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For many years Nationalist attempts to muzzle the press were aimed at the English-language opposition newspapers. And it was those papers that virtually single handedly tried to fight off further restrictions. More recently, however, the country’s Afrikaans newspapers, once completely subservient to the ruling Nationalist party, have become dynamic political institutions in their own right.
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Willem Wepener, “The Role of the Afrikaans Press,” in Survival of the Press (Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1979).
Johande Villiers, “South African Community and Its Newspapers: A Socio-Historical Study,” Ph.D. diss., University of the Orange Free State, 1976.
Schalk Pienaar, “Afrikaners en hul Koerante: Vriendskap in Spanning,” Die Burger, September 15, 1973.
Ebbe Dommisse, “The Changing Role of the Afrikaans Press,” in Edwin S. Munger, ed. The Afrikaners (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1979), p. 101.
Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomee, Ethnic Power Mobilized: Can South Africa Change (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979).
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Hachten, W.A., Giffard, C.A., Hachten, H. (1984). The Afrikaans Press: Freedom within Commitment. In: Hachten, H. (eds) The Press and Apartheid. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07685-7_8
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