SANEF in partnership with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism is hosting a series of webinars to accompany the relaunch of the Reporting the Courts manual.
The next instalment of the Reporting the Courts webinar series looks at the role of the judiciary and the office of the chief justice featuring @CASACZA @WhyJudgesMatter and the @HelenSuzmanFdn.
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) in partnership with Sanlam would like to formally invite you to our webinar; The role of the digital economy in South African media post Covid-19.
Please see below details of the webinar and the zoom link for connection.
Topic: Webinar: The role of the digital economy in South African media post Covid-19
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is disappointed by news that the eThekwini Municipality has not fulfilled a promise to restore the dedicated tomb of anti- apartheid icon, journalist Nathaniel Nat Nakasa.
His gravesite and that of former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa, were vandalised in 2021. Nat, whose legacy is celebrated in SANEF’s annual Nat Nakasa Courageous Journalism award, died in Upstate New York in 1965.
At the time he was on a one-way visa in the US, on a Nieman Scholarship, to escape threats to his life under the apartheid regime. SANEF, together with the Nakasa family and a range of stakeholders, worked tirelessly for years to bring the remains back to his childhood suburb of Chesterville outside Durban.
In 2014 his remains were returned to SA for reburial at the Chesterville cemetery Hero Acres site, a fulfilment of his last wish to return home to the country where he was born. Sanef is saddened by the turn of events and calls on the municipality to restore his gravesite – that is considered a shrine to journalism.
He paid a high price for his sacrifices, and everything must be done to restore his final resting place. SANEF has contacted the municipality division that was responsible for the reburial as well as the eThekwini municipality in the hope that the gravesites can be properly restored and bring comfort to all.
SANEF calls on the eThekwini Municipality to ensure better security at the Hero Acres as such vandalism cannot be allowed with criminals running amok and there is no prosecution.
Note to Editors: The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is a non-profit organisation whose members are editors, senior journalists, and journalism trainers from all areas of the South African media. We are committed to championing South Africa’s hard-won freedom of expression and promoting quality, ethics, and diversity in the South African media. We promote excellence in journalism through fighting for media freedom, writing policy submissions, research and education and training programmes. SANEF is not a union.
The Awards encourage and recognise excellent journalistic work. Over the years, the Standard Bank Sikuvile Awards have become one of the key highlights in journalism awards.
The awards see the best of the best across various journalistic platforms being benchmarked against their peers by a panel of top quality and highly credible judges.
Previously called the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards (MSNA), in recent years the awards have been known as the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards. Standard Bank has now contracted the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) to oversee the organisation of the awards. SANEF is the most influential media freedom advocacy grouping in South Africa. SANEF members are veteran founding editors, current title editors, senior editors and journalists working in print, broadcasting, and digital mainstream at national, regional and community media levels. It also serves media trainers and academics from major journalism departments and training institutions across the country.
SANEF’s vision is to promote quality and ethical journalism across all media platforms, while reflecting SA’s diversity, and to champion freedom of expression. The awards are planned to be the national flagship of ethical and credible journalism awards across the media platforms which is Print, Digital, Radio and TV.
The Awards event will be attended by Standard Bank’s executives, senior journalists, editors, publishers, executives from the advertising, PR/marketing, and media agencies as well as clients and service providers to the entire newspaper industry.
Awards and Event Management Services
SANEF would like to invite event management companies and individuals to bid to manage the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards processes and event:
SANEF is seeking bids to help it organise
Management of fair and transparent invitation for applications across various categories
Publicise the awards and promote its theme and concept to the broader media fraternity without prejudice to any media platform
Be instrumental in the secretariat from ensuring all the entries are sorted, recorded, and ensure they are qualifying, and that information is complete. They should arrange packages for the judges
Work closely with the SANEF office in ensuring the judging process is smoothly run, resourceful and efficient
Facilitate the communication with shortlisted candidates. Source trophies and certificates
Awards Event Management
Outline of how the company/individual would approach the Sikuvile Journalism Award Gala dinner event.
Event concept/theme including entertainment and decorations,
proposed venues and menus,
detailed budget); and or
Present a marketing strategy to promote and publicise the awards.
Prospective companies and individuals should submit a document that contains the following:
Name of company/individual and contact details including company registration and ID numbers of representatives
Profile and references
Bidders can apply with proposals that detail all proposed processes/systems for applications to facilitate a fair and transparent adjudication, the format envisaged for the awards event, and a timeframe for producing a world-class awards event, amid Covid-19 restrictions, as well as total cost with budget heads indicated.
Shortlisted bidders will be asked to present to the SANEF management team.
Send your proposal in writing to Dzudzie Netshisaulu by email: [email protected]
DEADLINE: Midnight, Monday 07 February 2022
Note to Editors: The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is a non-profit organisation whose members are editors, senior journalists, and journalism trainers from all areas of the South African media. We are committed to championing South Africa’s hard-won freedom of expression and promoting quality, ethics, and diversity in the South African media. We promote excellence in journalism through fighting for media freedom, writing policy submissions, research and education and training programmes. SANEF is not a union.
REPORTING THE COURTS WEBINAR SERIES SANEF in partnership with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism is hosting a series of webinars to accompany the relaunch of the Reporting the Courts manual.
The next instalment in the Reporting the Courts webinar series will take place on 27 January.
This session will include insights from:
Mthunzi Mhaga – Special advisor and spokesperson to the NPA
Yvonne van Niekerk – Director of court administration at the Office of the Chief Justice
Karyn Maughan – Legal journalist at Media24
Chrispin Phiri – Ministry of Justice spokesman
The session will be facilitated by Dianne Hawker and Dr Candice Bailey.
SANEF in partnership with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism will be hosting a series of webinars to accompany the relaunch of the Reporting the Courts manual.
Webinar 1 : UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND THE RULE OF LAW IN SOUTH AFRICA
The South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) is celebrating 25 years of championing media freedom and will hold a Fundraising Dinner to mark this milestone on Friday 15 October 2021.
SANEF was born when two influential organisations united to build a formidable institution, instrumental in the protection of media and public’s right to know about the affairs of their country.
Imtiaz Sooliman, founder of disaster relief organisation, Gift of the Givers, will deliver the keynote address, speaking on: “The role and importance of independent journalism and active citizenry in a weak state.” Sooliman was this week deservedly crowned the Social Justice Champion of 2021.
SANEF will also use the event to commemorate 44 years since the tragic events of 19 October 1977, when scores of journalists and black consciousness leaders were detained and banned by the apartheid regime in a desperate attempt to stop them from exposing atrocities by an oppressive regime against the people of this country. October 19 is a constant reminder that our freedom was hard won, and many sacrificed their lives for a democratic South Africa.
Sbu Ngalwa, chairperson of SANEF, said: “Today, the work of fearless people like Percy Qoboza, Don Mattera, Mathatha Tsedu, Joe Tlholoe and Aggrey Klaaste, to name a few, continues to inspire us that there is more to do as we seek to safeguard hard earned freedoms like freedom of expression. We know of current challenges faced by journalists, not only locally, but the world over. We are driven to continue doing and acceding to the organisation’s founding principles.”
The fundraising dinner will also see the launch of a commemorative booklet, marking SANEF’s 25th – birthday – documenting the struggles, victories, and challenges ahead for defenders of our freedom.
As SANEF we are thankful to all those that continue to support the work SANEF does, anchored in Article 16 of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights that guarantees press freedom. We urge South Africans to continue being the first line of defence for our journalists and their work and underscoring that a free media is a critical tenet of a healthy democracy.
The birth of SANEF was as a result of a merger of two previously polarised groups – the Black Editors’ Forum (BEF) and the Conference of Editors (CoE). The BEF was motivated by strong black consciousness beliefs while the CoE was largely made up of white, male, middle-class English, and Afrikaans newspaper editors.
They did, however, share common ideals which included a free press and a commitment to ethical journalism and the development of journalists, amongst other principles.
After a rocky start with diametrically opposed views, there was a willingness in the BEF and COF ranks to make things work, and soon enough an agreement in principle was hammered out. This was based on the consensus shared by all editors that, no matter their background, that it was essential to form a single organisation. What followed was a celebratory founding event held in October 1996 at the Breakwater Lodge in Cape Town.
SANEF today is active in not only defending our hard-won press freedoms, but we also have extensive programmes to train journalists and promote high ethical standards in newsrooms.
As the country battles to recover from a devastating pandemic and rebuild the economy, SANEF has also focused on the sustainability of the industry.
The project began with raising funds to support journalists who lost their jobs because of lockdown regulations to help curb the spread of Covid-19. The Media Relief Fund supported by corporate South Africa and ordinary people was able to support close to 500 media workers.
Note to Editors: The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is a non-profit organisation whose members are editors, senior journalists, and journalism trainers from all areas of the South African media. We are committed to championing South Africa’s hard-won freedom of expression and promoting quality, ethics, and diversity in the South African media. We promote excellence in journalism through fighting for media freedom, writing policy submissions, research and education and training programmes. SANEF is not a union.
Thank you for attending the SANEF: Role of media during elections webinar.
Please find the dates to our next webinars below as well as resources and the recording links to our webinar held on Tuesday.
The training is part of SANEF’s ongoing capacity building and investment in democracy and governance reporting skills, to ensure that journalists provide the public with fair, balanced and accurate information to rely on when they prepare for voting day.
Webinar: Disinformation during the elections
– The shortcomings of the term ‘fake news’, and alternative terminology to be used;
– The different regional and regulatory responses to address disinformation, and the measures being implemented in South Africa to address disinformation online during the elections and during the COVID-19 pandemic;
– The standard of care required by the media and the importance of media credibility;
– Guidelines for countering disinformation: the important role of the media in publishing counter-narratives, fact‑checking and verification, and practical guidance for journalists. Register here
21 September 2021 | 10AM – 11.45PM
Webinar: Safety of journalists on and off line
– The types of threats, harassment, and attacks faced by the media — including gender-specific — and the obligations on the state and media organisations.
– The importance of the protection of sources, as recognised under our domestic case law.
– Practical guidance for journalists to protect themselves online, including on social media, and in reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
– Practical guidance for journalists on where they can seek assistance and recourse in the event of threats, harassment or attacks. Register here
Winners of the 23rd Nat Nakasa Journalism Awards, sponsored by SANLAM, were announced at a gala dinner at The Trevor Huddleston Memorial Centre in Sophiatown on August 14. The flagship event of the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) awards journalists who have shown courage and tenacity in the face of enormous challenges and displayed a commitment to serving the people of SA with integrity, resisted censorship, and striven for truth and accuracy in their reporting.
The winner of the Nat Nakasa Award for 2021 is Styli Charalambous, the CEO and co-founder of Daily Maverick. Since its inception the publication has become one of the leading online and a printed publication in SA, in part because of the commitment and passion of the former chartered accountant. Styli says he is now “fully reformed and passionate about the media business”.
This year, the Nat Nakasa Award Community Media was made to Nathan Geffen and Raymond Joseph for their work in the community news agency GroundUp. Since 2018, this small community news agency has persisted with a series of investigations into the NLC that have uncovered corruption, maladministration, and nepotism. The news agency’s work in general — and its reporting on the lotteries scandal in particular— provides a sterling example of good community journalism in action. Editor Geffen started GroundUp ten years ago, as a donor-funded community news agency focusing on social justice issues.
The coveted Stephen Wrottesley Award went to Mahlatse Mahlase,chairperson of SANEF 2016 – 2020 and current secretary-general. The award was presented “for her passion, professionalism and commitment to SANEF and her dedication to media freedom and ethics.” Mahlase embodies what SANEF stands for: an unwavering passion for media freedom and a deep commitment to make South Africa a better and more equal place for its citizens, through journalism. Nominated by her peers, Mahlase steered SANEF to financial and organisational stability and has led SANEF in its principled campaign against prevailing hate speech and online abuse against journalists. She championed SANEF’s activism to push back against the abuse of particularly women journalists by politicians and online trolls.
In addition, SANEF recognises five community radio stations this year who have shown determination and bravery in serving their communities: Alex FM; Westside FM 98.9 MHz; Mams Radio; Intokozo FM and Kasie FM 97.1. The prizes were awarded from the SANEF Media Relief Fund. Click here for more info.
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SANEF in partnership with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism is hosting a series of webinars to accompany the relaunch of the Reporting the Courts manual.
