15 July 2004
Winner Cardoso Prize hitchhikes for investigative journalism
Radio journalist Boaventura Mandlate has been awarded the Carlos Cardoso Prize 2004 for his contribution to the promotion of democracy. Mandlate: "I want to the show real life."
15 July 2004
Propaganda and Peeping Toms
Perhaps Prof. Jonathan Moyo, the Minister of Information and Publicity in Zimbabwe, is trying to get his own back on South Africa’s leading Sunday weekly, the Sunday Times. This paper lets no opportunity slip in publishing details about his visits to South Africa - to stock up on food supplies and other little luxuries no longer available in Zimbabwe.
15 July 2004
Monitoring e-mails is Zimbabwe’s latest eavesdropping plan
The Zimbabwean government’s latest eavesdropping plans fits in well with a longer-standing practice of monitoring Internet traffic. Read it in MediaNews, the newsletter of the NiZA Media Programme.
15 July 2004
The Big Issue Namibia: A hand up, not a hand out!
The Big Issue Namibia celebrates its second birthday this July. The magazine, a member of the International Network of Street Papers, is sold on the streets of Windhoek, Swakopmund and, most recently, the southern town of Keetmanshoop, by the homeless, vulnerably housed and long-term unemployed.
15 July 2004
Media for the people, by the people – thanks to The Big Issue
In April 2003, The Big Issue Namibia, a monthly magazine sold on the streets by the homeless and unemployed, launched the Community Journalism Mentoring Programme. The two-year course is designed to impart basic skills in community journalism.
15 July 2004
‘We are all leaders’ - local governance programme put into practice
It is a bright morning in Matabeland. At the Nswazi primary school in Umzingwane district the children enter the classrooms that surround the playground with the torn flag. All but one classroom is occupied; the empty one is reserved today for a workshop on Local Governance that is part of ACPDT’s Local Governance Programme.
15 July 2004
Zapiro: Long walk to free time
15 Juli 2004
