Abstract The study set out to explore the discourses in the column Chronicles from the Second Chimurenga in The Sunday Mail .The intention was to find out if it is nationalistic historiography or patriotic history or both histories being propagated on the Column Chronicles from the Second Chimurenga .The theoretical framework of the study is informed by the framing theory and concepts of nationalistic historiography and patriotic history .Methodologically the study is grounded in the qualitat...
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ABSTRACT Language is a political tool used to legitimise, delegitimise, produce and (re)produce dominance. In Zimbabwe, ZANU-PF advertisements for the July 2013 elections were an attempt to deploy language to (re)produce dominance. The advertisements were produced in the context of a power-sharing government comprising ZANU-PF and the MDCs. Adopting sign theory, the article uses legitimation analysis to explore the ways in which ZANU-PF used language to retain dominance. Research revealed tha...
ABSTRACT Media representation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) disease has greatly influenced how the disease and those who are affected by it are perceived in the society, thus often causing stigma towards those infected and affected. This dissertation therefore investigated to what extent stigma is present in print media reporting on HIV & AIDS in Namibia. This is because controlling the spread and managing HIV & AIDS in the country has be...
ABSTRACT The minister responsible for the management of government information in Namibia, as well as commentators, have expressed concern about public relations practice in government ministries, arguing that citizens are disadvantaged and the full spectrum of the advantages effective communication confers are lost at the national and transnational level (Kapitako, 2013; Mutambo, 2014; Namibia News Digest, n.d.). This study sets out to compare public relations practice in the Namibian publi...