Author: Meurant, L.H.
Title: Sixty Years Ago. Or, Reminiscences of the Struggle for the Freedom of the Press in South Africa . . .
Description: Africana Connisseurs Press Cape Town 1963. Facsimile reproduction of the 1885 Saul Solomon Cape Town edition. Maroon skivertex, 107pp + 5pp index 8vo. 0.35kg Ex school library, unused date sheet tipped to ffep, several stamps and an annotation to the title page, 4 square corners, a very sound and clean copy that I would otherwise rate as VG+, unused. Copy No. 504 of 510 numbered copies. "... And The Establishment Of The First Newspaper In The Eastern Province". Deals in the main with establishment of the free press in South Africa, particularly with The Grahams Town Journal. Author had much original documentation and personal interest in this matter.

Keywords: eastern cape south southern africa african newspapers journalism cape colony


See more books from our catalog: Cape Colony