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SADC
Media Awards: Call for nominations for the National Adjudicating
Committee
Closing
date: 6 June 2003
Establishment
of National Adjudicating Committee for the SADC Media Awards in
South Africa
The SADC Council
of Ministers in 1996 approved a recommendation by the SADC Sector
on Culture Information and Sport, to establish SADC Media Awards
to honour and encourage excellent journalistic work in the region.
Written nominations
are invited for persons to be appointed on the SADC Media Awards
National Adjudicating Committee (NAC). The NAC will be responsible
for screening South African entries for the Awards as well as making
recommendations to the Regional (SADC) Adjudicating Committee. The
NAC will be comprised of persons who:
- will promote
human rights and press freedom
- are committed
to fairness, freedom of expression, openness and accountability
- when viewed
collectively - possess suitable qualifications, expertise and
experience in the fields such as community media, photo-journalism,
print journalism, television journalism, radio journalism.
Nominations
must contain:
- full name
and address of the person/organisation making the nomination
- a signed
acceptance of the nomination by the nominee
- a curriculum
vitae providing at least the following information: Full name,
ID number and gender, contact address, telephone and fax numbers,
previous experience and organisations concerned, and academic
qualifications.
Nominations
must reach the CEO's office not later than 6 June 2003.
Mail to:
Government Communications and Information System, Private Bag X745,
Pretoria, 0001
Deliver to:
Government Communications and Information System, 356 Vermeulen
Street (cor Prinsloo and Vermeulen Streets), Midtown Building, Pretoria
For more information,
phone Mxolisi Notshulwana (012) 314 2123 or Nkele Sebasa at (012)
314 2179, between 08:30 and 16:00 from Monday to Friday.
Rules of
the competition
- SADC Media
Awards will be held annually.
- The entries
should have been published/broadcast between January and December
of the preceding year by a recognized/registered media organization.
- The themes
of the entries to be submitted for the competition must be related
to SADC activities in the region.
- Any journalist
from SADC Members States can enter the competition as long as
he/she performs his/her journalistic activity in the region.
- All works
entering the competition should be in one of the SADC languages,
i.e. English, Portuguese and French.
- SADC Media
Awards will comprise the following categories:
- Press:
comprising features/articles published in newspapers and newsletters;
- Radio
journalism: comprising broadcast material;
- Television
journalism: comprising televised material
- Photojournalism:
comprising published pictures in newspapers, magazines, with
or without written texts.
Criteria
for SADC Media Awards NAC nominations
Constitution
and appointment of NAC members
- SADC Media
Awards Task Team will be responsible for advertising as well as
the screening and evaluation of the nominees
- Nominations
will be done in a public, open and transparent manner
- The NAC
will consist of nine members who will be appointed as follows:
- Four
from Print journalism (including online), Photojournalism,
Television and Radio journalism.
- One from
Community media.
- One from
academia.
- One from
Journalist unions.
- Two from
human rights and civil organisations dealing with issues of
freedom of the press
- Persons
appointed to the NAC must be persons who are:
- Committed
to fairness, freedom of expression, openness and accountability
- When
viewed collectively - the nominees should possess suitable
qualifications, expertise and experience in the fields such
as community media, photo-journalism, print journalism, television
journalism, radio journalism, human rights and press freedom.
Briefing
document on the SADC Media Awards and the establishment of the National
Adjudication Committee in South Africa, 7 November 2002
Purpose
The objective
of the briefing is two-fold: one to provide some background on the
SADC Media Awards, and two: to provide a basis for discussion on
how we should establish the National Adjudication Committee (NAC)
in South Africa. The input and involvement of your institutions
in the establishment of the NAC is not only critical in so far as
the development and promotion of free expression and media freedom
in the region but also how South Africa can continue to reflect
upon its changing media landscape to provide for meaningful, open,
deliberative and constructive interventions in the region.
Background
The meeting
of the Council of Ministers held in Maseru, Lesotho, on 21 - 22
August 1996, approved the recommendation by the SADC Sector on Culture,
Information and Sport that the SADC Media Awards be established
to honour excellent journalistic work in the following areas:
- print journalism
- photo journalism
- television
journalism
- radio journalism.
The principle
objective of the SADC Sector on Culture, Information and Sport in
establishing the SADC Media Awards is to encourage and promote the
following values in the region:
- freedom of
expression
- media freedom
- freedom of
thought
- tolerance
of divergent views and opinions
- participatory
and deliberative democracy
- media development
- democracy,
accountability and transparency
- support for
the development integration programmes of the SADC.
The criteria
and the rules for administering the SADC Media Awards assert that:
- the Awards
be held annually
- entries should
have been published in a year preceding that of the conferring
of the Awards
- themes and
activities of the entries should relate to SADC activities in
the region
- entries should
be in the SADC languages, i.e. English, Portuguese and French
- the National
Adjudication Committee will screen and judge entries in the four
categories
- the Regional
Adjudication Committee will select the best regional works
- the National
Adjudication Committee will be comprised of person from civil
society, academic community, intellectual community, and media
- the Regional
Adjudication Committee will be comprised of chair-persons of the
National Adjudication Committees from all SADC member states.
South Africa's
role
The GCIS has
been tasked with the launching of the National Adjudication Committee
of the SADC Media Awards. The government's position in the process
is to facilitate the adjudication and nomination of the Awards as
well as provide feedback to the Council of Ministers on the decision
of the Regional Adjudication Committee.
On a broader
political level, the principle position of the South African is
to play a significant and meaningful role in the region to encourage
as well as promote the democratic values that are enshrined in our
Constitution, in the SADC Constitution as well as in the Constitutive
Act of the Africa Union (AU).
Conclusion
One of the major
challenges facing the SADC since its transformation from a co-ordination
Conference to a Development Community has the establishment of an
appropriate, vibrant and effective institutional framework and structures
for executing its new mandate. It has become imperative for the
organisation to review its objectives as well as its relation with
other stakeholders such as the media. Based on the principles of
SADC's Common Agenda the following is included to commence our discussion
on the establishment of the South African NAC:
- the promotion
and sustainable and equitable growth and socieconomic development
that will ensure poverty alleviation with ultimate objective of
eradication
- promotion
of common political values, systems and other shared values which
are transmitted through institutions which are democratic, legitimate
and effective; and
- the consolidation
and maintenance of democracy, peace and security.
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