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Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) says it will look for ways to challenge the President’s powers in appointing a SABC Board, after consulting its legal team.

Meanwhile, the Director of Media Monitoring Africa, William Bird has expressed relief at the appointment of the board.

William Bird of Media Monitoring Africa, said: We are relieved that the appointments have been made, but there are still key questions about how this was handled by the president,.

“Each day that goes by without a board, the proper functioning of the public broadcaster is jeopardised, which in turn threatens the functioning of our constitutional democracy.

Civil society organisation Media Monitoring Africa filed papers at the Constitutional Court while SOS coalition, an organisation which supports public broadcasting, had also.

Ramaphosa was taken to court by the non-profit Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) on 24 February after failing to appoint the SABC board for months.

While plainly baseless and embarrassing for Al Jama-ah, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) believes that the party is setting a dangerous precedent in how politicians engage with the media.

Media interest groups, the SOS Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa, filed an urgent application in the Constitutional Court over the now five-month.

The amici curiae include the South African National Editors Forum (Sanef), Media Monitoring Africa and the Campaign for Free Expression - which have joined Maughan's challenge and.

Sanef, Media Monitoring Africa, and the Campaign for Free Expression highlighted in their submissions that Zuma's private prosecution of Maughan was a bid to intimidate her, an issue many female journalists encounter.

Advocate Catherine Kruyer, on behalf of the Campaign for Free Expression, Media Monitoring Africa Trust and the South African National Editors Forum, said the aim was to “deprive.

What on earth is happening at the SABC? For five months President Cyril Ramaphosa has failed to appoint the board of the public broadcaster.

JOHANNESBURG - Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) said that any concerns about the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) shortlisted candidates should have been raised five.

Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird said that if MPs had questions around former SABC news head Phathiswa Magopeni’s suitability to sit on the public broadcaster’s board, they should have raised them months ago.

Earlier, Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Mondli Gungubele spoke before the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies on the implementation of the SABC board.

McKaiser also invited Markovitz to reflect on the legal battle undertaken by Media Monitoring Africa to compel Ramaphosa to confirm the names of the board.

In 2018, Naidu won the Mandy Roussow award for Great Idea in the Media Monitoring Africa lsu Elihle Awards.

At the weekend, the Sunday Times reported that civil society body Media Monitoring Africa has taken Ramaphosa to the Constitutional Court on an urgent basis, asking it to compel.

On Sunday, the Presidency defended the delay in the appointment of the board saying it is not due to the dereliction of duty on the part of the president.

The public broadcaster has been without a board since mid-October. The organisation's William Bird says the absence of a board places the SABC at risk.