Abstract
Underlying the continuing controversy over the Press Council has been one persistent policy of the Nationalists: to bend the English press to its will, to find a way to make it conform to the concerns, and even the world view, of the ruling Afrikaners. Nationalist prime ministers from Malan to Vorster have sought to “discipline” the pesky opposition newspapers into being “responsible.”
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Allister Sparks, “South Africa Relents on Press Curbs,” Washington Post, July I, 1982, p. A20.
Les Switzer, “Steyn Commission I: The Press and Total Strategy,” Paper, Rhodes University, 1980, p. 6.
William Hachten, World News Prism (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1981), p. 14.
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Hachten, W.A., Giffard, C.A., Hachten, H. (1984). The Steyn Commission and Three Concepts of the Press. In: Hachten, H. (eds) The Press and Apartheid. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07685-7_4
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