The Sol Plaatjie Institute (SPI) for Media Leadership is Africa's pioneering media management school. Established in 2002, the SPI is the only university-level institute in Africa offering professional media management and leadership training programmes and the honours-level Post-Graduate Diploma in Media Management (PDMM). Our The training programmes of the SPI uniquely combine cutting-edge theory and practice and are led by media industry experts and academics, who seek to provide course participants with knowledge and skills of how to lead sustainable media organisations in rapidly changing conditions typified by Africa’s socio-economic and political landscape. Since it's establishment, the SPI has trained more than 6000 senior executives from across Africa through its short-term professional media management courses which cater to lead from the print, broadcast, converged and online media.