COMMENT
Oct 25, 2020
2 minutes
ON OCTOBER 19, 1977, the South African press experienced its version of Kristallnacht when apartheid minister of justice Jimmy Kruger unleashed a violent Pogrom, arresting several black editors, journalists and activists, and banning a spate of publications and organisations.
It came in the aftermath of the 1976 Soweto riots and a month after
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