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On Thursday, the civilian secretariat of police responded to a public submission made jointly by the South African National Editors' Forum, Media Monitoring Africa and the Support.

Did the Sunday Times cross an editorial line? “Short answer, yes they did,” says William Bird, director of Media Monitoring Africa (left).

But while the president swept aside 10 of the so-called Gupta ministers, many of those held to be inept and incompetent are still in cabinet. They’ve lost power, but they are still in cabinet.

There can be little doubt that Primedia made a big mess of how they handled the Mark Jakins sexual harassment charges and his subsequent resignation.

While William Bird, director for Media Monitoring Africa, welcomed the move, he believes the SIU should go after Motsoeneng for more than just R21 million.

William Bird, the director of Media Monitoring Africa, referred to this decision as a “profoundly unfortunate decision” in an interview with The Daily Vox.

This open letter to Cyril Ramaphosa is a plea for a better media and communications strategy – and no more useless office.

This past week has been confusing for journalists and other South Africans who want to know when Zuma will go.

Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird defended eNCA, saying that its apology was legitimate.

Another twist of irony is that the Press Council and our Code of ethics and conduct for SA print and online media is acknowledged by the legislature in laws such as the Films and.

MMA and the SOS Coalition have called on the communication regulator Icasa not to grant the company the licence because of links with the controversial Gupta family.

Owing to the "controversies" associated with ANN7, MultiChoice said it would not renew its contract with the channel when it expired in August 2018.

“ANN7 will shortly close down and so too will The New Age. This group is doomed, and rightfully so.” Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird added that MultiChoice needed to show what their mistakes were.

It emerged that MultiChoice made the payment, allegedly in exchange for political influence over government policy on digital migration in its favour.

Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird said there were concerns that the briefing amounted to “smoke and mirrors” and that “if there’s nothing to hide” MultiChoice should.

The announcement comes weeks after the SOS Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa confirmed he was set to take over the position from ousted COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition recognised Lloyd’s enormous contribution to the broadcast arena and to the ongoing fight for media freedom.

The R500,000 payment made to SABC3 to interview Bathabile Dlamini over two hour-long episodes of "Real Talk With Anele" was inappropriate, problematic in many ways, and crossed.

The non-profit donation platform will be administered by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and will be funded by public donations.

On Monday, Media Monitoring Africa announced a "legal defence fund" for journalist and author Jacques Pauw to fight legal challenges over his explosive 2017 book, The President's.