Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) - SA Chapter

MISA is a regional membership–based non–government organisation working towards a free, independent, pluralistic, sustainable media environment.

MISA - South Africa is a chapter of MISA, Africa’s largest media advocacy NGO based in Windhoek Namibia. The body was established as a direct response to the challenge of the Windhoek Declaration in 1991. We work to ensure a media that educates informs and empowers all sectors of society and that helps journalists and media workers to exercise their rights so that they can inform the public without fear or favor.

We are at the forefront of initiatives to ensure to redress imbalances in our society especially in and through the media.

The programmes and activities of MISA – SA are done to ensure the growth and consolidation of a vigorous, free and independent South African press that will tell the South African story and foster democracy and development through communication in the public interest.