President Zuma appoints five new MDDA board members The President of the Republic, his Excellency Jacob Zuma acting in terms of Section 4 (1) (b) and Section 4 (1) (c) of the MDDA Act appointed:

• Mr Phenyo Nonqane
• Ms Rene Alicia Smith
• Mr Jimmy Manyi
• Mr Thato Mahapa
• Ms Ingrid Louw
  
  as new Board members with effect from 01 January 2012 for a term of three years. This appointment follows a Parliamentary public participatory process, through the Portfolio Committee on Communications, which recommended Ms Rene Alicia Smith and Mr Phenyo Nonqane in terms of Section 4 (1) (b) of the MDDA Act. The other three (Ms Ingrid Louw, Mr. Thato Mahapa and Mr. Jimmy Manyi) are appointed by the President in terms of Section 4 (1) (c) taking into consideration Section 15 of the MDDA Act. They are from the commercial print media, commercial broadcast media and Government. 17 Jan 2012 Read more >>1
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Putting COP17 on the community media agenda
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Putting COP17 on the community media agenda
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa partnered with the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) to promote community media participation Read more >>2

Commission refers predatory pricing case against Media 24
Commission wants company fined 10% of turnover for driving Gold-Net News out of market. 2 Nov 2011 Read more >>3

Thank you Mr Themba Maseko (outgoing GCIS CEO) and best wishes in your new appointment
The MDDA extends its words of thanks to the former Cabinet Spokesperson and CEO of the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), Mr Themba Maseko for his support and professional way in which he related with the MDDA during his tenure as the Accounting Officer of the GCIS from June 2006. 4 Feb 2011 Read more >>4

NCRF welcomes the newly appointed MDDA Board of Directors
The National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) would like to take this opportune time to welcome MDDA newly appointed Board of Directors (Ms. Louise Vale, Ms. Phelisa Nkomo and Ms. Nadia Bulbulia).5
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MDDA INTRODUCES AND WELCOME NEW STAFF MEMBERS
The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) is happy to welcome the following people newly appointed people into the ranks of the Agency, as of the 10th January 2011.)
Mr. Nkopane Maphiri– Programme Director
Nkopane Maphiri has an extensive background in the community media space, policy development and media advocacy. He has worked as the CEO of the NCRF and served on the AMARC Africa Board. Nkopane also brings to the Agency his vast knowledge of the advertising industry, having served on the SAARF RAMS scrutiny committee for a number of years. He has worked as a marketing and advertising trainer and he authored the marketing and advertising toolkit for community radio and community print. Nkopane Maphiri has been a marketing and advertising consultant, and he has over the years done work for several private sector and public sector institutions. Nkopane Maphiri is a graduate of the AAA School of Advertising. 6

Ms Kgomotso Moeketsi –Manager in the CEO’s Office
Highly regarded as one of the most creative minds in South African radio/media landscape, Kgomotso brings to the MDDA a wealth of experience from commercial radio and TV, and experience of the public broadcast space as well. She spent her early years in the broadcasting industry working for the now defunct Bop Radio and TV, and continued to niche herself in the greenfields radio stations after Icasa issued those licenses, earning accolades and prominence in both P4 Radio and Kaya FM, both as an on-air presenter and Programming Manager. She also spent 2 years working the strategic post of Project Manager: Programming for SABC3. She is also a sought after radio consultant. Most recently, she has been hosting a talk show on Radio 2000, a slot she continues to fill because ‘A burgeoning and thriving democracy needs sound voices to discuss pivotal structural democracy matters’.
The MDDA looks forward to having the wealth of experience and maturity that both these individuals bring, to enhance its functions of developing and diversifying the media landscape, in its pursuit to promote, support and encourage media development and diversity.
Issued by:
Mr. Lumko Mtimde, Chief Executive OfficerFor further information please contact: Hariet Mhlanga at (011) 642 1125
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Podcast: A Perspective on Girlhood

Podcast: Gender Violence in Education
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Media Literacy and Culture of Reading Summit - Mafikeng, North West in March 2010
The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) convened a Media Literacy and Culture of Reading Summit on 26 - 27 March 2010 at the Council Chambers, Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, Mafikeng in the North West. The theme for the summit is “Basic Media Literacy Education - ‘Constructing Views of Reality’”.

The MDDA has a mandate to create an enabling environment for media development and diversity that is conducive to public discourse and that which reflects the needs and aspirations of all South Africans. Further, Section 3 (v) of the MDDA Act requires the Agency to support initiatives which promote literacy and a culture of reading.

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The article published by City Press on the 15th November 2009 titled “Letsebe’s Bogus CV earns MDDA promotion” is bordering on inaccuracy and unfairness against article 1.1 of the South African Press Code. Further, the article violates articles 1.2, 1.3, 1.10, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, etc. of the South African Press Code as outlines below:

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Speech by the Minister of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities
Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya

Transformation, Gender and the Media Dialogue
19 October 2009
Programme Director
Honoured guests
Ladies and Gentlemen

Thank you very much for the invitation to participate in this dialogue.
It is very encouraging that we are making an effort as a society to engage on this critical issue of gender and transformation. Thank you very much to all the organizations that worked together to make this dialogue possible in particular the MDDA, CGE, SABC, SAHRC and ICASA. We certainly need not forget our difficult history including that infamous Black Wednesday when apartheid government banned three publications on the 19th of October 1977.

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“Coal City is one of the community media projects funded by the MDDA, and it gives us great pleasure to know that they are making strides in social development and providing relevant information to communities that were formerly deprived of any form of media,” said Mr. Lumko Mtimde, Chief Executive Officer of the MDDA.

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