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“Why journalism matters.  The challenges have changed, but has its core purpose?”

“Why journalism matters. The challenges have changed, but has its core purpose?”

PIPPA GREEN Pippa Green SOME four decades ago, the apartheid government closed down a major black daily, The World, and detained its editor, Percy Qoboza, as well as his deputy Aggrey Klaaste. Government bans the World – read one newspaper poster only slightly ironically That day, October 19th, 1977, became aptly known as “Black Wednesday”. A number of other black journalists were detained at the same time – among them Joe Thloloe, who is the former director of the Press Council. Thloloe was already in jail under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act – which allowed for indefinite detention. So…
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