Newspapers

Date: 10 June, 1982

Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and Afrikaans, unanimously opposed the government's planned legislation to establish a media council, which would operate independently from the State.

Source:

1. Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.