South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960Les Switzer This book examines South Africa's alternative press, which has played a crucial but largely undocumented role in the making of modern South Africa. Mirroring political realities that differed substantially from those projected by the established, white-owned commercial presses, the alternative press had its origins in African mission journals from the 1860s and 1870s. By the 1880s, an independent African protest emerged. South Africa's Coloured and Indian communities were represented by their own protest publications from the early 1900s, while South Africa's expanding black urban working-class population communicated their concerns through various socialist publications in the first decades of the twentieth century. Only in the 1950s did a nonracial resistance press emerge. Representing South Africa's marginalized communities to themselves and to the outside world for more than a century, these newspapers, newsletters, journals, and magazines constitute a unique political, social, and literary archive - the oldest, most extensive and varied collection of indigenous publications this kind in sub-Saharan Africa. |
Contents
Map and Photographs | 4 |
Photographs | 44 |
John Tengo Jabavu founder and editor of Imvo Zabantsundu | 58 |
The Beginnings of African Protest Journalism at the Cape | 71 |
Qude maniki John L Dube Pioneer Editor | 83 |
John Langalibalele Dube founder and editor of Ilanga lase Natal | 86 |
Indian Opinion 19031914 | 99 |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi founder of Indian Opinion | 108 |
Henry Nxumalo Mr Drum of Drum magazine | 259 |
The Life and Times | 266 |
Betty Radford Sacks editor of the Guardian 193748 | 277 |
Harry Allimuthu H A Naidoo with his wife Pauline Podbrey | 280 |
A Defend the Guardian protest meeting | 282 |
Hawking the Guardian in 1940 | 283 |
Hawking New Age in the 1950s | 284 |
The final issue of Spark | 285 |
APO 19091923 | 127 |
Francis Zaccheus Santiago Peregrino founder and editor of | 129 |
Moderate and Militant Voices in the African Nationalist Press | 147 |
Alexander Macaulay Mac Jabavu editor of Imvo Zabantsundu | 153 |
Bantu World and the Origins of a Captive African | 189 |
Richard Victor Selope Thema editor of Bantu World 193252 | 193 |
Inkundla ya Bantu and the African Nationalist | 215 |
Govan Archibald Mvunyelina Mbeki political editor of Inkundla ya Bantu 193943 | 219 |
Jordan Kush Ngubane editor of Inkundla ya Bantu 194451 | 221 |
Black Literary Journalism | 252 |
The Journalism of Ruth First and the Guardian | 308 |
Ruth First Slovo in the 1950s | 311 |
Organ of the Communist Party of South | 331 |
Michael Diphuko editor of Inkululeko 194445 | 342 |
Front pages of Umsebenzi and of Inkululeko | 345 |
A subscription notice in Inkululeko | 347 |
Daniel Tloome Yusuf Dadoo and Moses Kotane | 351 |
Appendix A Content Analysis of Six Newspapers in a Time | 373 |
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