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Nat Nakasa Award For Media Integrity
The Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity is an award presented to a South African media practitioner in newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and online print media and whose reporting celebrates freedom of speech and media integrity. The award is managed and presented by the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF). History The award is named in honour of a black South African journalist and writer Nat Nakasa. Nat Nakasa was born in outside Durban in 1937. After leaving school at seventeen and after many jobs, he was employed a year later as a junior reporter at the ''Ilanga Lase Natal'', a Zulu language weekly. After attracting the attention of Sylvester Stein of the ''Drum'' magazine, he joined the magazine in 1957. He and the other journalists writings at the ''Drum'' were influenced by the ''Suppression of Communism Act, 1950'' and had to show the effects of Apartheid indirectly on black lives without condemning it directly for fear of being banned from practising jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African National Editors Forum
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is a South African-based non-profit membership organisation for editors, senior journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...s and journalism trainers. The SANEF supports South African journalism through a number of activities ranging from public statements supporting media freedom, running training programs for journalists, writing policy submissions to government, to sponsoring and conducting research into the state of the media in South Africa. The SANEF runs the annual ''Nat Nakasa award'' that recognises media practitioners that have improved South African journalism. The SANEF was founded following the merger of the predominantly black South African ''Black Editors’ Forum'' and the predominantly white South Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rand Daily Mail
''The Rand Daily Mail'' was a South African newspaper published from 1902 until it was controversially closed in 1985 after adopting an outspoken anti-apartheid stance in the midst of a massive clampdown on activists by the security forces. The title was based in Johannesburg as a daily newspaper and best known for breaking the news about the apartheid state's Muldergate Scandal in 1979. Renowned South African journalist to teach at School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina It also exposed the truth about the death in custody of anti-apartheid activist , in 1977. The ''Rand Daily Mail'' was resur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Brkic
Branko (Cyrillic script: Бранко; ) is a South Slavic male given name found in all of the former Yugoslavia. It is related to the names Branimir and Branislav, and the female equivalent is Branka. People named Branko include: * Branko Babić (born 1947), Serbian football manager * Branko Baković (born 1981), Serbian footballer * Branko Baletić (born 1946), Serbian-Montenegrin film director and producer * Branko Bauer (1921–2002), Croatian film director * Branko Bokun (1920–2011), Yugoslav-British author and journalist * Branko Bošković (born 1980), Montenegrin footballer * Branko Bošnjak (1923–1996), Croatian philosopher * Branko Bošnjak (born 1955), Yugoslav footballer * Branko Bošnjaković (born 1939), Dutch-Croatian physicist * Branko Brnović (born 1967), Montenegrin football manager * Branko Buljević (born 1947), Croatian-Australian footballer * Branko Cikatić (1954–2020), Croatian martial artist * Branko Crvenkovski (born 1962), Macedonian politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suna Venter
Suna Venter was a South African current affairs journalist, fiction writer, and senior radio producer at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). She was one of a group of eight journalists known as the SABC8 who were suspended in 2016 for objecting to the editorial policies implemented by SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng. Most notably the policy by the SABC of refusing to air protest footage. The policy was reversed following a parliamentary enquiry. Following their suspension the journalists including Venter were the victims of numerous death threats, home break-ins and other forms of intimidation to get them to drop a Constitutional Court case against the SABC. Death On 29 June 2017, Venter was found dead in her home in Kelland, Johannesburg. She was 32 years old. Her death is believed to have resulted from stress induced cardiomyopathy caused by the intimidation attempts against her following her and her colleagues' criticism of Motsoeneng's policies. The Inkatha Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Magubane
Peter Magubane (born 18 January 1932) is a South African photographer. Early life Peter Sexford Magubane was born in Vrededorp, now Pageview, a suburb of Johannesburg, and grew up in Sophiatown. He began taking photographs using a Kodak Brownie box camera as a schoolboy. In 1954 he read a copy of ''Drum'', a magazine known for its reporting of urban blacks and the effects of apartheid. "They were dealing with social issues that affected black people in South Africa. I wanted to be part of that magazine." He started employment at ''Drum'' as a driver. After six months of odd jobs, he was given a photography assignment under the mentorship of Jürgen Schadeberg, the chief photographer. He borrowed a camera and covered the 1955 ANC convention. "I went back to the office with good results and never looked back." Being on assignment in the early years was not easy, as he recalled: "We were not allowed to carry a camera in the open if the police were involved, so I often had to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alide Dasnois
Alide Dasnois (born 1950) is a South African journalist and newspaper editor. Education and career Dasnois matriculated from Herschel Girls School and completed a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Cape Town. She obtained a master's degree at the Sorbonne (Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne) in Development Economics. During the mid-1980s she worked as a translator in Paris. In 1988, she moved to Reunion Island to work for ''Témoignages''. In 1992, she started working at '' The Argus'' in Cape Town where she edited the business section before becoming assistant editor for ''Personal Finance'' (Cape Town). In 2001, she moved to Johannesburg and became the editor of ''Business Report'', before working as acting editor of the ''Pretoria News'' for a year in 2006. She worked as deputy editor of the Cape Times from December 2006 until April 2009, when she became first female editor of the ''Cape Times''. Controversy Dasnois was removed from her post as ''Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondli Makhanya
Mondli Makhanya is the newly appointed Editor-In-Chief of the '' City Press''. He was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of ''The Sunday Times'' (South Africa) newspaper. He also sits on the council of the South African National Editors' Forum. As an outspoken critic of the South African government's recent controversial arms deal and the alleged irregularities contained within, he regularly used his columns to express this. Avusa Media Newspapers It was made public on 25 March 2010 that Makhanya was appointed editor-in-chief ofAvusa
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Greg Marinovich
Greg Marinovich (born Gregory Sebastian Marinovich, 8 December 1962) is a South African photojournalist, filmmaker, photo editor, and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He co-authored the book '' The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War'' (2000), which details South Africa's transition to democracy. Early life Marinovich was born on 8 December 1962, in Springs, Gauteng, South Africa. He is the son of an immigrant from Korčula, Croatia. In 1985 Marinovich took pictures of Archbishop Desmond Tutu at a church service in Johannesburg. It was his first news event. To avoid military service he left the country shortly thereafter. He moved to Botswana. At the northern border he met members of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). There started his interest to explore more the living conditions of people at times of ''political extremis.'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Du Preez
Max du Preez (born 10 March 1951) is a South African author, columnist and documentary filmmaker and was the founding editor of ''Vrye Weekblad''. Vrye Weekblad Online or Vrye Weekblad II was launched on 5 April 2019 again with Max du Preez as editor. Beeld Max du Preez is a writer, columnist and documentary filmmaker. Between 1982 and 1988, Du Preez was the Political Correspondent for various publications including ''Beeld'', ''Financial Mail'', ''Sunday Times'' and ''Business Day''. He won the Nat Nakasa Award for fearless reporting in 2008. Vrye Weekblad Du Preez founded the Vrye Weekblad, an Afrikaans-language weekly newspaper, in November 1988 and its progressive successor Vrye Weekblad Online in 2019. During his tenure as editor-in-chief, the newspaper's offices were bombed and Du Preez received death threats as a result of the paper's opposition to apartheid. He was sentenced to six months in jail for quoting Joe Slovo, the then leader of the South African Communis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Pauw
Jacques Pauw is a South African investigative journalist who was an executive producer of the ''Special Assignment'' current affairs programme on SABC. Pauw was a founding member and assistant editor of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad. He began his television career in 1994, specializing in documentaries around the African continent. Throughout his journalistic career, Pauw investigated lethal criminal activities in the underworld of southern Africa and exposed atrocities committed by governments around the African continent. Affairs covered by Pauw's documentaries include the Rwandan genocide, the War in Darfur, and the police death squads in South Africa under apartheid. In November 2017, South Africa's state security agency (SSA) brought criminal charges against Pauw because of claims made in his book, " The President's Keepers." His house was raided by the South African police in February 2018. Retirement In 2014, Jacques Pauw retired from journali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Kumalo
Alfred Khumalo (5 September 193021 October 2012), better known as Alf Kumalo, was a South African documentary photographer and photojournalist. Overview Kumalo was born in Utrecht near Newcastle in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. He first worked in a garage doing various jobs and then started freelancing for various publications, selling his photographs where he could. He did a lot of work for the '' Bantu World.'' In 1956, he found a permanent position at the '' Golden City Post'' and later received assignments from ''The Star,'' a South African daily, ''Drum'' magazine, and international publications like ''The New York Times.'' He was among the photographers who captured the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. In 1963, while working for ''Drum,'' he was selected together with Harry Mashabela to go and shoot a story about African students in the Iron Curtain countries. The two made the front cover of the next edition of the magazine, "''Drum'' men go to Europe". While in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
Mzilikazi wa Afrika is a South African investigative journalist and record producer currently best known for his arrest in August 2010 on charges of fraud and defeating the ends of justice, which escalated the debate in his country about media freedom and, in light of a proposed Media Appeals Tribunal and Protection of Information Act, seeming attempts by the governing African National Congress to curtail it. Suggestions abound that the arrest was politically motivated, coming as it did just a day after Bheki Cele, reacting to an article by Wa Afrika which detailed the police chief's involvement in a dubitable R500,000,000 lease agreement, described him as "shady" and hinted at reprisal. Wa Afrika's newspaper ''The Sunday Times'' subsequently quoted "a senior police official close to the case" as admitting, "''Ja'', it's political pressure," while Wa Afrika himself claimed to have been asked by his captors "whether I was involved in discrediting senior ANC office bearers in Mpumal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
