“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…