South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997), xv, 400 pp.
Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communications
ISBN 0-521-55351-2
Reviewed in: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Spring 1998, pp. 224-225
"This is the first full-length study of the protest-cum-resistance press and its role in the struggle for a democratic South Africa between the 1880s and 1960s. South Africa's alternative press played a crucial, but still largely undocumented, role in the making of modern South Africa. Projecting the point of view of intermediary social groups, who saw themselves as a modernizing, upwardly mobile non-ethnic force in the struggle to create a black middle-class culture in South Africa, these presses mirrored political realities that differed substantially from those projected by South Africa's established commercial press, which was owned and controlled by whites, and concerned almost exclusively with the political, economic, and social life of the white population." (Publisher description)
Introduction: South Africa's Alternative Press in Perspective / Les Switzer
I. AN INDEPENDENT PROTEST PRESS, 1880s-1930s
1 The Beginnings of African Protest Journalism at the Cape / Les Switzer
2 "Qude maniki!" John L. Dube, Pioneer Editor of Ilanga Lase Natal / R. Hunt Davis, Jr.
3 From Advocacy to Mobilization: Indian Opinion, 1903-1914 / Uma Shashikant Mesthrie
4 Voice of the Coloured Elite: APO, 1909-1923 / Mohamed Adhikari
5 Moderate and Militant Voices in the African Nationalist Pressduring the 1920s / Les Switzer
6 Bantu World and the Origins of a Captive African Commercial Press / Les Switzer
II. FROM PROTEST TO RESISTANCE, 1940S-1960S
7 Under Siege: Inkundla ya Bantu and the African Nationalist Movement, 1938-1951 / Les Switzer and Ime Ukpanah
8 The Sophiatown Generation: Black Literary Journalism during the 1950s / R. Neville Choonoo
9 Socialism and the Resistance Movement: The Life and Timesof the Guardian, 1937-1952 / Les Switzer
10 Writing Left: The Journalism of Ruth First and the Guardian in the 1950s / Don Pinnock
11 Inkululeko: Organ of the Communist Party of South Africa, 1939-1950 / Elizabeth Ceiriog Jones
Appendix: A Content Analysis of Six Newspapers in a Time Series (1919-1952)
I. AN INDEPENDENT PROTEST PRESS, 1880s-1930s
1 The Beginnings of African Protest Journalism at the Cape / Les Switzer
2 "Qude maniki!" John L. Dube, Pioneer Editor of Ilanga Lase Natal / R. Hunt Davis, Jr.
3 From Advocacy to Mobilization: Indian Opinion, 1903-1914 / Uma Shashikant Mesthrie
4 Voice of the Coloured Elite: APO, 1909-1923 / Mohamed Adhikari
5 Moderate and Militant Voices in the African Nationalist Pressduring the 1920s / Les Switzer
6 Bantu World and the Origins of a Captive African Commercial Press / Les Switzer
II. FROM PROTEST TO RESISTANCE, 1940S-1960S
7 Under Siege: Inkundla ya Bantu and the African Nationalist Movement, 1938-1951 / Les Switzer and Ime Ukpanah
8 The Sophiatown Generation: Black Literary Journalism during the 1950s / R. Neville Choonoo
9 Socialism and the Resistance Movement: The Life and Timesof the Guardian, 1937-1952 / Les Switzer
10 Writing Left: The Journalism of Ruth First and the Guardian in the 1950s / Don Pinnock
11 Inkululeko: Organ of the Communist Party of South Africa, 1939-1950 / Elizabeth Ceiriog Jones
Appendix: A Content Analysis of Six Newspapers in a Time Series (1919-1952)
