Media Freedom Day … 43 years later
Oct 21, 2020
4 minutes
JANINE MOODLEY
ON OCTOBER 19, 1977, three press houses and 19 Black Consciousness organisations were banned by the apartheid government. This time is remembered as Media Freedom Day.
On Monday, Professor Saths Cooper, a liberation activist and former member of the Black People’s Convention (BPC, an umbrella organisation for the Black Consciousness Movement, BCM), shared his experience alongside other BPC leaders during an online dialogue.
Cooper said, though 43 years had passed, the country was still fractured and had a long way to go. He said the ban was an attempt to stop the uprising of the BCM.
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