Media Law Handbook for Eastern Africa

Volume 1

Volume 1 of the Media Law Handbook for Eastern Africa is a practical guide for journalists practicing in Burundi, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The handbook not only contains a comprehensive overview of applicable media laws for each country reviewed, it also contains suggestions on possible law reforms to improve the protection of media in these countries.

Media Law Handbook for Eastern Africa

Volume 2

Volume 2 of the Media Law Handbook for Eastern Africa is a practical guide for journalists practising in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. The handbook not only contains a comprehensive overview of applicable media laws for each country reviewed, it also contains suggestions on possible law reforms to improve the protection of media in these countries.

The SABC and its Recent Crisis

A Chronicle of Events

At the end of May, two months before the municipal elections, South Africa’s public broadcaster SABC announced it would no longer show footage of the destruction of public property during protests. The censorship caused massive protest from Civil Society organisations and led to a two month crisis at the broadcaster. Our chronicle gives an overview of what has happened.

KAS Media Africa Scholarship 2017: Call for applications

KAS Media Africa is offering a university scholarship to a promising, young (under 30) sub-Saharan African journalist to do a full-time Honours or Masters Degree at the University of Witwatersrand's Journalism Programme in Johannesburg in 2017.

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NET ACTIVISM AND SOUTH AFRICAN PROTEST CULTURE

Former KAS Media Africa intern Flora Hartmann writes about South African students taking to the streets and the role social media is playing in the country’s ‘born-free’ generation’s protest.

Using Social Media for Political Communication in Africa

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube - especially since the Arab Spring has the potential of social media to influence politics gained worldwide attention. This is also true for the political sphere in Sub-Saharan Africa, although one might argue that the potential is not yet fully exploited.

Drops in the ocean

Refugees in South Africa

During her research visit at KAS Media Africa, Carlotta Voss visited several Johannesburg-based NGOs that provide help to refugees in need. Here is the feature article she wrote about the people she met and the general situation of refugees in South Africa.

Xenophobie und Medien in Südafrika

Im April 2015 haben in Südafrika die schwersten fremdenfeindlichen Attacken seit 2008 stattgefunden. Damals war den Medien vorgeworfen worden, die Situation durch tendenziöse und vorurteilsbeladene Berichterstattung verschlimmert zu haben. Wie haben die Medien dieses Mal reagiert? Eine Analyse von Verena Löffler.

KAS Media Africa Scholarship: Call for Applications

KAS Media Africa is offering two scholarships for promising, young (under 30) journalists from Sub-Saharan Africa to do a full-time Honours or Masters Degree at the University of Witwatersrand's Journalism Programme in Johannesburg.

Mosambik nach dem Mord an Verfassungsrechtler Gilles Cistac

Der mosambikanische Verfassungsrechtler Giles Cistac wurde am 3. März 2015 gegen 8.50 Uhr auf offener Straße mit vier Schüssen von bisher noch unbekannten Tätern ermordet. Cistac war ein Dozent der Rechtsfakultät der Eduardo Mondlane-Universität in Maputo. Über mehr als zehn Jahre hatte der auf Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Verfassungsfragen spezialisierte Mosambikaner mit algerischen Wurzeln als Partner mit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung zusammengearbeitet.