 million schoolchildren. Any campaign for freedom of expression and access to information in South Africa should demand such a computer for every South African and an end to the Telkom/MTN/Vodacom profiteering on telecommunications. 48 million computers would cost us R4382 million less than we spent on 2010 soccer stadiums in Cape Town, Soccer City, PE, and Durban alone - stadiums we may never full again.
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Learn more about the lap top
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