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Title: | Other Voices: The Ambiguities of Resistance in South Africa's Resistance Press |
Authors: | Switzer, Les Jones, Elizabeth Ceiriog |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 32 |
Pages: | 66-113 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | media history political action History and Exploration Literature, Mass Media and the Press Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582479508671826 |
Abstract: | South Africa's resistance press mirrored and mediated realities that differed substantially from those projected by the established white commercial press. This article interrogates the ambiguities of resistance in South Africa's resistance press before the apartheid era by examining six newspapers published between 1919 and 1952. These were formative decades in developing a discourse of resistance in the resistance press. Section 1 profiles four African nationalist newspapers and their editors: 'Imvo Zabantsundu' ('Native Opinion'), launched in 1884 in King William's Town by John Tengo Jabavu; 'Workers' Herald', launched in 1919 in Cape Town by Clements Kadalie; 'Bantu World', launched in 1932; and 'Inkundla ya Bantu' ('Bantu Forum'), launched in 1938. Section 2 profiles two socialist newspapers and their editors: 'Inkululeko' ('Freedom'), launched in 1940 in Johannesburg by the Communist Party of South Africa, and the 'Guardian', launched in 1937 in Cape Town. Section 3 offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the South African resistance press to highlight the role it played in charting a new discourse of resistance during the 1940s and 1950s. App. (a content analysis of the six newspapers), notes, ref. |