How to put together a team of citizen journalists

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...

Dobsonville Human Rights Advice Centre (DHRAC) Responding to the Higher Rate of Gender Based Violence in Braamfischerville, Soweto, Gauteng Province.

Feb 7, 2019 | blog

The advice office funded by the Act Alliance (Act Ubumbano), supported by the Dobsonville Central Police Station and Norwegian Church Aid facilitated four dialogues in 25 November, 05,08 & 14 December 2018 in commemoration of the 16 days of activism. The outcomes...

Starting just outside Pietermaritzburg

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...

Citizen Justice Network is helping to monitor the violence in KZN around the elections

Jan 22, 2019 | blog

Citizen Justice Network wins the Commemorative Open Society Scholarship

Dec 13, 2018 | blog

25th Commemorative Open Society Scholarship Recipients In 1979 George Soros, Chairperson and Founder of the Open Society Foundations, provided scholarships to black South African students to study at the University of Cape Town during apartheid. To date, the Open...

CJN seeks to appoint a Managing Editor, to be based in Johannesburg

Nov 22, 2018 | blog

The Citizen Justice Network (CJN) is an award-winning media innovation that trains community paralegals to be radio journalists, the community paralegals are established, trusted activists and fighters for social change in their communities. We empower them with...

How to put together a team of citizen journalists

Dobsonville Human Rights Advice Centre (DHRAC) Responding to the Higher Rate of Gender Based Violence in Braamfischerville, Soweto, Gauteng Province.

Starting just outside Pietermaritzburg

Citizen Justice Network is helping to monitor the violence in KZN around the elections

Citizen Justice Network wins the Commemorative Open Society Scholarship

CJN seeks to appoint a Managing Editor, to be based in Johannesburg

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