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An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers
Dissertation ( MA)- University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/78654 An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers Ohlhoff, Heinrich (Carl Heinrich Friedrich) Tshegokabo@gmail.com Modubu, Tshegofatso UCTD Media studies Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality Dissertation ( MA)- University of Pretoria, 2021. Feminist media studies theory and intersectionality were used to determine if South African national English daily, weekly and weekend newspapers perpetuated stereotypes when reporting about Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille, both of whom were female political candidates during the 2009 national election. The study explores the nexus between media, gender, race and class representation and political election campaign reporting. In particular, it seeks to find out if the different gender, race and class of two female candidates influenced national newspaper reporters; in either reporting negatively or positively about them as candidates during the elections. Content analysis and critical discourse analysis were used as method to analyse the data collected from newspaper articles. The content analysis findings showed that Zille compared to De Lille received significant coverage and most headlines were referring to her. The findings of the critical discourse analysis indicate that language was sometimes used to perpetuate stereotypes through the use of tone, choice of language in headings, metaphors; puns, oxymorons as well as insinuations. The hypotheses was that the race of the candidates would feature prominently in the findings however there was very little about the race of the candidates. The analysis revealed that there was a focus on the race and class of the audiences and voters addressed by Zille and De Lille during their campaign period. Keywords: Feminist media theory, race, media, gender, elections, Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille. mz2026 Afrikaans MA Unrestricted SDG-05: Gender equality 2021-02-15T14:16:15Z 2021-02-15T14:16:15Z 2021-04 2021-02-15 Dissertation Modubu, T 2021, An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78654> A2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78654 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Media studies Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers |
| title | An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers |
| title_full | An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers |
| title_fullStr | An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers |
| title_full_unstemmed | An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers |
| title_short | An analysis of the coverage of Helen Zille and Patricia De Lille prior to, during and after South Africa's national elections by South African English newspapers |
| title_sort | analysis of the coverage of helen zille and patricia de lille prior to during and after south africa s national elections by south african english newspapers |
| topic | UCTD Media studies Humanities theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78654 |