South Africa: Did Afrikaans journalists help end apartheid? · Global Voices
Ndesanjo Macha

Anton Harber discusses the role of the Afrikaans press during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa: “I was asked to comment on Afrikaans journalists’ role in the downfall of apartheid. Do those who pushed for change not get the credit they deserve, as some argue? Or were they just cohorts of the National Party?”