LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

South African Weekly Mail closed for a month

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

2 Nov 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:01:44

Description

In South Africa, the authorities have closed down the influential liberal paper, the Weekly Mail, for a month. The Government’s used its emergency powers to ban the paper, but the move has enraged the anti apartheid movement. Nigel Wrench reports from South Africa, and talks to the editor, Anton Harber and Nadine Gordimer, author, about the ban.

Contributors

Nigel Wrench; Nadine Gordimer; Anton Harber

Keywords

Newspapers; South Africa; Apartheid; Censorship; Freedom of the press; Anti-apartheid movements; Mass media; Weekly Mail

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