On behalf of the Prime Minister and the government, I should like to express to you personally and to your colleagues the sincere thanks of the government for your co-operation in the implementation of this agreement. I assume that the editors who signed the voluntary press censorship agreement will now agree that there is no further reason to continue with the agreement. Letter from the government to newspaper editors: "The Information Bureau has informed you that all military and navy censorship restrictions have, in view of the cessation of hostilities, been suspended. Magistrates Court Act 32 of 1944: limits publicity and access to the courts.7 The judge found for the Star saying that Verwoerd ".did support nazi propaganda, he did make his paper a tool of the nazis in South Africa, and he knew it."6 Verwoerd, editor of the National Party's militant mouthpiece the Transvaler, takes the Star to court for stating that the Transvaler falsified news "in its support of nazi propaganda". Riotous Assemblies Amendment Act 19 of 1930: tightened prohibitions on inciting racial hostility and prevented the press from attending or reporting on banned gatherings.3ĭouglas Walton, secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa, serves a three-month prison sentence in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act for articles in Umsebenzi alleging that Africans were experiencing brutal jail conditions in Natal.4Ī Conference of Editors in Pretoria agrees to the terms for a voluntary censorship agreement with the government regarding military and naval matters.5 This restricted what the media could report.2 Native Administration Act 38 of 1927: prohibited "fomenting hostility" between "Natives" and Europeans". He left the newspaper for full-time politics between the two world wars.1 They are written here as they were found in the wide range of sources we used, and I am aware that there are mistakes, and also mistakes of my own.ĭr Daniel Francois Malan is made editor of De Burger, the new party paper of the newly launched "Purified National Party". Please note, also, that I have not been able to verify the spellings of all the names mentioned (of people, places and publications). We also wanted to allow events to speak for themselves here, so there are no comments of our own, though we have included some from other people involved in the media at the time or currently.
Our aim has been to point to possible patterns in the relationship between the media and the government. The information in it has been gleaned from the research done for the other FXI papers. Please note that this chronology does not claim to document every significant event in the history of the South African media.
Post-Transition (1994 - 1999) - Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Submissions - FXI Chronology Of Some Pointers To The History Of The Media In South AfricaįXI submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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