Acknowledgements

A research project of this magnitude depends on contributions from a wide range of people for its success. I would like to take an opportunity to acknowledge the many people who have contributed in different ways to the compilation of this report.

First, thanks are due to SABC Television Education and the Department of Education for supporting this research project. Of course, their involvement included the funding of the research itself. In addition, however, people from both the SABC and the Department participated regularly in project meetings, workshops, interviews, resource provision, and conceptualization of key areas of the report. In addition to those people who participated in interviews and workshops (separately acknowledged in appendices to this report), I would like to single out the following, who have given of their time and ideas in compiling this report: Vis Naidoo; Mashala Kwape; Nicola Galombik; Sam Makhubu; and Siven Maslamoney.

In addition to these people, this research has relied on many people for research input. The final report does not reflect these individual contributions as clearly as it should, as the nature of the research has demanded that they be integrated to create a coherent document. Nevertheless, each has contributed an essential building block to the final product, and is worthy of acknowledgement. We are indebted to the many people who contributed ideas through workshops, interviews, and e-mail and fax correspondence. There are simply too many people to mention individually here. We have, however, included appendices to this report that acknowledge the contributions of these individuals. This report would have been much less comprehensive and relevant without all of their inputs.

Finally, many people at SAIDE contributed to the construction of this report, and is worth mentioning separately:

• Jennifer Glennie – as director of SAIDE, Jenny has played an important role in planning the project and ensuring that the necessary organizational requirements were in place to enable its effective implementation. She has also participated actively in the conceptualization of key ideas, and has contributed to the general management of the project.

• Kali Sachinis – Kali was the SABC project manager. As such, she was responsible for a range of tasks, including: providing input to the project plan; monitoring budgets; contracting researchers; organizing workshops; and assisting with the compilation of the final report. Her contribution has been essential to the success of the project.

• Monge Tlaka – Monge played a vital role in coordinating and implementing the consultative workshops that we organized for this research.

• Chika Sehoole – Chika joined SAIDE at a crucial time in this research process, and contributed extensively to the report, particularly by taking responsibility for conducting and writing up several of the interviews that constituted our major primary research exercise. He also compiled initial drafts of one of the broadcasting scenarios presented in chapter five, and helped with editing and compilation of the final report.

Two people at SAIDE have provided particular support to me in completing this project, and they are Merlyn van Voore and Nicky Roberts. Merlyn and Nicky were contracted on a full-time basis to provide research support to this project. They have worked tirelessly over the past five months, conducting research, organizing and administering interviews, contributing to conceptual development exercises, and participating in the report-writing process. Without their contributions, this report simply would not have been possible. Merlyn took responsibility for compiling chapters one and three, parts of chapter five, and associated appendices. Nicky was responsible for compiling chapter two, parts of chapter five, and associated appendices. I am particularly grateful to them both for the extensive contributions that they have both made to the successful completion of this project.

Neil Butcher

SABC Project Team Leader