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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"South African media"”.
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Oblique figures : representations of Islam in South African media and culture
In 1996 stories in South African newspapers about the group Pagad articulated a new vision of Islam. In this thesis I conduct a long reading of the ways in which Islam has been represented in South Africa to provide a context for analysing the Pagad stories. Drawing on Edward Said's Orientalism and …
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The Zimbabwean threat: media representations of immigrants in the South African media
… thesis is a multimodal discourse analysis of the media representations of Zimbabwean immigrants in the South African media. The aim of the investigation is to illustrate how Zimbabwean immigration and Zimbabwean immigrants are portrayed in the print media in South Africa. For the theoretical and …
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Hungry for the other: representation of HIV/AIDS in the South African media
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-69).
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A retrospective analysis of the circumstantial factors contributing to drowning incidents reported in the South African media
… to fatal drowning incidents reported in the South African media between January 2017 and March 2021 through a retrospective analysis of the Lifesaving South Africa media report database. There were 767 fatal drowning incidents reported during this period. Two thirds (66%) of reported …
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The Pandemic of Being a Woman: A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Media on GBV at the Time of COVID-19
A decolonial feminist discourse analysis of the media's reporting on Gender Based Violence (GBV) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted. One hundred and fifty articles were collected from the Sabinet database. From this eight discourses were identified: GBV as a pandemic; GBV …
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The impact of perceptions of China’s human rights and sustainable development on its soft power initiatives in South Africa
… and sustainability record in the mainstream South African media. It also explored the factors that influence both South African and Chinese journalists and its potential effects on their coverage of China’s sustainable development and human rights impact. Through its “Going Out” policy, China …
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Recent discourses on vigilantism within South Africa
Reports of vigilantism are common in South African media today, where it is portrayed as a growing trend of reactionary violence against the perception of a high crime rate in the country and a criminal justice system which is failing the public. At the same time, the South African Police Service …
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Social representation of violence against women in the media: a South African study
The South African mass media has been recognised as playing an important role in influencing individual understandings of social issues, including domestic violence against women. However, few research studies have exclusively investigated the way in which messages concerning domestic violence …
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Media Representations of Gender-Based Violence Against Black Women: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis
… violence (GBV) is a well-known problem, with South Africa having one of the highest rates of GBV in the world. Additionally, South African media plays a role in how and what information about GBV is disseminated. This work looks at two case studies to investigate how the media represents GBV …
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The Maputo Corridor : politics and pragmatic development in Southern Africa
… development project undertaken by the South African government since 1994. The Corridor is an extremely complex project, bringing together a variety of actors from South Africa, Mozambique, and beyond. The project includes the rehabilitation and upgrading of major transport and …
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Desperately seeking depth: global and local narratives of the South African general elections on television news, 1994 - 2014
… trend in late-20th century political journalism "mediatisation", where the televisualisation of Western elections favours episodic, dramatic, fragmented, and event-driven reporting. This "hype-ocracy" results in narrow and shallow frames that entertain rather than enlighten. This thesis, titled …
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Towards press freedom through self–regulation : trends in South African press ombudsman cases (August 2007 – August 2011)
Recent attacks on media freedom in South Africa, that includes the ruling ANC party's proposal for statutory regulation of the press, have seen press self-regulation fiercely contested and the ombudsman of the Press Council of South Africa (PCSA) defending the press' constitutional right to freedom …