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Title:South Africa's Propaganda War
Author:Windrich, ElaineISNI
Year:1989
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:36
Issue:1
Period:1st Quarter
Pages:51-60
Language:English
Geographic terms:South Africa
United States
Subjects:propaganda
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4186533
Abstract:In spite of the Muldergate scandal of 1978, the Pretoria regime is still one of the largest spenders on overseas propaganda and one of the most extravagant and omnipresent of foreign lobbyists in Washington D.C. This article deals with South African propaganda in the USA. The main recipients of South African funds have been public relations agencies and legal firms which plead the South African case. South African agents have been active in election campaigns, in the organization of 'all-expenses-paid' trips to South Africa, and in buying up news media in the USA. Other recipients of South African funds for propaganda purposes were various think-tanks and research institutes, publicists of the new right and new right's religious fundamentalists. South African propaganda appears most frequently in the media of the business community, and in the mainstream media consumed by most of the population. Ref.
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