Censorship under the Publications Acts

William A. Hachten, C. Anthony Giffard and Harva Hachten

Chapter 7 in The Press and Apartheid, 1984, pp 155-177 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The censorship of literature, films, and various forms of creative expression has long been an integral part of the maintenance first of white domination and then apartheid and of the failing attempt to promulgate the morality of the Afrikaner brand of Christianity. Novelist Nadine Gordimer has written: “We shall not be rid of censorship until we are rid of apartheid. Censorship is the arm of mind control and as necessary to maintain a racist regime as that other arm of internal repression, the secret police.”1 A student of censorship, Dorothy Driver, writes: “Censorship in South Africa is part of apartheid; it is an authoritarian strategy that imposes on the public an ideology that is Calvinist, capitalist, racist and increasingly militaristic.”2 According to South Africa’s best-known Afrikaans writer, André Brink, “the history of censorship in South Africa upholds the belief that it is primarily a political weapon.”3

Keywords: Motion Picture; Student Newspaper; Political Ground; Police Brutality; Black Nationalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07685-7_7

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