Framing the Cape Town World Cup stadium in the media: The politics of identity and sports in South Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wallace Chuma
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The Media

scholarly journals Media and Information Literacy in South Africa: Goals and Tools

Comunicar ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (39) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Saleh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
The Media ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University ◽  
Teachers Training

The South African government has emphasized the need to expand the role of media education to promote equal access, with a level of quality and relevance that will empower disadvantaged groups. However, it is a challenging, time-consuming process, as well as requiring considerable and consistent expenditure and partnerships between many donor agencies. There is little research on the causes behind unequal access to technology, or comparative studies of the barriers that impede the diffusion and adoption of media and information literacy in South Africa. It is thus not surprising that the media and information literacy component is still missing from the agenda that lists Africa’s myriad problems, as well as the absence of qualified teachers, training for the trainers and the presence of IT literacy in the curricula, all of which are essential elements for any future development. The UNESCO model of curricula could help close the digital divide and promote social inclusion. As a contribution to that goal, this study investigates some of the pertinent issues related to media and information literacy via a sample of students at the University of Cape Town. This research offers some practical solutions on how to help raise the levels of media and information literacy among the disadvantaged, in the case in South Africa. El gobierno de Sudáfrica ha realizado recientemente un enorme esfuerzo en la expansión del papel de la educación en medios, con el objeto de ofrecer un acceso equitativo y de calidad a toda la población, especialmente hacia los grupos desfavorecidos. Sin embargo, este proceso requiere tiempo y recursos ingentes y constantes, además de la necesaria colaboración de otras instituciones. Actualmente, existe en Sudáfrica escasa investigación sobre las causas de las desigualdades de acceso a la tecnología o los obstáculos que existen para la difusión y puesta en marcha de la alfabetización mediática en Sudáfrica. No es sorprendente, por ello, que entre los múltiples problemas que existen hoy en África todavía la alfabetización mediática e informacional no sea una prioridad. Siguen existiendo muchos maestros con escasos conocimientos en esta materia, la capacitación de formadores es muy pobre y su incorporación en programas de alfabetización muy anecdótica. El Currículum UNESCO MIL de Alfabetización Mediática es un reto para ayudar a superar esta brecha digital y promover la inclusión social. Con este objetivo, este estudio analiza algunas cuestiones relacionadas con la alfabetización mediática a partir de una muestra de estudiantes de la Universidad de Cape Town, proponiendo algunas soluciones prácticas sobre cómo ayudar a mejorar los niveles de alfabetización mediática e informacional en las sociedades menos favorecidas, como es el caso de Sudáfrica.

Sex Trafficking and Prostitution in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 653 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandré Gould
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines the complex arrangements within which women working in prostitution in South Africa find themselves, and documents their resilience in a hazardous work environment. Findings are drawn from a survey and in-depth interviews with sex workers in Cape Town that investigated the nature and extent of human trafficking in the sex industry, and from a separate survey of sex workers during the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. The findings provide the basis for a critique of Western rescue missions and the larger antitrafficking movement.

An Ordinary Country

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-690
Author(s):  
Dilip Menon
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Imagination

South Africans see themselves as a nation that loves sport, but with the World Cup in football imminent, there appears to be a sense of exhaustion both in the media and among the population. One important reason is that football does not dominate the public imagination of sport, as cricket and rugby do. The game is played and loved in the black townships, the fortunes of African football-playing nations are followed devotedly, and players such as Didier Drogba have a larger-than-life standing in the country. But football has not become a metaphor for the nation, as rugby and cricket have become. Whether this reflects a racial affiliation alone is hard to get at, because the local team, Bafana (which could be genially translated as “the boys”), are eighty-eighth in the FIFA rankings, without a ghost of a chance of winning the Cup, while at rugby and cricket, South Africa are world beaters.

Impact of the 2010 FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) World Cup on Pediatric Injury and Mortality in Cape Town, South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Zroback ◽  
David Levin ◽  
Cedric Manlhiot ◽  
Angus Alexander ◽  
AB (Sebastian) van As ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Pediatric Injury

Shooting the East/Veils and Masks: Uncovering Orientalism in South African Media

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-384
Author(s):  
GABEBA BADEROON
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The South ◽  
The Media ◽  
African Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
Newspaper Articles

ABSTRACT In this essay the author analyzes a series of South African newspaper articles on a Cape Town-based group called Pagad (People against Gangsterism and Drugs). The essay draws upon a larger study of the images of Islam in the South African media and reveals that both the Pagad and the media make use of regressive discourses about Islam. The author finds traces in the media of what Edward Said has referred to as Orientalism. Through the Pagad stories, Muslims in South Africa are treated by the media with an extremely constricted vocabulary which gives little of the suppleness needed to distinguish between Muslims, and the violence enacted in the name of Islam. The answer to the problem of stereotypical and racist representations in the media lies for Baderoon in people reading critically, insisting on complexity, claiming the right to ethical journalistic practices, establishing media with varied ownership, providing alternative visions, and inserting repressed histories into the media.

scholarly journals Approaches to the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
A. I. Tayob
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Guest Speaker ◽  
State University ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The Media ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University ◽  
Personal Law

This conference was convened by J. H. Dreyer of the Department ofSemitic Studies at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, andthe Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town,South Africa. It was preceded by a banquet, during which the Islamic Studiesprogram of the Department of Religious Studies was introduced to the peopleof Cape Town. Approximately 250 invited guests attended the conference,which was well received by local Muslims and set the parameters for ahealthy relationship between the department and the Muslim community.The conference was attended by a fluctuating audience of eighty to 150individuals from the University of Cape Town and various Muslim communities.This provided an ideal opportunity for the emergence of a varietyof lively and critical ideas. Issues affecting Muslims living in South Africaalso generated a lot of discussion.The keynote guest speaker was Richard Martin, Arizona State University,Tucson, Arizona. The rest of the papers were presented by scholars fromSouth African universities who have been involved in the study of Islam andArabic. The following broad areas were covered: early Islamic history;Qur'anic hermeneutics in traditional and modem scholarship; revivalism;Islam in South Africa; and Muslim personal law in South Africa.The first session dealt with early Islam and featured two presentations.The first, Martin's paper on "Public Theology in Medieval Islam: The Roleof Kalam in Conflict Definition and Resolution," set the pace with aninteresting and innovative approach to the study of early theological disputes.In addition, he presented kalam disputes to illustrate how modem discussionsand debates on fundamentalism have produced a kind of public theologyinvolving both the media and academia in North America. He was followedby Abdul Kader I. Tayob, University of Cape Town, who dealt with themeaning and significance of the masjid as a sacred space as reflected in theQur'an and si'rah literature of the thirteenth hijri century.Two papers on Qur'anic hermeneutics made up the second session. A. K. ...

scholarly journals Of Nigerians, albinos, satanists and anecdotes: A critical review of the HSRC report on human trafficking

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandré Gould ◽  
Marlise Richter ◽  
Ingrid Palmery
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The Media ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Missed Opportunity

The deluge of news articles about human trafficking in South Africa, and the media preoccupation with trafficking in the run-up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, could lead an observer to believe that South Africa is a 'hotbed' of human trafficking. Yet, there are no baseline data about the extent or nature of the problem. The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) released a research report in March this year that purports to provide 'the first comprehensive assessment of human trafficking in South Africa.' The report is beset with methodological problems and assumptions. It is based on very little original research. The authors of this review argue that it represents a missed opportunity to provide much needed information about human trafficking in South Africa and fuels sensationalism about human trafficking.

scholarly journals Fifa-isation: Security, brand protection and media management at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Eisenhauer ◽  
Daryl Adair ◽  
Tracy Taylor
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Media Management ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Brand Protection ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Spatial Management ◽  
The Media

This paper presents a case-study of spatial brand protection and media management and security strategies at the 2010 Football World Cup (FWC) in South Africa (RSA). This focus stems from the realisation that commercially designated event spaces are very important environments for the interests of FWC sponsors, and that the media has a pivotal role in conveying messages about desirable conduct in such environments. In these respects, stakeholder organisations are concerned about safeguarding core event spaces, and with promoting positive messages about the FWC via the media. The paper therefore investigates the interests of key stakeholders at the 2010 FWC: the event owner Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the FWC sponsors and the host city (Cape Town). It is concerned with identifying various surveillance strategies to manage public spaces at the FWC, albeit with a particular emphasis on protecting the interests of sponsors and their brand integrity. It is also concerned with strategies to manage the media at the FWC, with a particular emphasis on how FIFA stymies dissent and forces compliance among reporters and news outlets that undermine critical surveillance into these practices of spatial management. Taken together, these hyper-protectionist approaches demonstrate what we have described as the FIFA-isation of the FWC, where commercial risk is outsourced to the event host, while the commercial benefits flow back to the event owner. Concomitantly, FIFA makes enormous surveillance demands on the event hosts and those residing in the country and city where it is to be held, and upon the media that broadcast and report on the world’s biggest sport mega events.

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