Director's Report

The Centre was fortunate in obtaining the services of numerous visiting scholars who contributed to teaching, research and publication. It was also invited to partner a number of international research projects. Details are provided below.

While the Centre's current prime emphasis remains on media, our intention is to strengthen other areas of on-going interdisciplinary research activity. Work already done on intercultural relations, community development and urban social movements, popular performance and education, African philosophy and semiotics, and visual anthropology, has complemented research and teaching into media-society relations.

The Centre also for the first time introduced and consolidated a number of interdisciplinary Working Groups drawing on academics and students from NU, the University of Durban-Westville, and the Natal and ML Sultan Technikons. Strong relations with community organisations remains a concern of the Centre, which worked intensively on a number of media and social development projects. The Centre initiated the formation of an informal Durban association of media/journalism/communication departments including the Natal and ML Sultan Technikons. The intention is to share resources and to facilitate inter-departmental cooperation and interaction.

Mr Eric Louw spent 5 weeks in the USA as a guest of the US Information Agency and the Office of International Programmes of the UDSA Graduate School. Along with a group of other African media professionals, he visited 8 cities where he met media managers and editors, public officials and academics. (KG Tomaselli)

Staffing

Director: Professor Keyan G Tomaselli
Lecturer: P Eric Louw
Part-Time Lecturers: Faruk Hoosain, Jeanne Prinsloo, Ruth Tomaselli
Temporary Researchers: 

• Christina Scott (Print Media) 1 April to 31 December 1991) (Funded by Canadian Embassy)
• Susan Ramsay (Intercultural Relations) 1 June 91 - 31 Dec 91 (Funded by Chairman's Fund, Urban Foundation)
• Arnold Shepperson (Semiotics and Research Methodology) (1 May - 31 Dec 91) (Funded by Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture, London)

Students Visiting: Dr Richard Collins, Senior Research Lecturers Trust Fund Associate, Goldsmiths College, London.
Ford Foundation Internship Researchers: Goodness Mavundla, Sandile Ngidi, Lara  Nursoo and Indran Pillay
Senior Admin. Assistant: Gwenyth Mills
P/T Messenger: Wallace S. Sibisi
Graduate Assistant: Christina Scott
Honorary Lecturers: Dr Derek Wang (Architecture), Prof Don Bedford (Physics)
Contributing Staff: Professors David Maughan Brown, Tony Voss, Dr Philipe Wade (English), Mary de Haas (Anthropology), Dr Andries Gouws (Philosophy), Prof John Poynton (Biological Sciences), Prof Bill Freund (Economic History); Prof Edgard Sienaert (Orality Studies).

Visiting Professors

Dr Michael Leslie, Department of Telecommunications, College of Journalism, Florida State University, Gainesville. 14 June - 14 July.
Dr Leslie's project was a comparative analysis of racial stereotypes seen in prime time TV in US, South African and Brazilian programming.

Ms Agnes Leslie, School of Journalism, University of Florida, Gainesville, 14 June - 14 July. (Visiting Scholar)
Ms Leslie was researching the Pan African News Agency.

Dr Larry Shore, Department of Communications, Hunter College, New York, 25 - 30 July
Dr Shore made extensive use of the Centre's archives and participated in seminars on the future of broadcasting in South Africa.

Dr James Zaffiro, Chairman, Department of Politics, Central College, Pella, Iowa. 31 July - 4 September.
Dr Zaffiro offered four seminars to CCMS students on research methodology; and four lectures through the Centre for Adult Education on foreign policy and media of Zimbabwe and Botswana. He supervised Honours long essays and initiated a comprehensive bibliography on broadcasting in Southern Africa.

Dr David Coplan, CHIC Program, State University of New York, Old Westbury. 14 -18 September. (Co-hosted by the Department of Anthropology through SVLTF).
Dr Coplan offered four seminars in the Popular Culture and Performance Honours course, some of which were attended by staff and students from the University of Zululand Drama Department and the Departments of Anthropology and Music from the University of Durban-Westville.

Dr Richard Collins, Senior Research Associate, Department of Communication, Goldsmiths College, London. SVLTF Lecturer. 20 September - 25 October.
Dr Collins offered seminars in the CCMS Honours course, Film/Video and Cultural Production, and assisted in supervision of MA and Ph.D theses. He collaborated with the Broadcasting/ Telecommunications Working Group and Durban Media Trainers' Group in generating responses to the Task Group Report into the Future of Broadcasting in South Africa. His visit was co-sponsored by the Departments of English (Durban) and Electronic Engineering, where he also offered seminars -- English: `British Cultural Theory and the Development of Cultural Studies'. Electronic Engineering: `The Cultural and Social Impacts of Satellites in Western Europe'.

Ms Lucia Saks, Department of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 28 Dec 1991 - 3 Jan 1992.
Analyis of South African cinema narratives.

Professor Danny Hurwitz, Department of Philiosophy, CalState, University, Los Angeles. 28 Dec 1991 - 3 Jan 1992

• Dr Brian Fontes, Federal Communications Commission, USA
• Dr Charles Malan, Programme for Contemporary Cultural Studies, HSRC, Pretoria.
• Ms Eunice Malan, Programme for Contemporary Cultural Studies, HSRC, Pretoria.
• Prof Tom Krattenmaker, Faculty of Law, Georgia University
• Peter Soal, Democratic Party MP, Spokesperson on Media
• Carol Charlewood, Democratic Party MP, Spokesperson on Media

Other Visitors

Marc Beare, Vrye Weekblad; Colin Belton, International Defence and Aid Fund, London; Prof Surendra Bhana, Centre for African and African-American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Veronique Faure, Centre d'Etudes d'Afrique Noire, Universite de Bordeaux; Ove Gustafsson, Nordic Institute of Missionary and Ecumenical Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden; George Jeffrey, Department of Commerce, Bulawayo Technikon; Dr Sheridian Johns, Department of Politics, Duke University, North Carolina; Dr Preben Kaarsholm, Political and Cultural Institutions in Development, International Development Studies, Roskilde University Centre, Denmark; Dr Mokobung Nkomo, College of Education and Allied Professions, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Cas Rasch, film maker; Professor David Smith, Department of Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London; Professor Colin Stoneman, Centre for Southern African Studies, University of York; and Professor Les Switzer, Department of Communication, University of Houston.

CCMS offered a Media Sociology course to first year Sociology students taught by P Eric Louw and Jeanne Prinsloo.

Honours courses:

• Theories of Culture** ** compulsory
• Theories of Language and Meaning**
• Theories of Media**
• Film/Video and Cultural Production
• Popular Performance and Culture

Doctoral:
Louw, P.E. Communication and the Counter-Hegemony in South Africa: The Case of the South African Progressive-Alternative Press.

Masters:
Baxter, V. Popular Performance and Resistance in the '80s: A Critique of Ideological Positions.
Ballot, J. An Evaluation of Film Study at White English-Medium Transvaal Secondary Schools, 1977-1988.
Hoosain, F. Secondary School Drama Teaching in South Africa as a Means of Constructing Alternative Cultural Practice.

• Chetty, A. Analysis of the SA State Attack on the 'Alternative Press' and Counter-Strategies Evolved by this Press, 1982-1987.
• Dunwoody, C. Ideology in a Mutating Society: South African Beer and Building Society Commercials.
• Emdon, C. The Demise of the South African English-Language Press, 1976-1989
• Holt, A. Racial Stereotyping and Content of SABC-TV Commercials, 1978-86, in the Context of Reformist Discourse.
• Mahomed, I. The Resistance Culture of the Victims of Housing: a contemporary history of grassroots organisations involved in housing issues in the greater Durban area 1980-1990. (Suspended for 1991).
• Markowitz, S. The Necessity and Viability of a Documentary Subsidy System in a Post-Apartheid South Africa.
• Ramsingh, B. Women's Participation in Leisure-as-Resistance Through Sport in Durban 1984-1989. (Suspended for 1991).
• Vergunst, N. Revolutionary Culture and Images of Political Struggle in South Africa Since 1976 (Suspended for 1990/1).
• Yasbek, A. The Rise of an Indigenous Social Realism in South African Cinema During the 1980s.

• Munro, L. Representations of British Royalty in SA Magazines: an analysis of order of signification and symbols in English and Afrikaans-language SA magazines, 1945-1984.
• Tomaselli, R. Popularising Change and Consent: the discourse of politics and the politics of discourse in the SA media.

Community Orientation

Media

Alternative Press Project:
An on-going project aimed at documenting the development of this media. Development of a feasibility model for the establishment of a commercial-alternative newspaper. Christina Scott.

Durban Media Trainers Group:
A project to provide skills and theory training to anti-apartheid media workers in the greater Durban region. CCMS has been involved with the project from its inception. Dr Richard Collins was brought in as an outside specialist in extensive discussions between the American Consulate and DMTG/CCMS with regard to strategies to facilitate broadcasters and media groups coming together to respond to the Report of Task Group into the Future of Broadcasting.

Broadcasting/Telecommunications Working Group:
This body, initiated in 1991 by CCMS, is a loose formation of academics and students from NU, University of Durban-Westville, Natal Technikon and the ML Sultan Technikon. Its members are drawn from media studies, journalism, sociology, education, electronic engineering, business administration, English and so on. During the year, the following seminars and meetings were held:

• Dr Michael Fontes, Federal Communication Commission, USA: Broadcasting Regulations in the United States.
• Ruth Tomaselli, CCMS: Report on HSRC Conference, 'The Covering of Current Affairs in Broadcasting', SA Broadcasting Corporation, Johannesburg.
• Dr Michael Leslie, CCMS Visiting Professor; Department of Telecommunications, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA: The Black Image: Comparative Study of Prime-Time TV portrayals in South Africa and the United States.
• Agnes Leslie, CCMS Visiting Faculty, University of Florida, Gainesville: The Pan-African News Agency, and Zambian Media.
• Victor Mkize, Centre for Oral Studies, Natal University:
Management and Business Restructuring within the SABC.
• Prof Tom Krattenmaker, Georgetown University/Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Department of Public Law, UND. Peter Soal, MP, Democratic Spokesperson on Media: A Debate on the Democratic Party's Draft Principles on Telecommunications and Broadcasting.
• Dr James Zaffiro, Department of Politics, Central College, Pella, Iowa, CCMS Visiting Professor: Broadcasting in Zimbabwe: Lessons for Post-Apartheid South Africa?
• Dr Mike Morris and SE Stavrou, Centre for Social and Development Studies, University of Natal, Durban: Telecommunications Needs and Provision to Black Areas.

Broadcasting/Telecommunications Working Group (CCMS), Capital Radio, Congress of Natal Campus Radio Associations, Durban Media Trainers' Group, Media Resource Centre, and the Natal Organisation of Video and Allied Workers:

Report Back on Conference: "Jabulani! - Freedom of the Airwaves", held at Doorn, Holland 11-18 August 1991.

Dr Richard Collins, Department of Communication, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Seminar jointly hosted by CCMS and the SA Institute for Electrical Engineers (Durban): Satellites in Western Europe: Their Social and Cultural Impact.

1. Bibliographic Compilation of Sources on Broadcasting in Southern Africa, with Special Reference to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia. James Zaffiro and Zith Mahaye.
2. Broadcasting and Telecommunications Policy in the Coming South Africa. Special Issue of Critical Arts being edited by Richard Collins. Additional research by Eric Louw, Ruth Tomaselli and Zith Maheye.
3. Critique of the Task Group Report into the Future of Broadcasting in Southern Africa. Eric Louw, Ruth Tomaselli, Zith Mahaye, Prof Laurie McCarney (Business Administration, PMB), and Simon Burton (Sociology, PMB) and John Gultig (Education, PMB).

The Centre was invited by the Scottish Film Council and the British Film Institute to participate in an international research project to publish a package on aspects of social advertising consisting of a book, learning materials and a videotape. The project is called `Changing Minds: a media education package on social advertising'. CCMS coordinator is Alex Holt.

• Tomaselli, K.G. Consultant for Villon Films, New York State, on South Africa: The Propaganda War.
• Tomaselli, K.G. SA Consultant for Amie Williams, African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, on NANA: New Beginnings, a reflexive 16mm film on interfacing between American and black South African youth in the Eastern Cape.
• Tomaselli, K.G. SA Consultant for Three A Productions, Austria/Germany, on Call For Freedom, a 45 minute documentary on South African feature films of the 1980s.

The workshops listed below were all conducted by Faruk Hoosain:

• Drama as Practice for Freedom and the Freedom for Praxis - teaching critical environmental awareness and social action. Drama Education, Sastry College, and the SAADYT Conference, University of Witwatersrand.
• Shakespeare in the Townships - localising texts for the community. SAADYT Conference (Wits University) and the Midlands Educational Development Unit, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
• Experiential Learning for Nation-Building (2 day conference) for Teachers Association in South Africa (TASA) Subject Committees.
• Experiential Learning Techniques (2 workshops) - Superintendents of Education (Academic) Division of Curriculum development (House of Delegates).
• Development Education for Teachers of Geography. TASA Geography Society.
• Interactive Learning Methods for Health Educators and Community Social Work Staff. Experiential Play Building Techniques - AIDS and Child Abuse Awareness Workers. Durban City Health Education Section.
• An Emancipatory Learning Agenda for Drama Pupils. School of Dramatic Art, University of Witwatersrand.
• Co-Facilitator in Play Building Workshops for Culture and Working Life Project, University of Natal, Durban.

* Playlets on AIDS and Child Abuse for:

• Opening of Newlands East Clinic
• AIDS Workshop for Womens' Movement in Newlands West, Fosa Clinic
• National Conference of Social Workers.

Centre for Development Studies (CDS)
CDS is an initiative aimed at drawing together progressive academics to conduct research into post-apartheid South Africa. During the second half of 1990 and the first half of 1991 a CDS project into 'South African Cultural Formations' used CCMS as its co-ordinating base. Supervisory Board: P Eric Louw, Prof Ari Sitas, Chantelle Wyley, Prof Chris Ballantine, and Preea Narsimulu (UDW). Project leader: Thumida Maistry, plus numerous field workers.

Phoenix Settlement Trust
Eric Louw is a Trustee of the Trust and chairperson of the Phoenix Settlement Development Committee. The Phoenix Trust administers the legacy of Gandhi and the Settlement, which was destroyed in the mid- '80s through political violence. The Trust has begun investigating a redevelopment of the area.

Westville Residents' Support Group (WRSG)
This initiative, constituted to oppose the Group Areas Act, started in 1988, but came to a close at the end of 1991. CCMS conducted extensive research on behalf of WRSG and contributed much to the success of its campaign. A continuing research group examining Westville's history, land values and social change, and intercultural relations, consists of Prof Keyan Tomaselli, Susan Ramsay, Ruth Tomaselli (CCMS), Mr Steve Piper (Statistical Consultant to the Faculty of Social Sciences), Dr Devi Rajab (Dean, Student Counselling), Martin Wittenberg (Geography, PMB) and Dr Louwhart Stears (Head, Sociology, UDW).

Community Orientated Seminars and Forums

Eric Louw

• Media training Courses organised by DMTG for community groups.
• "Women Imaged on Film", UND-SRC Orientation Day.
• "The Post-Apartheid Classroom. Teachers' Association of South Africa (TASA), Springfield College
• "South African Media: Shifting Patterns on Control and Ideology". 4 lectures in the Department of English, University of Durban-Westville.
• "Building Community-Campus Radio Stations". Congress of Natal Campus Radio Association launch, University of Natal, Durban.

Keyan Tomaselli

• "Intercultual Relations in Solving Educational Problems", TASA, Springfield College
•  "Surviving in the US", Pre-Departure Orientation Program, USIS. American Cultural Center, Durban.

• Ballot, J. 1991: "An Overview of and Report on the Role of Media Studies in English-Medium Secondary Schools in the Transvaal". In Prinsloo, J. and Criticos, C. (eds.): Media Matters in South Africa. Media Resource Centre, University of Natal, Durban, pp. 62-70.
• Emdon, C. 1991: "The Natal Violence: Developing a Model for Evaluating Newspaper Information". In Prinsloo and Criticos, op. cit., pp. 189-205.
• Louw, P.E. 1991: "Media Education -- A Contemporary Cultural Studies Perspective". In Prinsloo and Criticos, op. cit., pp. 233-240.
• Louw, P.E. 1991: The Growth of Monopoly Control of the South African Press. Review Discussion Paper 1, Rhodes Journalism Review. No 2, 12pp.
• Prinsloo, J. 1991: "Considerations of Narrative in Media Education'. In Prinsloo and Criticos, op cit., pp. 120-140.
• Sutherland, J-L. 1991: "Media Education - A Progressive Terrain". In Prinsloo and Criticos, op. cit., pp. 51-55.
• Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: "Der "Andere" im Film: Macht, Ausbeuting und Anthropologische Verantwortung". In Kapfer, R., Petermann, W. and Thoms, R. (eds): Jager und Gejadte: John Marshall und seine Filme. Trickster Verlag, Munich, pp. 180-188.
• Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: "The Heroism of an Anti-Hero: Panic in the Streets". In Achebe, C. et al (eds.): Library of African Cinema. California Newsreel, San Francisco, pp. 26-27.
• Tomaselli, K.G. and Louw, P.E. (eds.) 1991: The Alternative Press in South Africa. Anthropos, Bellville in association with James Currey, London.
• Tomaselli, K.G. and Maingard, J. 1990: "Anti-Apartheid Cinema: Internal Struggles; External Representations". In Kotze, A. (ed.): Cinema Under Seige, SA Community Cultural Centre, Amsterdam, pp.8-12.
• Urbasch, M. 1991: "Some Reflections of Hegemony and the Hegemony of Teaching". In Prinsloo and Criticos, op. cit., pp. 285-292.

• Louw, P.E. 1991: "Media, Media Education and the Development of South Africa", Screen, Vol 32 No 4, pp. 32-42.
• Louw, P.E. 1991: "Rethinking the Library for Post-Apartheid Cultural Literacy", Innovation No 2, pp. 3-6.
• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: "Semiotics of Apartheid: The Struggle for the Sign", S - European Journal for Semiotic Studies, Vol 3 Nos 1 & 2, pp. 99-110.
• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: "South African Politics: Mapping the Constituency", Directions, Vol 5 No 1, pp. 1-3.
• Tomaselli, K.G. and Louw, P.E. 1991: "Disinformation and the South African Defense Force's Theory of War", Social Justice, Vol 18 Nos 1 & 2, pp. 124-140.
• Tomaselli, K.G. and Shepperson, A. 1991: "Popularising Semiotics", Communication Research Trends, Vol 11 Nos 1 & 2, pp. 1-27 (Vol 1); pp. 1-22 (Vol 2).
• Tomaselli, K.G. and Smith, G. 1990: "Sign Wars: The Battlegrounds of Semiotics of the Cinema in Anglo-Saxonia". Degres: Revue se Synthese a Orientation Semiologique, No 64, pp. c-c26.

• Collins, R. and Louw, P.E. 1991: "Broadcasting Reforms: Fine Tuning the Apartheid Channel", Indicator SA, Vol 9 No 1, pp. 19-22.
• Louw, P.E. 1991: "And in this Corner: Reply to Lascaris", Rhodes Journalism Review, Vol 1 No 3, pp. 49-50.
• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: "The 1990 Reforms and the Alternative Media in South Africa", Group Media Journal, Vol 10 No 2, pp. 18-19.
• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: "Ecumenical Broadcasting in the Post-Apartheid Era", Grapevine: Papers on Ministry and Mission, No 33, pp. 12-19.
• Parker, W. 1991/92: "AIDS and the Press", AIDS Analysis on Africa: Southern African Edition, Vol 2 No 4, p. 9.
• Tomaselli, R.E. 1991: "Media Images of Violence: South Africa's Hidden Hand'", Covert Action, No 36, pp. 22-26.
• Tomaselli, R.E. 1991: "Inkathagate: Covert Funding - Overt Violence", Covert Action, No 38, pp.39-43.

• Collins, R. 1991: "Road to Reform", Broadcast (November 8), p. 19.
• Louw, P.E. 1991: A Critical Analysis of the Durban Media Trainers' Group. Seminars in Contemporary Cultural Studies No 10. 12pp.
• Louw, P.E. and Marais, H. 1991: "The Pornography of Poverty", New Era (Summer), pp. 12-13.
• Scott, S. 1991: Electronic Media in Natal 1991. Resource Document 5.
• Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: "In Whose Image: Can a White Director Make a Black Film?" New Era (Spring), pp. 18-20.
• Tomaselli, R.E. 1991: "The Covering of Current Affairs in Broadcasting", Essays on South African Questions 2, CCMS, 5pp.
• Tomaselli, R.E. "Introduction to Radio". Two articles commissioned by SACHED published in Learning Nation. (October 1991).

• Favis, M. and Louw, P.E. Media and Development. Discussion Paper commissioned by National Media Trainers' Forum. 5pp.
• Glavovic, J. A Comparison Between Antonio Gramsci's Notion of the Integral State and Louis Althusser's Notion of the Ideological State Apparatuses.
• Maistry, T. Resistance Cultural Formations in South Africa. Commissioned by the Centre for Development Studies. 100pp.
• Parker, W. The Relevance of Specialised Print Media in Controlling HIV Infection in South Africa. 16pp.
• Scott, Christina. Notes on the Intimidation of Natal Journalists and Information Workers, 1982-1991. 17pp.
• Scott, Chuck. Lesotho Herders Video Project: Explorations in Visual Anthropology. 90pp.
• Shepperson, A. Teaching the 'Same' and Reading the 'Other': Philosophy, Science and the Possibility of Cultural Studies. 60pp.
• Tomaselli, K.G. A Critique of Cultural Categorisation. In Malan, C. (Project Leader, Staat en Kultuur): 'Verslag van Subprojek Nr 1: Algemene Kultuurbenaderings, met Verwysing na die Rol van die Staat'. HSRC Programme in Contemporary Cultural Studies, pp. 27-35.
• Tomaselli, K.G. 1991. Overcoming the Group Areas Act: Social Movements in Westville, 1988-1991. 70pp.
• Tomaselli, K.G. and Homiak, J. Commentary on Shot Logs and 16mm Offcuts of the Marshall Family Expeditionary Films, 1950-1978, Held in the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. 22pp.
• Urbasch, M. Free Enterprise Ideology and its Reception Amongst the Disenfranchised. 120pp.

G. Publications Edited Through the Centre

• Critical Arts: A Journal for Cultural Studies is published twice a year on behalf of Critical Arts Projects.
• Communication Research Trends. Published by Centre for the Study of Culture and Communication, London. Issue editors Vol 11 Nos 2 & 3: Keyan Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson: 'Popularising Semiotics', 1991, 56pp. Book review contributors from CCMS: Russell Baker, Jane Ballot, Alex Holt, Zithuthele Maheye, Lara Nursoo, Ruth Tomaselli.
• Resource Document 2: "Preliminary Report on the Task Group into the Future of Broadcasting".
• Resource Document 3: "A Critique of the Democratic Party's Policy on Telecommunications and Broadcasting." Contributors: Peter Soal, Prof Tom Krattenmaker, Dr Larry Shore, Prof Laurie McCarney, Dr James Zaffiro, Ruth Tomaselli.
• Resource Document 4: "Electronic Media in Natal - 1991". Christina Scott.
• Essays on South African Questions 2: "The Covering of Current Affairs in Broadcasting". Ruth Tomaselli.

• P Eric Louw - Editorial Co-ordinator: Critical Arts; Referee: Ecquid Novi and Communicare. Keyan Tomaselli - Editor: Critical Arts; Editorial Board Member: Communicare, Ecquid Novi; Continuum: An Australian Journal of the Media; SA Theatre Journal. Ruth Tomaselli - Associate Editor: Critical Arts. Keyan Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson - Issue Editors: Communication Research Trends.

• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: "Politics of Religious Broadcasting in the Coming South Africa". In The Contribution of South African Religions to the Coming South Africa. University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. 17pp.
• Louw, P.E. 1991: "Report on the Media Research Policy Workshop held at UNIBO". DMTG Workshop on Media Policy, Training and Campaigns Proceedings, p. 3.
• Paxton, A. 1991: "Method and Madness: An Approach to the Use of Drama Techniques in Second Language Teaching". In Hagemann, F. (ed.): Perspectives on Transforming Education Through Drama and Theatre. Southern African Association for Drama and Youth Theatre, Johannesburg, pp. 69-74.
• Tomaselli, R.E. 1991: "Introduction". DMTG Workshop on Media Policy, Training and Campaigns Proceedings, pp. 1-2.

• CCMS: Worldnet TV Conference with CNN. American Cultural Centre, Durban. Dialogue also with journalists in Accra and Nairobi.
• Baker, R. "Surpassing Feathers and Leathers: representations of gays and lesbians in the media". Association for Sociology in South Africa, University of Cape Town.
• Emdon, C.: "Newspaper Coverage of the Natal Violence: Developing a Critique of Newspaper Practice". Association for Sociology in South Africa, University of Cape Town.
• Louw, P.E. "The Three left-Wing Press Genres to Emerge from the South African Popular Struggle of the 1980s". And "Using the Media to Build Popular Democracy: The Grassroots newspaper experience in Cape Town". `Century of the Resistance Press in South Africa', University of Western Cape.
• Louw, P.E. "Rethinking Development: A proposal for integrating media into a reconstruction of South Africa". Association for Sociology in South Africa, University of Cape Town.
• Louw, P.E. "Modern Media Technology, Democratic Communication Policy". And "Language Policy and Media Policy: An overview of available options". `NLP Democratic Approaches to Language Planning and Standardization'.
• Louw, P.E. Delegate. Broadcasting and Telecommunication Workshop, FAWO/University of Bophuthatswana.
• Louw, P.E. Official University Delegate. `The Radio Learning Project Consultative Conference.' An Open Learning Systems Education Trust Project, Johannesburg.
• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. "Politics of Religious Broadcasting in the Coming South Africa". `The Contribution of South African Religions to the Coming South Africa,' University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
• Mahaye, Z. Invited delegate. `Jabulani - Freedom of the Airwaves', Doorn, The Netherlands.
• Mahaye, Z. Delegate. `The Radio Learning Project Consultative Conference.' An Open Learning Systems Education Trust Project, Johannesburg.
• Paxton, A.F. "Drama and Second-Language Teaching: Some Problematics and Possible Options", Association of Drama Departments of South Africa, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
• Prinsloo, J. Invited delegate. `Jabulani - Freedom of the Airwaves', Doorn, The Netherlands.
• Prinsloo, J. Panelist: `Pictorial, Film and TV Studies in Departments of Communication/Journalism in South Africa'. Communication (Film and TV Studies) Interest Group, SA Communication Association, Pretoria.
• Tomaselli, K.G. Opening Address: "The Role of the Mass Media in Promoting Intercultural Communication". SA Communication Association Conference, Half-Way House (September) Conference on `Communication in a Changing South African Society (II): Intercultural Perspectives.'
• Tomaselli, R.E. Invited delegate. `Jabulani - Freedom of the Airwaves', Doorn, The Netherlands.
• Tomaselli, R.E. "The Role of the Mass Media in the Perpetuation of International Support for the Apartheid Regime". `Southern Africa and the Crisis in the Third World' Conference, Wayne State University. Co- conveners: Department of Africana Studies, Pan-African Students Union, SA Students Committee, and Nelson Mandela Reception Committee of Detroit.
• Tomaselli, R.E. Delegate. Broadcasting and Telecommunication Workshop, FAWO/University of Bophuthatswana.
• Tomaselli, R.E. Delegate. `The Radio Learning Project Consultative Conference.' An Open Learning Systems Education Trust Project, Johannesburg.

Tomaselli, K.G. Durban International Film Festival. Panelist on two Seminars on South African and African cinema.

Tomaselli, K.G. Official University Delegate. Report by Task Group into the Future of Broadcasting in South Africa, Radio 702, Johannesburg.

Prof Tomaselli convened a University Broadcasting Committee at the request of the University Executive, which included Eric Louw; and a committee (including Ms Prinsloo) to investigate the videotaping of first year lectures on behalf of Board of University Educational Development. Tomaselli also initiated a Joint Academic Staff Association investigation into SAPSE journal accreditation and served on the Faculty of Humanities Computer Committee. Mr Louw also served on the Safety Committee.

• Louw, P.E. Convener of the Popular Culture and Media Working Group, Association for Sociology in South Africa.
• Louw, P.E. Management Committee, Durban Media Trainers' Group.
• Louw, P.E. Coordinating Committee of CDS 'Cultural Formations' Project. (Completed in June)
• Tomaselli, K.G. Advisory Committee, Programme for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria.
• Tomaselli, K.G. Committee Member, SA Communications Association

• Anti-Censorship Action Group, Johannesburg
• Association of Democratic Journalists.
• Durban Media Trainers' Group.

Various of the Centre's activities were sponsored by the following: Ford Foundation Internship Program (through Academic Support Services), Anglo-American Chairman's Fund, the Urban Foundation, Canadian Embassy, Foundation for Creative Arts, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture (London), the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, Church of the Province, and the British Council. Thanks to Richard Collins for the donation of books and Mavis Fatti for journals.

1991

• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: The emergence of a South African left-wing press during the 1980s. Chapter to be published in L. Switzer History of the South African Black Press. Cambridge University Press
• Tomaselli, K.G and Louw, P.E. 1990: Communication Studies in South Africa: from ivory tower idealism and functionalism to attempts at praxis, in Dervin, B. (ed.): Progress in Communication Sciences, 10. Ablex, New Jersey
• Louw, P.E. The visual Arts and black South Africans (German book)
• Louw, P.E. The South African perfoming arts -- from Arts Councils to townships. (German book)
• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. 1990 The SA Defence Forces Theory of War, Social Justice, December.
• Tomaselli, K.G. 1990: Documentary, Struggle and Power Relationships, The CILECT Review No 3 (Brussels).
• Tomaselli, K.G. and Louw, P.E. 1990: "Disinformation and Dirty Tricks: Making Sense of Information", SA Journal of Human Rights. (Johannesburg).

1991

• Louw, P.E. and Tomaselli, K.G. 1991: The emergence of a South African left-wing press during the 1980s. Chapter to be published in L. Switzer History of the South African Black Press. Cambridge University Press
• Tomaselli, K.G and Louw, P.E. 1990: Communication Studies in South Africa: from ivory tower idealism and functionalism to attempts at praxis, in Dervin, B. (ed.): Progress in Communication Sciences, 10. Ablex, New Jersey
• Mapantsula. Review for Cineaste. (Forthcoming).
• "The 'Other' in Film: Power, Exploitation and Anthropological Responsibility". In W. Petermann (ed.): John Marshall Retrospective. Trickster Verlag, Aachen (Forthcoming 1991).
• "Myths, Racism and Opportunism: Contemporary Film and TV Representations of the San", In Crawford, P.I. and Turton, D. (eds): Film As Ethnography. Manchester University Press (Forthcoming 1991).
• "Media and Struggle: Carving Democratic Spaces". In Drayton, A. and Bhana, S. (eds.): South Africa Beyond Apartheid. Kansas University (Forthcoming 1991).
• (With Kevin Brown): "Visual Anthropology and Documentary Style: Classified People, CVA Review (Forthcoming 1991).
• (With Tomaselli, RE): Covert Action "The Heroism of an Anti-Hero: Panic in the Streets", Southern African Media Center Catalogue, San Francisco. (Forthcoming - January 1991).
• Mapantsula. Review for Cineaste. (Forthcoming).
• "Anti-Apartheid Cinema - Internal Struggles: External Representations", Programme: South African Community Cultural Centre Film Festival, Amsterdam. April 1990
• "The 'Other' in Film: Power, Exploitation and Anthropological Responsibility". In W. Petermann (ed.): John Marshall Retrospective. Trickster Verlag, Aachen (Forthcoming 1991).
• "Myths, Racism and Opportunism: Contemporary Film and TV Representations of the San", In Crawford, P.I. and Turton, D. (eds): Film As Ethnography. Manchester University Press (Forthcoming 1991).
• "Media and Struggle: Carving Democratic Spaces". In Drayton, A. and Bhana, S. (eds.): South Africa Beyond Apartheid. Kansas University (Forthcoming 1991).
• (With Kevin Brown): "Visual Anthropology and Documentary Style: Classified People, CVA Review (Forthcoming 1991).
• (With Tomaselli, RE): Covert Action