Apartheid

7 results arranged by date

AFP

SABC keeps lid on ‘Project Spear’ documentary

The South African Broadcasting Corporation is in the news for not airing a politically sensitive documentary that details allegations of apartheid-era theft of public funds. The public broadcaster, which had commissioned the film, has also refused to sell the rights back to the filmmaker and has filed a lawsuit demanding she turn over her raw…

Read More ›

Henry Nxumalo in 1953. (Jurgen Schadeberg)

Remembering Henry Nxumalo, pioneer under apartheid

Just over 55 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1957, trailblazing South African journalist Henry Nxumalo was murdered while investigating suspicious deaths at an abortion clinic in Sophiatown, a suburb west of Johannesburg.

Read More ›

Reuters and The Associated Press are being investigated by authorities in South Africa for installing cameras pointed at Nelson Mandela's house, seen here. (AFP)

Criminal probe targets AP, Reuters cameras on Mandela

New York, December 16, 2011–South African authorities announced on Thursday the launch of a criminal probe against international news agencies The Associated Press and Reuters for installing cameras outside the home of anti-Apartheid figure Nelson Mandela, according to news reports.

Read More ›

Motlanthe at NYU. (CPJ/Mohamed Keita)

At NYU, South Africa’s Motlanthe defends press policies

On Monday, in a public lecture at New York University, South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe described as irreversible the democratic gains made since the end of apartheid, including the advancement of press freedom. “We have a constitution which guarantees basic human rights such as freedom of association, freedom of the press, and the independent…

Read More ›

Protesters taped their mouths shut to oppose the Protection of Information Bill. (Imke van Heerden)

South Africans end week of “secrecy bill” protests

On Wednesday, just before South African lawmakers were scheduled to debate amendments to the controversial Protection of Information Bill, thousands of protesters marched to the gates of Parliament in Cape Town to oppose the measure, which they called an “apartheid-style secrecy bill.” The marchers represented a broad coalition of media, academia, trade unions and civil…

Read More ›

South African journalists protest media restrictions on the nation's annual Day of Media Freedom. (Independent Newspapers Cape)

In South Africa, echoes of Black Wednesday

On October 19, 1977, South Africa’s government banned The World newspaper, along with Weekend World, the paper’s weekly magazine, and Pro Veritate, a Christian publication. Authorities also detained scores of activists and outlawed 17 anti-apartheid groups during the one-day crackdown, which came to be known as Black Wednesday.

Read More ›

The Right2Know campaign opposes the government's secrecy bill. (Ghalib Galant)

South Africans rally against ‘secrecy bill’

Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral, a rallying point for civil rights action during apartheid, was the site of the public launch on Tuesday of a mass campaign aimed at stopping a secrecy bill seen as a major threat to South Africans’ hard-won freedom.

Read More ›