I did an investigation on a few news websites found here in south africa. I used three websites and they all had more or less the same thing and a very few things were different.I used the websites Newa24,EWN, and the SABC.
The first website I went to was News24 which,and not taking anythin away from them,is not very good designed and do not have a lot of visible options in their side bars.
There was one great thing though about website is,unlike other news publication's websites,they often have to go deep into the details of almost every particular story if it develops or not and also decides on what angle it is to be used. They also a great balance between Local,african, or international content but they have a very poor sport-content balance because they give less attention to entertainment and sports.
The second website I looked at was the Eye witness news (ewn) website. Here you get news every minute of the day,but being a constant reader of the site myself I usually find some rathe feelings that they are targeting a white community and that may be because of the fact that when he cover sport stories they nevr cover local soccer unless it is a huge stories that ot only south africans are interested in.
The setup of their website is boring,it is too pure,which might turn out to be a good thing,but still they used colours that are not really appealing and do not really call you to come and read it. However, they have,by far, the best options bars because it has all been put on one page and it is clear which means it will be simple for everyone to see it. One thing that is very clear is that they are about news and that can be justified by the fact that they have very few and small advertisements on the site.
Out of all three news websites I visited the SABC one was the best one because they have the best links and they use the right colour for their website design and their news genres and catergories are well too clear.the only thing the lack however is the availability of advertisements in the site and that can sometimes work in their disadvantage.
Reading the SABC website you can also see that they are a public broadcast who target local audienc ,this you see because of the fact that they have local news as leading stories and internatonal stories are just there but not as a priority.
http://www.sabc.co.za/news
http://www.ewn.co.za/
http://www.news24.com/
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Zambia Has a Few Lessons for Bigger Football Nations
Many are now asking what Zambia’s secret is after they cruised to African victory at the recent Cup of Nations tournament. It is simple - they have a well-run football association, under the guidance of football legend Kalusha Bwalya. That is a rarity in African football as many leaders of associations often fight to enrich themselves. The president of the association being a former footballer himself means that he knows what his players needs are and therefore takes care of them. Imagine football legends like Lucas Radebe running SAFA, Sunday Oliseh or Jay Jay Okocha in Nigeria, Misheck Marimo or Peter Ndlovu in Zimbabwe and the list goes on.
Despite the great support they received from their football association, Zambia also held the hopes of people in the southern Africa region after Botswana crashed in the group stages of the tournament. A few minutes before the final on Sunday the 12th February 2012 – many people showed their support for Zambia via social networks and that was proof that regional unity is possible through sport.
Before the start of the African Cup of Nations football tournament no one could have predicted Zambia would be the cause of much celebration on the streets of South Africa. In the absence of Bafana Bafana, which often fails to make an impact in such tournaments, Cameroon, Egypt and Nigeria, many tipped countries like Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia, Angola, Mali and finalists Cote D’Ivoire to be the ones who’d probably take the trophy home.
As the competition progressed it appeared there was one team, with predominantly local based players, that just kept on making them fall. Chipolopolo, as Zambia is affectionately known, had a few surprises opponents and they first proved their worthiness to be at the tournament by first getting rid of.
As the competition started people were talking about the likes of Didier Drogba, Asamoah Gyan, Seydou Keita, Andre Ayew, and Khaled Korbi, but nothing was ever said about Chris Katongo, Kennedy Mweene, Isaac Chansa, and Emmanuel Mayuka amongst others. These are Zambian names that just roll off tongues of any football loving African now. And it took just a few weeks for that to be the case.
It was quite amazing to see a team that nobody, including me, ever gave a chance beating the co-host Equatorial Guinea by one goal to nil, playing a 2-all draw with Libya and then finishing up their group campaign by beating the favourites, Senegal by two goals to one. It was after their 3-0 win over Sudan that got them a lot attention.
Then came the famous win against the star-studded black stars of Ghana who were African martyrs during the football world Cup in South Africa almost two years ago. They proceeded to face other giants of African football, Tunisia. And they cruised through them.
During the final Zambia, under the leadership of their ever-hardworking captain Chris Katongo, proved to be hungrier for the trophy than their opponents Cote D’Ivoire. Despite many questioning bad refereeing on social networks – the Zambians would constantly pick themselves up and go back into battle against the West African giants. And after the final whistle many across Southern Africa took to the streets of their various villages, towns and cities to celebration hard work which led to amazing success.
Despite the great support they received from their football association, Zambia also held the hopes of people in the southern Africa region after Botswana crashed in the group stages of the tournament. A few minutes before the final on Sunday the 12th February 2012 – many people showed their support for Zambia via social networks and that was proof that regional unity is possible through sport.
Before the start of the African Cup of Nations football tournament no one could have predicted Zambia would be the cause of much celebration on the streets of South Africa. In the absence of Bafana Bafana, which often fails to make an impact in such tournaments, Cameroon, Egypt and Nigeria, many tipped countries like Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia, Angola, Mali and finalists Cote D’Ivoire to be the ones who’d probably take the trophy home.
As the competition progressed it appeared there was one team, with predominantly local based players, that just kept on making them fall. Chipolopolo, as Zambia is affectionately known, had a few surprises opponents and they first proved their worthiness to be at the tournament by first getting rid of.
As the competition started people were talking about the likes of Didier Drogba, Asamoah Gyan, Seydou Keita, Andre Ayew, and Khaled Korbi, but nothing was ever said about Chris Katongo, Kennedy Mweene, Isaac Chansa, and Emmanuel Mayuka amongst others. These are Zambian names that just roll off tongues of any football loving African now. And it took just a few weeks for that to be the case.
It was quite amazing to see a team that nobody, including me, ever gave a chance beating the co-host Equatorial Guinea by one goal to nil, playing a 2-all draw with Libya and then finishing up their group campaign by beating the favourites, Senegal by two goals to one. It was after their 3-0 win over Sudan that got them a lot attention.
Then came the famous win against the star-studded black stars of Ghana who were African martyrs during the football world Cup in South Africa almost two years ago. They proceeded to face other giants of African football, Tunisia. And they cruised through them.
During the final Zambia, under the leadership of their ever-hardworking captain Chris Katongo, proved to be hungrier for the trophy than their opponents Cote D’Ivoire. Despite many questioning bad refereeing on social networks – the Zambians would constantly pick themselves up and go back into battle against the West African giants. And after the final whistle many across Southern Africa took to the streets of their various villages, towns and cities to celebration hard work which led to amazing success.
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