- Title
- Listening to the ‘Born Frees’: politics and disillusionment in South Africa
- Creator
- Malila, Vanessa, Garman, Anthea
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158884
- Identifier
- vital:40237
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2015.1084587
- Description
- In 2014 South Africa celebrated 20 years of democracy, and for many of the ‘Born Frees’ – those who came of age politically after 1996 – this was their first opportunity to vote in national elections. With democracy came the promise for South Africa's marginalised majority of voice and agency, but also the implicit promise that their democratically elected government would listen to them. In addition, the South African media have long championed their role as a voice for the voiceless. This article presents work done with youngsters from South Africa's poorest province, the Eastern Cape, in an effort to listen to their experience of politics and to understand their use of the media – especially whether it enables them to speak out and be heard in the public sphere.
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Journalism Studies, Malila, V. and Garman, A., 2016. Listening to the ‘Born Frees’: politics and disillusionment in South Africa. African Journalism Studies, 37(1), pp.64-80, African Journalism Studies volume 37 number 1 64 80 March 2016 2374-3689
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