Research and advocacy have provided GL with useful information on gender gaps in the media leading to more informed and structured training initiatives. GL seeks to empower media practitioners with gender analysis skills and to build citizens capacity to hold media and governments accountable.
The training work has taken several dimensions including the development of a wide array of training materials and tools; short courses on different themes like gender violence, HIV and AIDS, gender, elections and the media and gender and economic reporting. In 2006, GL piloted a media literacy course for the general public in South Africa. This has since been extended to different targets groups in the region including school going learners, women in politics and journalism and media trainers. GL is taking forward the findings of the Gender in Media Education (GIME) audit through Centres of Excellence for mainstreaming gender in media education.
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Latest
Women in Politics - Fact Sheets
02 March 09
Regional relevance: South Africa
Download the Women in Politics facts sheets for Botswana, South Africa and Malawi. You can also download fact sheets for Gender and governance in Southern Africa and the SADC Gender Protocol and the Media [read more]
Gender, media and elections overview 2008 - 2009
27 February 09
Regional relevance: Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Southern Africa (SADC)
There will be ten national elections and one presidential election in the Southern Africa in 2009 and 2010. Gender Links will be conducting workshops in the ten SADC countries that will be having elections in 2009 and 2010, The workshops will target the media and women politicians. [read more]
DRC Business Unusual workshop report
27 February 09
Regional relevance: DRC
La formation " Business unusual, - sur le genre, l'éconornie et les medias" s'est tenue du 19 au 23 janvier a Kinshasa en Republique Democratique de Congo. [read more]
Gender, media and elections workshop report - South Africa
27 February 09
Regional relevance: South Africa
This report covers the Gender, Media and Elections workshops that were held in South Africa in January and February 2009. [read more]
Gender, media and elections - Malawi
30 January 09
Regional relevance: Malawi
Malawi is also one of the ten SADC countries that has fallen short of meeting the SADC target of
30 percent women in parliament by 2005. With a mere 25 (or 13 percent) of parliamentary
seats held by women it ranks 12th in the region and 87th globally. This is far below the new
target of 50 percent by 2015 set in... [read more]
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Shiny taxis are Gugu’s joy - Daily Sun
25 August 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
You could say Gugu Mbtaha likes washing cars – during the past 12 years she’s washed about 6000 cars, leaving them all gleaming clean. That’s how Gugu earns her living and she keeps the taxi owners happy at the Zola Taxi Rank in Soweto. Gugu (36) told the People’s Paper: “I could not afford to pay for... [read more]
Double tragedy for girl who was raped by own father - Midweek Sun
19 August 11
Regional relevance: Botswana
A 61 year old man is standing trial in Ramotswa. He allegedly pounced on his step-daughter and forced her to have sex with him the whole night after she had been gang-raped by two young men earlier that night. Bashi Ramaina is charged together with Bobo Refilwe Mokgadi, and Opelo Moeng - both aged 21 - who had... [read more]
AIDS: SA men reveal it all- Sowetan
15 August 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
This is another book that zeros in on the ravages of HIV/AIDS, a disease that has wrought so much devastation in Southern Africa in particular.
Indeed, in this age of global media, few are unaware of the HIV-Aids crisis facing South Africa. South African Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron has written the... [read more]
24 year old kills lover, commits suicide - The Midweek Sun
14 August 11
Regional relevance: Botswana
Police in Francistown are investigating a case in which a 24 year old man from Shashemooke village is alleged to have murdered his 21 year old girlfriend of the same village and later committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree. The incident happened at Block 2 and was confirmed by Kutlwano Police Deputy... [read more]
Man, 46, rapes girl, 3 - The Midweek Sun
10 August 11
Regional relevance: Botswana
The Motlhankanyane family in Kanye is reeling with and anger after their toddler was raped by a man 43 years her senior last week. [read more]
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