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Media of South Africa

Index Media of South Africa

The media of South Africa has a large mass media sector and is one of Africa's major media centres. [1]

68 relations: Academic freedom, Africa, Afrikaans, Alternative media, Alternative media in South Africa, Apartheid, Black Consciousness Movement, Cape Colony, Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers, Censorship, Chapter Two of the Constitution of South Africa, Cinema of South Africa, Constitution of South Africa, Corporation, De Zuid-Afrikaan, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, Donald Woods, Drum (South African magazine), DStv, Dutch language, E.tv, Electronic publishing, Freedom of the press, Helen Zille, Huisgenoot, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, Independent News & Media, Johannesburg, Journalist, Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, List of radio stations in South Africa, List of South African media, M-Net, Mail & Guardian, Mass media, Media Appeals Tribunal, Monopoly, MTN Group, MultiChoice, Naspers, National Party (South Africa), Non-governmental organization, Oilgate, Philip Altbach, Press Freedom Index, Protection of State Information Bill, Public broadcasting, Reporters Without Borders, SA Sports Illustrated, Samizdat, ..., Satellite television, Sekunjalo Investments, September 11 attacks, South African Broadcasting Corporation, South African comics, South African literature, South African rand, Steve Biko, Television, Telkom (South Africa), Telkom Media, Thomas Pringle, Times Media Group, United Kingdom, University press, Vodacom, Xhosa language, Zulu language. Expand index (18 more) »

Academic freedom

Academic freedom is the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Alternative media

Alternative media are media that differ from established or dominant types of media in terms of their content, production, or distribution.

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Alternative media in South Africa

South Africa has a long history of alternative media.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Black Consciousness Movement

The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.

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Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers

Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers (JSE: CAT) is a newspaper company.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.

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Chapter Two of the Constitution of South Africa

Chapter Two of the Constitution of South Africa contains the Bill of Rights, a human rights charter that protects the civil, political and socio-economic rights of all people in South Africa.

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Cinema of South Africa

The cinema of South Africa refers to the films and film industry of the nation of South Africa.

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Constitution of South Africa

The Constitution of South Africa is the supreme law of the Republic of South Africa.

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Corporation

A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

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De Zuid-Afrikaan

De Zuid-Afrikaan was a nineteenth-century Dutch language newspaper based in Cape Town that circulated throughout the Cape Colony, published between 1830 and 1930.

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Die Afrikaanse Patriot

Die Afrikaanse Patriot was the first Afrikaans-language newspaper.

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Donald Woods

Donald James Woods, CBE (15 December 1933 – 19 August 2001) was a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist.

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Drum (South African magazine)

DRUM is a South African family magazine mainly aimed at black readers containing market news, entertainment and feature articles.

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DStv

DStv (Digital Satellite Television) is a Sub-Saharan African direct broadcast satellite service owned by MultiChoice.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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E.tv

e.tv is the first and only privately owned free-to-air television station in South Africa.

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Electronic publishing

Electronic publishing (also referred to as e-publishing or digital publishing or online publishing) includes the digital publication of e-books, digital magazines, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues.

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Freedom of the press

Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely.

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Helen Zille

Otta Helene Maree (née Zille; born 9 March 1951), known as Helen Zille, is a South African politician.

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Huisgenoot

Huisgenoot (Afrikaans for House Companion) is a weekly Afrikaans-language general interest family magazine.

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Independent Communications Authority of South Africa

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is an independent regulatory body of the South African government, established in 2000 by the ICASA Act to regulate both the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors in the public interest.

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Independent News & Media

Independent News & Media plc (INM) is a media organisation based in Dublin, Ireland, and operating across several countries.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (or Muhammad cartoons crisis) (Danish: Muhammedkrisen) began after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 editorial cartoons on 30 September 2005, most of which depicted Muhammad, a principal figure of the religion of Islam.

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List of radio stations in South Africa

This is a list of radio stations in South Africa.

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List of South African media

The following is a list of South African media, including newspapers, television stations, radio stations and various alternative media.

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M-Net

M-Net (an abbreviation of Electronic Media Network) is a subscription-funded television channel broadcast in South Africa.

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Mail & Guardian

The Mail & Guardian is a South African weekly newspaper, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Mass media

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Media Appeals Tribunal

The Media Appeals Tribunal was proposed in an African National Congress (ANC) 2010 discussion paper, which, in turn, builds on a resolution adopted at the party's 2007 National Conference in Polokwane.

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Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos and πωλεῖν pōleîn) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.

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MTN Group

MTN Group Limited, formerly M-Cell, is a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in many African, European and Asian countries.

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MultiChoice

MultiChoice is a video entertainment and internet company with a strong presence in South Africa and across the African continent.

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Naspers

Naspers is a broad-based multinational internet and media group, offering services in more than 130 countries.

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National Party (South Africa)

The National Party (Nasionale Party), also known as the Nationalist Party, was a political party in South Africa founded in 1914 and disbanded in 1997.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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Oilgate

Oilgate is a South African political scandal in which the petrol company Imvume Holdings was accused of paying R11 million of state money to the ruling African National Congress shortly before the elections.

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Philip Altbach

Philip G. Altbach is an American author, researcher and former professor at Boston College, and the founding director of the Boston College Center for International Higher Education.

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Press Freedom Index

The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders based upon the organisation's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year.

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Protection of State Information Bill

The South African Protection of State Information Bill, formerly named the Protection of Information Bill and commonly referred to as the Secrecy Bill, is a highly controversial piece of proposed legislation which aims to regulate the classification, protection and dissemination of state information, weighing state interests up against transparency and freedom of expression.

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Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

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Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (RWB), or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press.

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SA Sports Illustrated

SA Sports Illustrated was a South African sports magazine published in print monthly.

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Samizdat

Samizdat was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader.

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Satellite television

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.

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Sekunjalo Investments

Sekunjalo Investment Holdings (parent company of African Equity Empowerment Investments) is a South Africa-based private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, PIPEs, and buyouts.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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South African Broadcasting Corporation

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the state broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as 5 television broadcasts to the general public.

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South African comics

A South African comic is a book or periodical published in South Africa that contains sequential comic art stories.

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South African literature

South African literature is the literature of South Africa, which has 11 national languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda, SiSwati, Tsonga, and Ndebele.

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South African rand

The South African Rand (sign: R; code: ZAR) is the currency of South Africa.

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Steve Biko

Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Telkom (South Africa)

Telkom SA SOC Ltd. is a wireline and wireless telecommunications provider in South Africa, operating in more than 38 countries across the African continent.

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Telkom Media

Telkom Media is a pay-TV company based in South Africa.

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Thomas Pringle

Thomas Pringle (5 January 1789 – 5 December 1834) was a Scottish writer, poet and abolitionist.

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Times Media Group

Times Media Group is a media company in South Africa, formerly known as Johnnic Communications, then Avusa.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University press

A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in academic monographs and scholarly journals.

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Vodacom

Vodacom Group Limited (Vodacom) is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to over 55 million customers.

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Xhosa language

Xhosa (Xhosa: isiXhosa) is a Nguni Bantu language with click consonants ("Xhosa" begins with a click) and one of the official languages of South Africa.

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Zulu language

Zulu (Zulu: isiZulu) is the language of the Zulu people, with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_South_Africa

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