South Africa: Community Media Empowers Marginalised Communities

Pretoria — Community media serve to empower marginalised communities to define and manage their own development, says Communications Minister Faith Muthambi.

"As such, community media are driven by democratic principles which are socially oriented and not profit driven. These factors make community media different from commercial, public, or private media," said the Minister on Thursday.

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