Thomson Foundation played a vital role in helping South African Broadcasting Corporation meet the needs of a swiftly-developing democracy
Thomson Foundation's work with SABC continues. Recent support has included a series of training programmes designed to develop newsgathering skills
Thomson Foundation's work with South African national broadcaster SABC coincided with Nelson Mandela’s election as president. He famously said, “South Africa should put freedom of its press and media at the top of its priorities” and so the foundation was invited into SABC to help contribute to the changes needed to put Mandela’s philosophy into practice. The foundation restructured news and current affairs and trained more than 150 journalists during an intensive three-month period.
South Africa
South African Broadcasting Corporation
Three months
1994
Media reform; South Africa;
In the early 90s, when there were so many political changes in South Africa, we needed to convert from a state broadcaster to a national public broadcaster. The Thomson Foundation were the first people we reached for”
