Samira Ahmed won the Stonewall award for broadcast of the year last night, for her report from South Africa on “corrective rape” following the murder of female football star Eudy Simelane.
She described her experience of making the award-winning report on the World News Blog earlier this year.
Also shortlisted for the award were Channel 4’s Find me a Family, and Economy Gastronomy (BBC 2), FYI Radio (lesbian and gay youth radio station) and Pobol y Cwm (BBC Cymru).
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Congratulations to Samira Ahmed for winning this award.
As mentioned in the report “South Africa” is a relatively new democracy and it will take some time for the entrenched ideas and beliefs of its people to change. The idea behind the “corrective rape” issue in South Africa is a stereotypical thinking of some men about women and the role of sex in that society.
Yes – CONGRATULATIONS, Samira!
I am so glad this recognition has come to her – long overdue, IMO.
This household has long held the wish that CH4 News would allow Samira to interview/take to task more of its studio visitors.
Along with JS, she shows a rigour and determination to ask the difficult questions (the ones we are all asking at home) and, as importantly, not to allow the interviewee off the hook when he/she attempts a fob-off.
She demonstrates a knowledge of the problem not just at surface level but is always sufficiently informed to tackle detail and consequence etc.
Please convey our warmest congratulations for Samira’s sterling work for CH4.
Congratulations to Samira and to Channel 4 News – the best news programme on TV. You always ask the difficult questions that other programmes seem to gloss over.
I too would like to congratulate Samira, and not just for the award. Her robust interviewing technique and refusal to be fobbed off encourages optimism about the future. Ch4 presents the best news programme around. This and its ‘Unreported World’ series are the reasons I continue to hold a TV licence.
I would congratulate Samira and wish her future career luck.
The subject matter is a disgrace to South Africa.It used to be a beautiful country when i spent a year there in the early sixties.The disgraceful system of apartheid was in being,but as in many places where there was a dictatorship(for that is what apartheid was) there was much better lawfulness as opposed afterwards when they were opened up .Look at Yugoslavia,Iraq and Rhodesia ,plus to a degree Russia
Well done Samira, it is an atrocitie that needs addressing again and again. Such a highly emotive issue for women in a patriarchal world.
Rape is still a widespread problem.. Congratulations for the award and for handling it.
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