NEWSPAPERS are to be used increasingly in South African classrooms to assist children to read critically and form their own judgments. The Newspaper Press Union (NPU) plans to co-operate with national educational planners to help ”school” a new generation of ”democratically minded South Africans”.
NPU members are working in correlation with the Print Media In Education initiative to show teachers how to use newspapers in the classroom.
MOELETSI MBEKI’S desire for a limit on foreign control of the media, especially of the printed press, seemed to gel with some observers and commentators at the debate held within the parliamentary committee on communications this week.
But Independent group editorial director and deputy chief executive Ivan Fallon defended the Irish-owned stable’s monopoly in the industry. He pointed out how successful the group was on the affirmative action front with its ”non-white” appointments.