Media’s capitalist bias risks losing its public trust
One-sided reporting on nationalisation shows that the South African people need an alternative source of their news and information, and also a stage for open debate
04 October 2020 - 00:00
Every October, SA’s media fraternity commemorates Black Wednesday. On October 19 1977, the racist apartheid regime shut down independent media in a desperate attempt to silence dissenting voices. Progressive journalists and editors, among them Zwelakhe Sisulu, Percy Qoboza, Joe Thloloe, Mathatha Tsedu and Aggrey Klaaste, were imprisoned. Qoboza’s paper, The World, was banned...
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