For a moment, the tale of a woman in Tembisa, northeast of Johannesburg, and her record-breaking '10 babies' seemed like a welcome distraction from the depressing grind of Covid-19, political intrigue and state failures. But it was a very brief moment. Read more
Media Freedom Day in South Africa marks the anniversary of a brutal crackdown by the apartheid state on the media and the Black Consciousness Movement. Read more
SA’s community radio sector has grown to be a significant player. But there’s comparatively little hard information on it. Wits Radio Academy has conducted a survey of community radio stations. Read more
The LocalVoices project shows up the weaknesses of mainstream media coverage, which focuses too strongly on the big names, the major drama and the grand narrative. Read more
Prisoner, journalist, author Hugh Lewin, who headed the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism from 1998 as its executive director and helped start the journalism programme at Wits, has died. Read more
From exposes on the Nkandla scandal to the Gupta emails, which detailed the extent of state capture, journalistic investigations have set the public agenda. Read more
