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  South African Broadcasting Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SABC began the first radio broadcasts in South Africa in the 1920s, establishing services in what were then the country's official languages, English and Afrikaans, with broadcasts in African languages such as Zulu, Xhosa Sesotho and Tswana, following later.
As the state-controlled broadcaster, the SABC was accused of bias towards the apartheid regime.
SABC's government connections also came under scrutiny when, in April 2005, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was interviewed live by Zikalala, who is a former ANC political commissar [3].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_African_Broadcasting_Corporation   (1382 words)

  
 South African Broadcasting Corporation, Norman Oder - CJR, Nov/Dec 91
Critics have long disparaged the South African Broadcasting Corporation as "his master's voice," alluding to the state-owned broadcaster's faithful adherence to government views.
In September, a government-appointed task group on broadcasting, headed by Viljoen, recommended that the airwaves to "depoliticized" through the introduction of an Independent Broadcasting Authority, an idea that may be addressed when the white-dominated parliament meets in February.
The prime television channel, TV1, broadcasts in English and Afrikaans, the two official languages, and none of its anchors, or newsreaders, is fl.
archives.cjr.org /year/91/6/southafrica.asp   (733 words)

  
 List of South African television channels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South African Broadcasting Corporation's TV channels still dominate the airwaves in South Africa.
In 2003, the New South African TV channel (NSAT) announced plans to broadcast on Sky Digital in the UK, thereby reaching the large (predominantly white) expatriate community.
The first free-to-air commercial broadcaster was etv, which officially launched in 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_South_African_television_channels   (248 words)

  
 UNESCO >> WebWorld | Communication and Information | Public Service Broadcasting : A comparative Legal Survey | South ...
A completely new Broadcasting Act(106), the key legislation governing the SABC, was adopted in 1999 (the 1999 Act), replacing the former 1976 Act, and the changes introduced by the new law have yet to be fully implemented.
Formally, under the 1999 Act, the SABC has been transformed into a limited liability company with a share capital and subject to the Companies Act, although Section 7 recognises that the normal rules for companies will need to be modified to take into account the special nature of the SABC as a corporation.
Viewed collectively, Section 13 requires members of the Board to have suitable qualifications, expertise and experience in various broadcasting areas, to be committed to fairness, freedom of expression, the objects of the SABC and accountability, and to represent a broad cross-section of the population.
www.unesco.org /webworld/publications/mendel/saf.html   (2259 words)

  
 Parliamentary Submission on the Broadcasting Bill [B94-98] Presented to the Portfolio Committee on Communications, 11 ...
The SABC was created to serve the interests of perpetuating apartheid oppression; and its services were devised along ethnic and racial, class, language, and geographic lines.
The commercialisation model proposed for the SABC is based on the notion that the corporation should become self-sufficient whilst funding from the fiscus is gradually decreased.
The bill presumes that all community broadcasters should be organised to serve a geographic community whilst the IBA Act, in a provision not amended by the bill, recognises that community broadcasters may serve either geographic or interest-based communities.
www.cosatu.org.za /docs/1998/broadcbi.htm   (8530 words)

  
 Mots Pluriels Gary M. Mersham
South African scholars have long argued that the nationalist government's divide and rule strategy used ethnic labelling to sustain and legitimate apartheid polices by naturalising the concept of ethnicity through correlation with cultural integrity and independence (Tomaselli 1987:10; Mersham 1990; 1993).
South African media commentators argue that it appears that public opinion has turned, and the government is moving towards restricting immigration, signalling a "remarkable reversal of the national will on this matter".
South Africa is experiencing a large inflow of legal and illegal immigrants from African countries to its north, and incidents of xenophobic behaviour are on the rise (Mersham 1999:67).
www.arts.uwa.edu.au /MotsPluriels/MP1300gm.html   (10196 words)

  
 South Africa's Free Media Have No Friend in Mbeki: Robert Rotberg
Broadcasters who provide "misinformation" that causes currency devaluations, for example, are not appropriately "accountable to South Africa." They would be doing a disservice to the nation.
Since it broadcasts in South Africa's 11 official languages, and blankets the country in a way that none of the private TV and radio stations do, the South African Broadcasting Corporation has power and reach.
South Africa's media are still more free than the media in much of the rest of Africa, and indeed in the entire developing world.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/opeds/2002/rotberg_mbeki_media_csm_091602.htm   (695 words)

  
 BBC News | MONITORING | Critics rap South African broadcasting proposals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This was followed soon afterwards by reports that the cabinet was proposing to merge the IBA and the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA) into a single body, which would report directly to the minister of communications.
South Africa's media watchdog groups have their own very different visions of what the SABC's future role should be.
But one issue on which most observers agree is that these differences need to be resolved promptly if South Africa is to reap the full benefit of the great foreign interest now being shown in investing in its broadcasting sector, and specifically in the new free-to-air commercial TV channel due to be licensed imminently.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/monitoring/66907.stm   (709 words)

  
 AEGiS-AFP News: SAfrica-AIDS: Anti-AIDS television message withdrawn for crude language: ATTENTION - CONTAINS OFFENSIVE ...
Uys, former South African president Nelson Mandela and Deputy President Jacob Zuma were among the ten chosen leaders.
South Africa has an estimated 1,600 new HIV infections daily and some 4.7 million people living with the deadly disease.
SABC spokeswoman Nalini Ramdhani confirmed the advertisement was withdrawn "because of the language" and said it would be replaced by "suitable" loveLife advertisements.
www.aegis.com /NEWS/AFP/2002/AF0207L1.html   (482 words)

  
 Vignette > Customer Case Studies > South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The largest public broadcaster in South Africa, SABC provides a comprehensive range of distinctive programs and services to inform, educate, entertain, support and develop culture and education for the various audience groups in the country.
SABC needed a framework for managing content from various sources and a workflow application that would standardize and automate content creation, review, approval and publishing processes.
SABC is already benefiting from reduced times for approval and release, and faster turnaround times for authoring new page and affecting changes.
www.vignette.com /contentmanagement/0,2097,1-1-31-1665-1054-4720,00.html?vgn_rms_id=195_79   (552 words)

  
 South Africa Manuscript
The South African Defense and Police Forces secured the apartheid state and ascertained that all races remained separated and unequal as stipulated by the stringent laws.
In the first instance, the segment of the population that was politically repressed and marginalized by the mainstream media was indeed the majority, not the minority as the case may be in otherwise similar contexts.
South Africa's ongoing experiment has, however, verified that African governments do not have to solely bear the cost of extending radio services to and engaging disenfranchised rural and semi-urban communities.
www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/a/x/axo8/Joburg/manuscript.htm   (7602 words)

  
 CNN.com - CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition
Finalists of the CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition, held in partnership with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and sponsored by a number of top pan-African companies, were announced today by Dr. Doyinsola Abiola, Chairperson of the independent judging panel.
The CNN African Journalist of the Year and other winners in the various categories will be announced at a gala awards ceremony at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on May 15, 2002.
The CNN African Journalist of the Year competition is open to professional journalists/technicians including freelancers working on the African continent for media organisations based on the continent and are locally owned or publish a publication in Africa.
edition.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/africanawards/press.8apr02.html   (599 words)

  
 Babesiosis
He said experts from Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa and the United States were now in Ngorongoro studying the issue and a comprehensive report is expected soon.
American, Kenyan and South African wildlife scientists are in Tanzania to study a strange disease which has been decimating hundreds of animals in the world famous Ngorongoro Crater in the northern tourist circuit of the country.
Lions in Tanzania are being driven to an early grave by swarms of bloodthirsty flies.
www.ntz.info /gen/n01140.html   (1264 words)

  
 Business Wire: South African Broadcasting Corporation Consolid... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
SABC, a provider of a comprehensive range of distinctive programs and services to inform, entertain and educate audiences in the country, selected Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading information technology consulting organization, to deploy the Vignette solution.
The SABC is the national public service broadcaster committed to fulfilling their national mandate and bringing South Africa (and Africa) world-class entertainment, education and information.
SABC is the broadcasting power house of the continent, wherein lies their vision: To be the Pulse of Africa's Creative Spirit.
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:134898950&refid=ink_tptd_np   (1131 words)

  
 South Africa Broadcast History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Broadcasts were made in three Bantu languages to the townships in Soweto west of Johannesburg.
In February 1965, broadcasts in Venda and Tsonga were inaugurated from studios in Johannesburg and transmitted from stations in the Northern Transvaal province.
The broadcast infrastructure in South Africa is operated by Sentech (Ltd.), which was originally formed as the signal distribution company of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in October 1992.
www.oldradio.com /archives/international/safrica.html   (1526 words)

  
 Chyron News: Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
SABC’s three stations, deal with the diversity of South African culture addressing each of the countries languages.
SABC 1, a youth channel broadcasts in both Nguni and English, SABC 2, a family focussed channel broadcasts in Sotho, Afrikaans and English, and the third channel, SABC 3, has a cosmopolitan focus broadcasting in English only.
The Company the Whole World Watches, Chyron Corporation is a leading developer of broadcast television graphics software and hardware ranging from high-definition turnkey systems to OEM board-level solutions.
www.chyron.com /news/newsroom/newsroom/2004/04-05-12-sabc.html   (447 words)

  
 Drug Access | Drug Companies Withdraw AIDS Drug Lawsuit Against South Africa - Kaisernetwork.org
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of South Africa and 39 pharmaceutical companies today agreed to drop their lawsuit against the South African government over a law that would allow the country to import and manufacture cheaper generic AIDS drugs, the
Under the agreement, South Africa "promise[d]" that the implementation of its 1997 Medicines and Related Substances Control Act would comply with the rules of the World Trade Organization.
As the South African case draws to a close, attention now shifts to the suit being brought by the U.S. government and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association of America against Brazil.
www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=4113   (850 words)

  
 Michael Mosoeu Moerane, South African Composer, Pianist & Choral Director   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael Mosoeu Moerane, late uncle of South Africa's President, Mr Thabo Mbeki, was born in Lesotho in 1909.
The National Symphony Orchestra of the South African Broadcasting Corporation is led by Peter Marchbank, Conductor.
It explained that South Africa's future President Thabo Mbeki lived with his uncle's family for two years when he was a young child in the early 1950s, and his uncle taught him to play the flute.
www.homestead.com /chevalierdesaintgeorges/Moerane.html   (646 words)

  
 Africa's First 3D Animated Series To Premiere on March 25   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The series is based on African folktales, partially collected from interviews conducted with elders in villages across South Africa.
It is also an achievement to broadcast the series in English, Sesotho, Afrikaans and isiZulu and we intend to eventually broadcast in all 11 official languages – another first for SABC 2!” says Bessie Tugwana, SABC 2’s General Manager.
South Africa’s children will get to recognize themselves in the series and the world will get to enjoy Africa’s long history of story-telling.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/3/prweb361327.htm   (622 words)

  
 South African Astronomical Observatory - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about South African Astronomical Observatory
National observatory of South Africa at Sutherland, founded in 1973 after the merger of the Royal Observatory, Cape Town, and the Republic Observatory, Johannesburg, and operated by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of South Africa.
South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /South+African+Astronomical+Observatory   (147 words)

  
 World Music Central - Reshaping of South African Classics
FJ and Living Souls have stretched and reshaped the compositions with layers of their own vocals, additional drum tracks, bass and keyboards to create something new from something old without diminishing the power of the original material.
This is a soulful piece in the tradition of the South African male choir.
The bright South African flute and tabla loop on "Ngikhalela" is an interesting hybrid of mixed African and Indian rhythms.
www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20051028203215376   (645 words)

  
 Sesame Workshop :: South African TV Special 'Takalani Sesame's Talk to Me' Honored with Prestigious Japan Prize
They were widely distributed to educators, parents, and caregivers, and were estimated to benefit more than 2 million children in four regions of the country.(3) These resources reinforced and expanded upon the educational messages in the Takalani Sesame radio and television programs, and played an important role in the success of the project.
The Takalani Sesame project is a partnership of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Kwasukasukela, and Sesame Workshop.
Takalani Sesame is brought to the children of South Africa through funding that has been provided in part by the United States Agency for International Development in support of the South African Department of Education and by Sanlam, the exclusive corporate sponsor of the project.
sev.prnewswire.com /entertainment/20051102/NYW19702112005-1.html   (620 words)

  
 South African Broadcasting Corporation choose Pinnacle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pinnacle Systems have announced that the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the public broadcaster for the Republic of South Africa, are to implement Pinnacle's Vortex solution at the corporation's studios in Johannesburg, creating the most modern newsroom facility ever deployed in Africa.
The deal, worth over $1 million, will provide SABC with the foundation from which they will produce seventeen different news bulletins per day in all eleven official South African languages.
Vortex is essentially the central nervous system of SABC's news function, and through it all areas of the news process can be controlled, from ingest to playout, with everything from editing to graphics creation and timeline management being managed by Vortex.
www.4rfv.co.uk /industrynews.asp?id=23955   (503 words)

  
 Govin Reddy - South African journalist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Reddy played a central role in the transformation of the South African Broadcasting Corporation from a state to public broadcaster under the Mandela government.
He is a past president of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and a founder and Deputy Chairman of the Media Institute of Southern Africa.
In 2003 he was appointed to the board of the Media Development and Diversity Agency by the South African Parliament.
www.udel.edu /global/globalmedia/reddybio.html   (232 words)

  
 Interview by the South African Broadcasting Corporation
I think the President also wanted, by his visit to South Africa and to the continent, to demonstrate his commitment to this war that we all must participate in, and this is the war against HIV/AIDS.
This was a terrible, tyrannical regime and we have not lost any face and we have no apologies to make for working with likeminded nations in pursuit of authority with authority in UN Resolution 1441, and so we did not come as a PR exercise.
In their respective interviews with the SABC, President Bush spoke about his stand on Zimbabwe, that he would like to see more democratic reform but that he wouldn't want to put pressure on Mr.
www.state.gov /secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/22372.htm   (2752 words)

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