Mar 15, 2019 | blog, elections
The Elections Project has been touring Gauteng and The Free State. We have been visiting stations and meeting the accomplished community reporters who are producing the on-the-ground journalism that defines what we do. We stopped at The Rock FM in Welkom in the Free...
Mar 3, 2019 | blog, elections
We are proud and excited to introduce you to our team of citizen reporters (based in community radio stations) from KZN that will be working on our election based stories for their stations. We will be helping them with the reporting, editing and producing of these...
Feb 12, 2019 | elections, News
There is a term that I have been guilty of using. I even at one stage adopted it with glee. But it should really be banned from the community and citizen journalism space. And that term is “virtual newsroom”. It sounds magical and easy: an idea that this team of...
Jan 22, 2019 | elections, News
When I first went down to KZN to visit Siya Gidi he took me to a house just outside Pietermaritzburg. We met a lady called Andile* and she explained how as a child she had hidden in a house similar to the one we were in, squat, simple and part of a suburb, while her...
