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enoir student journalists from the Tshwane University of Technolgy went on an academic excursion for a week in Cape Town from September 9. The excursion is an annual activity the forms part of the second year journalism syllabus for a National Diploma in journalism. The journalism department from the Tshwane University of Technology paid for the trip, the venue where the students were staying and also gave them pocket money of about R500. An assignment is expected from this excursion. The assignment will be marked by three lecturer for their different modules namely politics, English for journalists, and basic editing and design for print media. The contents of the assignment will be mainly on what happened in Cape Town. On their arrival in Cape Town, students signed in for their rooms at Amalfi Executive Suites in Sea Point.
They later enjoyed the nightlife of Cape Town at the renowned Long Street which stretches from end to end with clubs that accommodates all people from different walks of life. Besides the Cape Town nightlife, the students went to Robben Island where they received a lecture during a tour on South African history and about the political prisoners who were deterred on the island. A day after the Robben Island tour, the students were taken to a presentation hosted and prepared by the Media 24 personnel. During the presentations, students were interested on topics on online journalism, gap in today’s magazine market, Apps and the future of journalism and community newspapers. Students spent two days in parliament where they witnessed the country’s president answering questions posed by the members of the national council. The students left Cape Town on Thursday after a long and exciting nightlife adventure at the Long Street.
The name of the venue where the Tshwane University of Technology senior student journalists were booked at. The Amalfi executive suites is in Sea Point, Cape Town. It is still under minor construction for about 6 month now.
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Democratic Alliance youngest member in parliament NKOSINATHI MKHUNJULWA
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he parliament members met on September 14 to consider reports from different departmental members. A day before (September 13) this meeting, the country’s president Mr Jacob Gedlheyihlekisa Zuma, answered a number of questions from different members of the South African parliament and representatives ffrom different political parties. A lot of the opposition members were not happy with some of the answers that the president was giving. Amongst the many reports that were presented to the national assembly, were from the committee on Public Accounts.
The chief whip of the rulling party adopted the following reports; the third report of the Auditor General on annual report and financial statements of Energy Sector Education Training Authority for 2009/10 financial year. The report of the Auditor General on Annual report and financial statements of Department of Defence and Military Veteran for 2009/10 financial year. Members of parliament then said their farewell tributes to the Democratic Alliance’s Micheal Ellis who was serving his last day in parliament on September 14. Members from the opposition and the riluing party read their speeches saying good bye to him. Micheal sat on his chair, smiled and cried.
uring a press conference the Tshwane University of Technology student journalists discovered that the Democratic Alliance has the youngest Member of Parliament on September 14 in Cape Town. The students were stunned to see a young white South African dressed in a black suit is an MP for the opposition party, DA. Gareth Morgan, the DA’s youngest MP, said that the Democratic Alliance puts emphasis on having young members in parliament and that he is one of the privileged ones. He also mentioned that the Democratic Alliance has 67 Members of Parliament. Morgan went on to explain the mandate of the DA to the students. He noted that the Democratic Alliance is dedicated in giving people access to proper health care, adequate housing, and efficient access to basic service delivery at all times. He mentioned that they, as the Democratic Alliance, has strong alliance with the Congress of the People and that they are working on building a strong coalition with them. Morgan said COPE is the potential political party that they see themselves going into coalition with. Despite all that have been said about the Democratic Alliance, Morgan said that the party is still the most diverse political party in the South African political sphere. Morgan has the qualities of his leader Helen Zille and shows enthusiasm in the work that he does.
The Tshwane University of Technology’s second year journalism students received presentations from Media 24 representatives from different departments on September 12 at the Access Park hotel in Cape Town. Body The presentations were from different personnel from the Media 24. The students were welcomed by Lutfia Vayej who is the head of the Media 24 Corporate Communication. The next presentation after the welcoming was the editor of Media 24.com, Jannie Momberg. Momberg told the students that everyone who competiting for the time of internet users was their competition. After talking about their Zulu news website which started about six months ago, Momberg talked about the digital age and social networks, and the importance thereof.
Social media strategist, Sebastian Stent, from Media 24’s Touch Lab gives a presentation to the 2nd year journalism students from the Tshwane Universtity of Technology.
Morgan is the Democratic Alliance’s shadow minister of water and environment affairs. He joined the Democratic Party in 1995 and was employed as a party’s activist while studying. In 1999 morgan was emplyed as the kwa-Zulu Natal Democratic Alliance media officer. Morgan became the Democratice Alliance’s vice chairperson of Kwa-Zulu Natal since 2006 to 2009.
DA sees COPE as a potential party for a coalition Gareth Morgan (DA)
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The Democratic Alliance youngest parliament member, Gareth Morgan, answers questions by the Tshwane University of Technology journalism student during a press conference in parliament.
Answering the question where news websites are going from where we are now, Momberg mentioned that the quality of websites should be attractive. “Websites should be functional and allow interaccess with social networks,” Momberg said. Sebastian Stent who is the social media strategist, talked about Apps and the future of journalism. He reinforced that journalism should be used to shine the light in our communities; find answers to hard questions and should strive to tell people about things they do not know of. Sebastian said that our country’s democracy exists because of the South African media and that without the media any country would be at halt and its citizens would be in the dark. He encouraged a the students to use social networks and apps for the betterment of producing news contents for the nation. The national business manager for community newspapers, Evan Simth, talked about community newspapers and their ways forward to become much better and bigger.
Student journalist robbed of his valuables NKOSINATHI MKHUNJULWA A second year student journalist from the Tshwane University of Technology was allegedly robbed of his valuable belongings on Saturday night in Sea Point, Cape Town. It was alleged that the student was from a club in Long Street which hosts the best clubs in Cape Town. The student, whose name would not be mentioned here, said he had just put his Blackberry in the pocket of his pants when a stranger offered him to accompany him into a food store. The student only realised that his Blackberry, digital camera and Mp3 player were missing about 20 minutes after the stranger left. The student opened a case at the local police station and recieved a case no. The police said they were busy with the investigations. The police advises that when you are walking around Cape Town, enjoying the scenery or thenightlife, all people should walk in groups of about 5 people to avoid been robbed. They said walking in grioups discourages thieves from carrying on their deeds.
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shores. This island is where the former first black South African president was kept by the apartheid regime. Mandela was impisoned here for eighteen years of his twentyseven year imprisonment. The island is composed of Precambrian metamorphic rocks belonging to the Malmesbury Group.
obben Island is a renowned island just 12 kilometers away from the Cape Town
It is of particular note as it was here that past President of South Africa and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela and past South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, alongside many other political prisoners, spent decades imprisoned during the apartheid era. Among those political prisoners was current South African President Jacob Zuma who was imprisoned there for ten years. This island still hold South Africa’s history.
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BACKGROUND: The entrance to the Robben Island’s harbour.
LEFT: The house where Robert Sobukwe was kept in Robben Island. Sobukwe was a former African National Congress member but later for his own political party the Pan-African Congress.
ABOVE: The Robben Island school that has 12 learners
RIGHT: Rock pile started by Nelson Mandela and added to by former prisoners, one rock each, at reunion.
LEFT: This is the Lime Stone Quarry. Prisoners were promised to work for about 6 months but they ended up working for 13 years.
LEFT: All the letters to and from the prisoners were censored. This was to monitor communications between prisoners and the sender. Any letter found to been improper, the officials would destroy the letter.
TOP: The entrance to the former Maximum security prison in Robbon Island where Nelson Mandela nd the other political prisoners were kept during the apartheid era.
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LEFT: The entrence to the Robben Island’s musem.
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