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By: Augusta Baron, Faith Bentzel, and
Colleen Yancy
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• Apartheid: Afrikaans for “apartness; “social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by white minority governments in South Africa from 1948 to 1994”• Legalized under Population Registration Act of 1950. • Strict governmental restrictions on the press. • Constitution declared Democracy on May 8th, 1996•“The right to freedom the press and other media…”
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Libertarian/western press system
• inform and entertain
• free market system
• no governmental control
Challenges to the Free Press
• Government
• Media Ownership
Growth and Change
• 22 daily newspapers, 25 weekly
• Transition to more local and sensational
news
• 2202 to 2006 newspaper readership
increased by 43.18%
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• December 15, 1933 – August 19, 2001
• White South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
• Young editor of the East London Daily Dispatch
• Befriends Steve Biko, a leading Black activist, and is banned after attempts to publicize National Party as cause of Steve Biko’s death
• After five years under exile, flees to London to escape government oppression and threats to family
• Returns in mid-nineties to see the end of apartheid
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“Nothing nourishes democracy as much as a system of free media”
- Developments Magazine, 10/98
“White Knight of the anti-apartheid movement, Civil Rights legend”
• Most famous work is Biko, his biography of Stephen Biko’s life, arrest, and death
• Inspiration for 1987 film, Cry Freedom gives apartheid world-attention
• Banned: forbidden to write, forbidden to speak publicly, confined to home, prohibited from in being in presence of more than one person at a time, telephone calls screened, mail intercepted
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• South African photojournalist• Member of the Bang Bang Club• First to photograph “necklacing”• Won Pulizter Prize May 1994• Commited suicide July 1994
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Man shot dead in the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) area in Thokoza township.
Early 1990s, Thokoza, South Africa
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African National Congress (ANC) demonstration during the campaign for the 1994 general election. A young boy leads a local self-defense unit to Ivory Park.1994, South Africa