South Africa: Media, Activism, and Change
Link5/7/2008
"As part of activities to celebrate 3 May International Media Freedom
Day 2008, the most recent edition of the Gender and Media Diversity
Journal (GMDJ) aims to create dialogue and debate about the
interaction between media, activism, and change. It comes when South
Africa is coping with a looming energy crisis, local media celebrity
Redi Direko has been actively campaigning to end gender violence in
taxi ranks, recent electoral happenings in Kenya and Zimbabwe have
attracted world attention, and food prices are rising worldwide. Like
it or not, media plays an integral role, through what they do and do
not report, focusing attention on social development and human rights
issues."
