Differently from mainstream media, community media has a mandate to reflect community and be owned by communiy, to promote and encourage media development, transformation and diversity.

Yet, authors of this journal find that women's representation and rights continue to be largely ignored or neglected in community media, and women still hold limited decision-making powers in this sector.

In 2000, 189 nations committed themselves to effectively respond to the world's main development challenges by 2015. They set themselves eight MDGs: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and women's empowerment, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a Global Partnership for Development.

Journalists from all over Southern Africa write for this page.

Each 160-page journal is theme-specific with contributions from activists and researchers from all over the continent as well as other parts of the developing world.