South Africa's Alternative Press Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880}}}1960 [Paperback]

Collection of essays on the South African alternative press from the 1880s to the 1960s.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.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.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 modernising, 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. An important venue for an emerging black literary tradition, these alternative presses also constitute a unique political and social archive.Introduction: South Africa's alternative press in perspective Les Switzer; Part I. An Independent Protest Press, 1880s1930s: 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 mobilisation: Indian opinion, 19031914 Uma Shaskikant Mesthrie; 4. Voice of the coloured ?lite: APO, 19191923 Mohamed Adhikl��