The Virtual Resource Centre (VRC) is an online resource centre for trainers, educators, journalists, gender and media advocates and students. The VRC includes case studies and clippings of media articles.
The VRC case studies and clippings may be searched using the following criteria: * Country * Theme * Skills * GEM classification (The GL Gender and Media classification system highlights whether an article illustrates a blatant or subtle gender stereotype; is gender aware or gender blind. Click here read more on the GEM classification. )
Both the media clippings and case studies have a description of the article. The case studies are written as training resources and include an analysis of the articles from a gender and journalistsic perspective and links to other training resources. The media article is attached as a jpeg to the case studies and clippings.
To search the VRC database click here. You can search for clippings; case studies or both by ticking the relevant boxes.
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The ANC Youth League has come under fire for failing to elect more females into top leadership. Gender activist group Sonke Gender Justice Network has slammed the ANCYL, whose top five positions remain under patriarchal domination. [read more]
This is a story that was published for Father's Day. It is about a woman who regrets neglecting her father for many years until her father died. She tells of how painful it feels to be away from her parents for many years and to only to see them when they die. The writer says she focused on building her career and... [read more]
Father's Day has a different meaning to different people. For some it is a commercial venture, whereas for others it is a day when children yearn for their absent fathers. This article is about how children need father figures to teach them constructions of masculinity and identity. The story focuses on the need for... [read more]
A mother has told of how she had to break down the door of a hut to save her daughter from being burnt alive, in an attempted murder and arson case befoe the courts.The mother, Lucky Moseki told the court that she had to use an axe to chop down the door, which had been tied with wire, as the hut was being consumed... [read more]
The trial of seven men accused of killing a Rasesa woman resumed before Justice Zibani Makhwade yesterday with four witnesses testifying.Obakeng Leagajang, Patrick Kgwefane, Rapula Molemane, Victor Leshage, Chona Malinda, Bashi Malinda, and Akanyang Malinda are charged with a single count of murder, armed robbery,... [read more]
A convicted serial rapist yesterday told the Krugersdorp regional court that his lust for sex led him to go on a raping spree for four years. Shavani Phophi, 32, shocked the court when he told magistrate Keith Page that whenever he was next to a woman his desire for sex grows. "I have a sexual problem. Every time I... [read more]
Police have cornered and arrested a man who yesterday murdered his lover's mother in Orange Farm and then travelled to Soweto to kill a man he believed was his girlfriend's boyfriend. [read more]
Moshupa Police are investigating a case in which a 33 year old lady who was reported to have been raped by 3 young men aged 18,17 and 22 years at Masokwe lands in Moshupa Sub District.
Acting Station Commander Michael Maphephu told The Mirror that the victim came with with her boyfriend (34) and the spent the night... [read more]
Eleven years ago a brave and fragile boy stood on a huge stage at the World Aids Conference in Durban and made an impassioned plea on behalf of people living with HIV. Last night, 10 years after the death of Nkosi Johnson, Mandisa Dlamoni stood on a stage during the 5th South African Aids Conference in that city and... [read more]
Late ANC stalwart Albertina Sisulu was a leader in her own right and was not just a wife of Walter Sisulu, ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantasha said yesterday. In the minds of many people Mama Sisulu was Walter Sisulu's wife. In her own right she was leader and activist, therefore she is not just an extension of... [read more]
