HISTORY

MISSION STATEMENT
"The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is a dynamic, member-driven network of national chapters coordinated by a professional regional secretariat which seeks - through monitoring, training, capacity building, research and the distribution of information - to foster free, independent and diverse media throughout southern Africa in the service of democracy and development as stated in the Windhoek Declaration and the African Charter on Broadcasting."

MISA is a non-governmental organisation with members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. MISA-South Africa is one of these 11 chapters.

Officially launched in September 1992, MISA focuses primarily on the need to promote free, independent and pluralistic media, as envisaged in the 1991 Windhoek Declaration.

MISA seeks ways in which to promote the free flow of information and co-operation between media workers, as a principal means of nurturing democracy and human rights in Africa. The role of the MISA is primarily one of a coordinator, facilitator and communicator, and for this reason MISA aims to work together with all like-minded organisations and individuals to achieve a genuinely free and pluralistic media in southern Africa.

Information manual of the South African chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa [MISA-SA]:

Promotion of Access to Information Act, No. 2 of 2000 (PDF)