MDDA - Media Development and Diversity Agency

The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) is a statutory development agency for promoting and ensuring media development and diversity.
It is a partnership between the South African Government and major print and broadcasting companies to assist in, amongst others, developing community and small commercial media in South Africa.
It was established in 2003, in terms of the MDDA Act No. 14 of 2002 and started providing grant funding to projects on 29 January 2004.

Our Target Audiences
• Historically disadvantaged communities;
• Historically diminished language and cultural groups; and

• Inadequately served communities.