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Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
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Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)

Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), xv, 320 pp.

"Radio has been called ‘Africa’s medium’. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors, including the liberalisation policies of the ‘third wave’ of democracy and its ability to transcend the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low l ... more

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Liberation and the Media: The Development of the South African Daily Newspaper Market Since the End of Apartheid

Tobias Bauer

Norderstedt: Books on Demand (2007), 192 pp.

"Liberation and the Media takes a look at the development of the South African daily newspaper market since the end of apartheid. It covers the country's most important political, social and economical developments since 1990 and explains correlations between South Africa's general development and i ... more

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation;HSRC Press;James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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The South African Print Media: From Apartheid to Transformation

Hilton Robert Kolbe

Wollongong (AU): University of Wollongong, Doctoral Thesis (2005), 293 pp.

"This thesis considers the role of the mainstream South African print media in perpetuating discrimination during the years of legalised racial discrimination – commonly known as apartheid – from when the Herenigde Nationale Party took power in May 1948 with an unprecedented 28-seat swing under ... more

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Focus on African Films

Francoise Pfaff (ed.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2004), ix, 327 pp.

"Emphasizing post-independent films released since the 1950s and the burgeoning commercial film production of the last decade, Focus on African Films provides unique and pluralistic perspectives on filmmaking throughout Africa. As a whole, the collection highlights the distinct thematic, stylistic, ... more

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L'Afrique? Quel cinéma! Un siècle de propagande coloniale et de films africains

Guido Convents

Anvers: EPO;Africalia (2003), 367 pp.

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The Alternative Press in South Africa

Keyan Tomaselli, P. Eric Louw (eds.)

Denver: International Academic Publishers (2001), 236 pp.

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Media, Democracy and Renewal in Southern Africa

Keyan Tomaselli, Hopeton Dunn (eds.)

Colorado Springs: International Academic Publishers (2001), 309 pp.

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Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa

Robert B. Horwitz

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2001), 409 pp.

"The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency and the print press from apartheid-al ... more

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South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation Under Apartheid

Les Switzer, Mohamed Adhikari (eds.)

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies (2000), 505 pp.

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Die Bedeutung der Presse im Transitprozess Südafrikas

Petra Märlender

Hamburg: Institut für Afrikakunde (2000), xxii, 131 pp.

"Seit Anfang der 90er Jahre hat die Presse Südafrikas weitreichende Veränderungen durchgemacht. Thema des Buches ist, inwieweit die südafrikanische Presse an der Entwicklung zu einem demokratischen Wandel beteiligt war. Die Studie präsentiert ein Raster für die empirische Untersuchung der Press ... more

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South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960

Les Switzer (ed.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997), xv, 400 pp.

"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 th ... more

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The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film

Keyan Tomaselli

New York: Smyrna Press (1988), 300 pp.

"This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities, addressing all aspects of the industry, focusing on domestic production, but also discussing int ... more

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Narrating the Crisis: Hegemony and the South African Press

Keyan Tomaselli, Ruth Tomaselli, Johan Muller (eds.)

Johannesburg: Richard Lyon & Co. (1987), 258 pp.

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Media and Dependency in South Africa: A Case Study of the Press and the Ciskei "Homeland"

Les Switzer

Columbus: Ohio State University, Monographs in International Studies (1985), 72 pp.

"The Ciskei "Homeland" has long been a center of African nationalism and of conflict between whites and blacks. Switzer's examination of the press in this area also shows on a larger national scale, how the South African privately owned commercial press promotes dependency of blacks upon whites by p ... more

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The Press and Apartheid: Repression and Propaganda in South Africa

William A. Hachten, C. Anthony Giffard

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (1984), 336 pp.

"This is a study both of measures taken by the South African government to control its mass media and of the efforts of its journalists and others to express their views and resist those restreints," (introduction). The authors examine the conflict between government and press in a social, economic, ... more

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South Africa: The Press and the Politics of Liberation

Chenhamo C. Chimutengwende

London: Carleton House (1978), 197 pp.

"An analysis of the mass media in South Africa as instruments of oppression or liberation and their role in effecting change or perpetuating the status quo. Chimutengwende examines the operation of the press within the South African socio-economic and legislative system and in relation to the blacks ... more

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