Molefe MW

Department of Communication Science, University of Zululand, Richards Bay, South Africa

Publications

• Review Article   
  Using media to re-construct mythologies of power and global hierarchies during COVID-19
  Author(s): Molefe MW*
  
  If anything, COVID-19 has exposed the lust for power and colonial onslaught against Third World countries across the globe. While COVID-19 has had devastating effects across the globe, being one of the pandemics to imbue such high mortality rate on the human populace within the shortest period, it still presented an opportunity for the neoliberal inclines from the media to use public figures like queens, presidents, prime ministers to recreate mythical powers around vaccine jobs/injections for immunisation from COVID-19. The dominant global media and their remnants in the third world countries including South Africa (SA) were on a drive of injections or vaccine campaigns for purposes of profiteering multinational pharmaceuticals, through the mythical power associated with identified western leaders who were flighted across the world media taking vaccine jabs. Thus, dragging the unsusp.. View More»
  

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