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PanSALB calls for nominations for Multilingualism Awards

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The Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) hereby invites members of the public to nominate individuals or organizations with proven track records in the promotion, preservation, and protection of multilingualism to be recognized for their contributions for the furtherance of multilingualism vehicle to social cohesion and nation-building.  

The 2023 Multilingualism Awards are bestowed by the Board on individuals/organizations who have excelled in the promotion, protection, and preservation of all official languages including Khoi and San Languages.

Nominated individuals or organizations should possess special knowledge, experience, and details of the contributions to the promotion, preservation, and protection of multilingualism in the country. Anyone wishing to nominate an individual or organization for possible recognition to the contributions made, they should submit the following:

  • A completed nomination form containing full names and all contact details of the nominee with reasons for the nomination and explaining suitability for the recognition.
  • The form should be signed by the nominee in which he or she agrees to the nomination.
  • Background and details of the contributions to the promotions, preservations, protection, and / or participation in multilingualism

Winners will be announced at an official ceremony scheduled to take place on 17 November 2023 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Nominees will be awarded under the following categories: Education, Language and Literature, Language Activism, Media, Youth, Government (Public Sector), Technology, Business, Music, Translation and Interpretation and the Chairperson’s lifetime achievement awards.

Nomination forms are available here, and will be closing on Friday, 08 September 2023.

MDDA opens the call for grant funding applications 2023/24

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Closing date is on 17 July 2023, apply online or submit physically

The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) will officially open the 2023/24 Call for Grant Funding Applications for a six-week period commencing from 05 June 2023.

Community broadcast media projects, including radio, TV, and community print publications, as well as small commercial print are invited to apply.

This year, the MDDA is celebrating twenty years of fulfilling its mandate by providing grant funding and other support, with the aim to encourage media ownership, access and control to media particularly by historically disadvantaged communities and diminished Indigenous language and cultural groups.

The agency will be introducing a few changes to this call for applications for both community print and community broadcast applications.

Grant Funding remains one of the core functions of the MDDA and is also one of the central factors towards ensuring successful empowerment, sustainability, and transformation of the community media sector. The application process will be conducted through compliant, cost-effective, and transparent selection procedures, in-line with corporate governance principles and compliance with the Agency’s legislative framework.

Community print applications: Due to the minimal budget for community print, the call to community projects will take a targeted approach and invite applications from four provinces.

“The MDDA will rotate the provinces every year after this call. All applications will be received on the MDDA’s online application system found on the MDDA website. The call is targeting organizations owned or focusing on youth, women and persons with disabilities related content. This year, the call is not accepting digital media applications under the print portfolio as it will be targeting communities which rely on hardcopy publications and publish in indigenous languages to assist further the mandate of media development and diversity in rural communities,” the agency stated.

Community Broadcast applications will still target all nine provinces.

How to submit your application

Applications will only be accepted via the following channels: emailed or physically delivered to the MDDA offices in Auckland Park (Gate 13, 26 Canary Road, Auckland Park, SABC GSM Building.)

The qualifying criteria is obtainable on the MDDA website, www.mdda.org.za.

For more information on the grant applications call, contact Mzu Kashe on the following e-mail: margaret@mdda.org.za / 082 785 6071.

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Declaration of Allegiance to the Black Media Owners Association

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We, the founding members, hereby declare our allegiance to the Black Media Owners Association and its objective of raising the dignity of black people through all media platforms and channels in South Africa and beyond.

We commit to always putting the interests of our black people first in all our media companies and to growing with them.

We recognize that we are competing directly with the big five media establishments that have benefited from injustices of the past and are still doing so through market monopolies in all media spectra.

We declare that enough is enough, and we now wage a war with the establishments that be in this country, including the State and other institutions that support the narrative.

We are the Black Media Owners Association, and we are committed to using our collective voice and resources to challenge the status quo and create a more just and equitable society.

We pledge to work together towards achieving our shared goals and to support each other in our endeavors.