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South Africa: The Early Years of Apartheid South African Press Digests, 1949-1972

Collection: Reporting on Africa: From Apartheid to Pan-Africanism, 1949-1995    Volumes    South Africa: The Early Years of Apartheid South African Press Digests, 1949-1972
This weekly typed digest summarising all of South Africa's principal newspapers and magazines, seperated by year into documents, was issued by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies throughout the first 24 years of Apartheid. Recurring themes include increases in restrictions placed upon first the non-white, then the general population - Communism being a common charge for which activists were put under house arrest without trial. These digests also focus upon the party politics of the time with frequent updates on how the white-only electoral results are likely to be affected by parties' policies towards the non-white populations. Reports of civil disobedience are also common throughout these documents.
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Press Digest 1953

Civil disobedience continues and laws to prevent it are criticised for confering emergency powers upon the Government without any means for them to be held to account. Tensions between Indian...

Date:1953-1953
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Cc-05

Press Digest 1952

The core theme running through these records is a storm of civil disobedience and some rioting. Related article summaries include coverage of an appeal to the United Nations, commentary on...

Date:1952-1952
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Cc-04

Press Digest 1951

The debate over limitations on language teaching in South Africa continues here. Immigration gains increasing coverage in a year where the Government issues a call that 100,000 men are "Urgently...

Date:1951-1951
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Cc-03

Press Digest 1972

These reports cover a protest where coverage of police use of batons and violence reveals a force which is distrusted by some quarters of the population. Debate over what land...

Date:1972-1972
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Cc-24

Press Digest 1971

This was a year of reported contradictions, with the Government telling the 'World Court' that they would hold an all-races plebiscite to decide who should run South West Africa and...

Date:1971-1971
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Cc-23

Press Digest 1970

The minority white administration finds that there's a shortage of white employees since placing them in all of the senior roles in virtually every sphere leaves few left for waiting...

Date:1970-1970
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Cc-22

Press Digest 1969

As the political crisis in Rhodesia continues, the lack of a solution for where people who are neither white nor Bantu should live carries the Government's seperate development plan into...

Date:1969-1969
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Cc-21

Press Digest 1968

Censorship of the press emerges as a core issue when the South African Government decides to replace the existing press complaints board members with members they have appointed. As occaisons...

Date:1968-1968
Contributor:Kate Legum
Identifier:Cc-20
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