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Thank You for a Year of Impactful Collaboration: A Letter from Mamaponya Motsai
Dear friends, As we close out 2025, I want to take this moment to reflect on the year we’ve had and to thank you for walking alongside fraycollege in strengthening media and communication for the benefit of people across the continent. This has...
Africa Health Communications Fellowship Film Festival
On the 10th of December, we celebrate the work that the Africa Health Communications Fellowship cohort has done with an online film festival event. This film festival will reflect the Fellowship’s commitment to strengthening evidence-based health...
Journalists Must Be “Agents of Change” in Reporting GBV
Journalists across Africa must move beyond sensationalist headlines and take up their role as catalysts for change in addressing gender-based violence (GBV). This was the central message of the fraycollege webinar “Reporting GBV in Africa”, where...
Three Main Takeaways from the Webinar on How Journalists can Center Africa’s Voice and Agency at G20 2025
As Africa hosts the G20 and B20 Summits in November 2025, we have a rare opportunity to shape global conversations, not as passive recipients of policy, but as partners in solutions. From our webinar, which was attended by over 120 journalists,...
Driving Change Through Storytelling: Highlights from the Africa Health Communications Conference
In late June 2025, fraycollege hosted its inaugural Africa Health Communications Fellowship conference, bringing together leading voices in journalism, public health, and communications from across the continent. Designed to elevate the role of...
Storytelling Tools for African Communicators
fraycollege has collaborated with various partners to create valuable and insightful resources for African communicators and journalists. Collaborating with organisations such as Africa No Filter, UNAIDS, Bloomberg, ILO, and C40, these resources...
Africa Health Communications Fellowship kicks off with inspiring call to action from African thought leader
A bold new initiative to transform health communication across Africa officially began last week, as the first cohort of the Africa Health Communications Fellowship (AHCF) came together for their inaugural community session and public lecture. This...
fraycollege, UNAIDS and SANAC launch new handbook on reporting on HIV in Eastern & Southern Africa
fraycollege, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) recently hosted a webinar to launch a new handbook with guidelines for journalists reporting on HIV in Eastern and Southern...
February 2025: Starting The Year On A High Note
Dear friends and partners, 2025 is in full swing, and we’re excited about the opportunities ahead as we continue working together to tell our stories with greater impact. In this newsletter, we share a glimpse of what’s been happening at...
fraycollege Launches Africa-Wide Health Communications Fellowship
fraycollege of Communications is excited to launch the fellowship project, aimed at improving the quality of health communications on the continent. The Africa Health Communications Fellowship will bring together journalists and researchers from 6...
fraycollege Partners with AIP for Marketing and Sales Training for Independent Publishers in SA
fraycollege partnered with the Association of Independent Publishers to provide training to publishers marketing and sales training for their platforms. The training was conducted online over two weeks in February and gave publishers foundational...
Five Tips for Community Media in Africa to Communicate Effectively on Climate Change
It is estimated that 60%-70% of Africans listen to radio, making it the medium with the widest reach on the continent. This reach makes radio an invaluable tool for development and the dissemination of important news. Community radio stations, in...
2024 in Review: Celebrating Progress, Empowering Change, and Looking Ahead
Dear partners and friends of fraycollege,As we close out 2024, I reflect with immense pride and gratitude on the extraordinary milestones we’ve achieved together. fraycollege is a pan-African feminist training organisation that advocates for social...
EntreprenHER winner takes home cash prize to help build her newsroom
Pictured: Nomthandazo Shai, winner of the EntreprenHER grant. Nomthandazo Shai, publisher of Straightline News in Mpumalanga, has been awarded the inaugural R50,000 EntreprenHER grant to help build her newsroom as the winner of the EntreprenHER...
Five ways your organisation can reach its gender equity goals
Image courtesy of Canva. Gender equity in organisations is not just a "nice-to-have" or a moral obligation; it is a strategic imperative that benefits organisations, employees, and society as a whole. By prioritising gender equity, organisations...
Media Opportunities, Fellowships, and Jobs
Advance your media career with these top fellowships, grants, and awards for journalists, photographers, and media professionals. Apply soon! Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) Mentorship ProgrammeTRF offers a six-month mentorship program supporting...
Top Journalism and Media Opportunities You Don’t Want to Miss
Advance your media career with these top fellowships, grants, and awards for journalists, photographers, and communications and media professionals. Apply soon! Investigative Business Journalism FellowshipThis fellowship by the Donald W. Reynolds...
Exciting Job Opportunities for Journalists and Communicators
Looking to take the next step in your journalism or communications career? From global fellowships and grants to impactful roles in media and strategic communications, this list features top opportunities with deadlines approaching soon. Explore...
Leadership Development training to leaders in ever changing landscapes
The media and communications landscape is changing rapidly. These changes bring complex challenges that demand not just strong decision-making but also the ability to inspire and motivate teams. Leadership development is not a nice-to-have, it’s an...
Career Opportunities and Calls for Proposals- 18October 2024
Looking for your next big opportunity in journalism, communications, or digital media? We’ve compiled a list of exciting job openings, fellowship programs, and calls for proposals that could be your perfect match. From contributing to global...
Alumni
Slindile Khanyile
Khanyile is the editor and co-founder of Umbele, an isiZulu online business publication. She says a few months after attending the course, she was appointed editor of Isolezwe newspaper, the flagship isiZulu publication of Independent Media. She has also worn the hats of a financial journalist and sportswriter.
Brenda Leonard
Brenda Leonard, alumna of the FP&M Seta-funded fraycollege of Communications Media Management Programme said that the programme not only enhanced her career, but also equipped her to deal with crises in a more professional manner.
Nwabisa Makunga
fraycollege alumnus Nwabisa Makunga is the editor of Sowetan newspaper, a position she stepped into as the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic were starting to be felt in South Africa. Nwabisa is no stranger to working under immense pressure, but nothing could prepare her for sitting at the helm of one of South Africa’s largest newspapers amid a global health crisis.
Slindile Khanyile
Media diversification is the name of the game for fraycollege alumnus Slindile Khanyile. In September 2020 Khanyile and her partner Langa Khanyile launched Umbele, a Zulu business portal with all the latest news on economics, labour, personal finance, and agriculture.
Veneranda Langa
By Jamaine Krige Zimbabwean journalist Veneranda Langa is passionate about parliamentary reporting. Langa came first at the Zimbabwe Journalism awards on the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance for her story “Zim missed ACDEG...
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