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Who is who in Southern African Media landscape
Participants in NiZA’s media exchange September 2000
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Luckson Chipare
(Namibia)
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Regional director of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), with headquarters in Windhoek, Namibia.
MISA has affiliated chapters in 11 countries in Southern Africa, with in total 2000 members.MISA is the leading partner organisation in NiZA's media programme, NiZA supports numerous projects of MISA. MISA was formed after the global (UNESCO inspired) Windhoek declaration on the freedom of the press was formulated and adopted in 1991. In May 2001 MISA will celebrate it's 10th anniversary.
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Montgomery Cooper
(South Africa)
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Lecturer ethics and photojournalism on the Rhodes University of Grahamstown, South Africa. Photojournalist. Rhodes is one of the best known academic institutes for journalism education.
Monty is the author of a series of worksheets for the "Handbook on African journalism ethics" to be published December 2000. He also wrote the case study on photo journalism ethics.
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Michael Daka
(Zambia)
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Director of Zamcom, another outstanding institute for media-education in Lusaka, Zambia. He is one of the leading advocates of professional Media training in Southern Africa and invited by NiZA to support shaping the research into the training needs for the media sector with his colleagues from other institutes like Rhodes, IAJ, NSJ.
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Zane Ibrahim
(South Africa)
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Director of Bush Radio in Cape Town, South Africa.
Bush Radio is the first community radio station in South Africa, emerged in 1994. Meanwhile it has developed into one of the most interesting stations - mostly through its unique approach where lobby groups and other civic associations are being trained for their respective time slots on the radio station. Meanwhile Bush is rapidly growing into a training institution for the Cape provinces in South Africa. Bush is one of the leading stations in experiments for the sector. The very successful use of hiphop (rap) music in conveying the truth about AIDS and HIV contamination (inspired by the Dutch Madunia association) is an example of their innovative approach.
Bush's rappers Shaheen, Devious and Shamiel will be present at several occasions in the Netherlands to convey their message to Dutch youth: 15/16 September in workshops in Ganzenhoef, 22 September, 14.00 hours in De Balie (NiZA media market), 22 September in Akhnaton concert 20.00 hours, 23 September 20.00 hours in De Balie in Amsterdam (NiZA Living Yearbook).
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Grace Kwinjeh
(Zimbabwe)
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Journalist and founding member of the MDC opposition party in Zimbabwe.
Also founded the independent Journalists Association Zimbabwe. Champion of Freedom of Expression in Zimbabwe. The opposition nearly defeated the ‘Jurassic park’ government of Zimbabwe after 20 years of independence.
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Hugh Lewin
(South Africa)
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Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Journalist. Served a long term sentence under apartheid rule. Was a commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, led the investigation into the apartheid media. Will give a lecture on racism in the media in South Africa and beyond on 22 September in De Balie. Protagonist of media professionalism in his country and the region.
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Jeanette Minnie
(South Africa)
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Former director of MISA and FXI (Freedom of Expression Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa). Journalist. Now established as independent consultant for the independent media. One of NiZA's main independent advisers.
Working on an alert system for African (and possibly later European) journalists for support to endangered journalists.
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John Mukela
(Mozambique)
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Director of NSJ media training centre in Maputo, Mozambique. Important regional training centre for on the job training journalist's courses.
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Geoff Nyarota
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Well known Chief editor of the Daily News from Zimbabwe - first independent daily that survived and helped shaping the new country.
As chief editor of the 'Bulawayo Chronicle' he broke the first big corruption scandal in Zimbabwe in 1988: Willowgate. Managed to start an independent commercial daily paper en still to survive, which is a unique experience for Southern Africa and possibly far beyond.
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Talent Nyathi
(Zimbabwe)
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One of Zimbabwe's Freedom fighters, but a real one, not one of those phoney under 25 Mugabe crony's that occupy farms. Co director of the African Community Publishing and Development Trust. Since 20 years the leading force in Community Publishing: grassroots participatory research and communication. Now on the road to the first Zimbabwean community radio station (till to date all non-government radio is prohibited in Zimbabwe).
Organised a delegation of parliamentarians and stakeholders to study the South African legislation last August.
ACPD is introducing their successful strategies in Angola as from this year on.
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Jonathan Shapiro
(South Africa)
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South Africa’s most famous cartoonist Zapiro.
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/zapiro
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Karen Thorne
(South Africa)
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Director of MediaWorks in Cape Town. MediaWorks runs a college that gives access to media-education for grassroots communities and individuals. This college could develop into a good ICT training-centre for grassroots communities. MediaWorks publishes Mediawatch, a monthly newsletter about women and the media.
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