Journalism educators are often faced with a serious challenge in regard to appropriate teaching and reference materials. While there are many texts available on journalism and media studies, few of them emanate from or make reference to local contexts. This is even more of a challange when one is seeking material on gender and diversity issues.
Gender Links has created this online resource centre using artefacts that are being produced by writers and photographers in the Southern African region. These case studies have been structured using three main criteria: gender, type of journalism and theme. The case studies use the clippings to engage further with key issues and to tease out the relevant themes of the selected articles.The contributers also conduct an analysis of the artefact, and make suggestions for possible dialogues that can emerge from the issues presented. An important part of the package for trainers and educators is the inclusion of trainer's notes for each case study. These notes provide a lesson plan and a method for running a particular session.
As a trainig resource the Case Studies include information on:
How an article may be used.
Trainers notes
Discussion questions
Training exercises
Links to other training resources
Related GL commentaries
The Case Studies crticically engage with the text at hand, and use it as a catalyst to discuss broader gender and diversity issues.
You may browse case studies by country below or for more search options, click here.
The article describes how President Jacob Zuma missed it when he justified his having sexual relations with daughters of his friends as being a ‘traditional African man’
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Women in politics make their mark and their presence is felt, but not by the media. “Political confrontations a sign of immaturity, says Kabonde,” is a news item reflecting the comments of Inspector General of Police, Francis Kabonde. He is of the opinion that police protection should not be afforded to people... [read more]
The four Zapiro cartoons examine recent scandals surrounding South African President Jacob Zuma, particularly with regards to Zuma’s fathering a child out of wedlock, and his generally questionable sexual behaviour. The cartoons also reference a statement Zuma made during his 2008 rape case that he knew the woman... [read more]
The two articles “Baby Snatcher Jailed” and “Bid to Please Hubby Backfires” report a story of a Zimbabwean woman who received two years imprisonment after pleading guilty to kidnapping charges, after a baby went missing. A third article published by the GL Opinion and Commentary Service offers a more gender [read more]
This article based on a Teazers club billboard deemed offensive by a cross section of people in South Africa’s Johannesburg City. The billboard shows a woman with super sized breasts lying on her back, with knees bent and one hand covering her breasts. The words no need for gender testing a written across the... [read more]
South African glossy magazine You, ran a four page spread of the 800m world champion Caster Mokgadi Semenya that carries pictures of her at the centre of a gender testing controversy, wearing makeup, jewelery, a new hairstyle and a glamorous dress. An Australian newspaper broke a story of how International... [read more]
Cape Town High Court hears that Cape Town police have been using “bylaws that never made it onto the statute books” to arrest sex workers in the city and Sweat, the sex workers’ advocacy group, is seeking an interdict from the court to prevent police from harassing prostitutes by repeatedly arresting them –... [read more]
