The Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation (MEF) has changed its duration of Media and Communications diploma course from nine months to two years. This is in a bid to meet Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TEVETA) regulations. The media and communications (Journalism) programme has been running for nine months over the past seven years as a department under MEF.

It is so sad to see and hear about journalists in Zambia not being part of the team that covers the Zambian President when he travels outside the country. This is apparently because of financial constraints. Some media houses also say that only certain media houses with a particular viewpoint get access to the President. I took it a step further and caught up with Mr Dickson Jere,...

Jon Qwelane has shown himself on a number of occasions to be openly and unapologetically homophobic and transphobic, not least when he wrote the article “Call me names, but Gay is not ok” in which he among other things expressed support for Robert Mugabe’s brutal and oppressive treatment of LGBTI people in Zimbabwe.

The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, in partnership with the Dutch development NGO Hivos, are hosting a two-day conference, entitled: Mobilising social justice at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference will present the results of several research projects that the Programme has supported

TaTEDO is a development NGO based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with more than seventeen years experience in facilitating access to sustainable modern energy services. TaTEDO undertakes activities in 10 regions and in more than 100 villages in Tanzania. TaTEDO’s vision is to ensure Poverty free and self-reliant communities in Tanzania ...

Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe and all human rights advocates mourn the passing away of Keith Goddard. He is one of the few people in Zimbabwe who vowed to fight for the rights of gays and lesbians in a repressive environment. The Board has appointed Mr. Chesterfield Samba, the Operations Manager as the person in charge of the day to day running of the ...

SITHENGI has received the news that the new Minister of Arts and Culture, Minister Lulu Xingwana “has called for a moratorium on all spending pending a forensic investigation”. This means that the funding that SITHENGI was promised by DAC in December 2008 will not be available as yet. This after SITHENGI had fulfilled the requirements of both a New Funding ...

Cape Town TV (CTV), the mother city’s own community television channel, has been forced to go off air temporarily. Cash flow problems have inhibited the station’s ability to pay its transmission costs, but the station’s management is confident that the situation will be resolved shortly, when the necessary funds have been raised.

The proposed new education policy has highlighted the importance of using English language as a medium of instruction in primary schools in the country, ‘The Guardian’ has authoritatively learnt. The same source has also indicates that the government has given the green light to a section of private primary schools to use English as a medium of instruction due to requests..

We express concern on the state of the media and freedom of expression rights in Swaziland especially the censorship and intimidation of the media as stated by Swazi journalists and activists and recorded cases of intimidation. We urge the Swazi government to make the processes of media legislative reform and related policy issues as transparent as possible ...

The fourth Digital Citizen's Indaba (DCI) takes place on 5 – 6 September at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, just before the University's annual Highway Africa conference. DCI is an annual event that brings together bloggers, online and mobile journalists, citizen reporters, new media practitioners, online industry experts and civil society representatives.

Witness just launched the online push to support RAU in its campaign for justice/accountability for the Zimbabwean women who were raped,tortured, abducted, and beat after the 2008 elections. The organisers are hoping to get 2000 messages in the next 2 weeks ­ a combination of video messages, petition signatures, twitter (re)tweets, comments, etc...

The case of Chansa Kabwela took off on 05th August 2009. Chansa (Post newspaper News Editor) stands trial for circulating obscene matters or things, contrary to section 177 1 (b) of the Penal Codes of the laws of Zambia. Contrary to the charges brought against her, Chansa tried to bring to attention the duty bears the plight of a woman and baby who died in birth during the strike of health personnel

Women are underrepresented in Southern Africa media houses; they hit the ‘glass ceiling’ at senior management and their representation wanes in top decision-making positions. Media women are more likely to be assigned to “soft beats”; to be on non-permanent contracts and to earn less, on average, than men. These are just but some of the findings of the Glass Ceilings...