Author: Alex Hepple
Title: Press Under Apartheid
Description: London: International Defence and Aid Fund, 1974. Paper bound in stapled, illustrated wrappers, Pp66. Includes appendices. A tight, unmarked, very good or better copy. 100 grams - ships letter mail. Deals with numerous laws invoked by the South African racist regime which restrained and controlled the press, including the Publications and Entertainment Act (No. 26 of 1963); The Customs and Excise Act (No. 91 of 1964); Suppression of Communism Act (No. 44 of 1950, as amended); Riotous Assemblies Act (No. 17 of 1956); Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act (No. 56 of 1955); Public Safety Act (No. 3 of 1953); Criminal Law Amendment Act (No. 8 of 1953); Prisons Act (No. 8 of 1959); Bantu Administration Act (No. 38 of 1927); Defence Amendment Act (No. 85 of 1967); Official Secrets Act (No. 16 of 1956 and the Boss Law (No. 101 of 1969); Post Office Act (No. 44 of 1958); Newspaper and Imprint Registration Act (No. 63 of 1971); Indecent of Obscene Photographic Matter Act (No. 37 of 1967); and the Extension of University Education Act (No. 45 of 1959). Includes a historical section on the long war against the press; distributors as censors; police and the press; the press owners; and the role of the press in the apartheid society.

Keywords: Media/Journalism Journalism


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