New Nation (South Africa)

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New Nation (roughly: "New Nation") was a South African national weekly newspaper. It appeared in English , was aimed primarily at black people and was against apartheid . New Nation was released from 1985 to 1997.

history

The newspaper was published by the Catholics Bishops Publishing Company in Johannesburg , which was founded by the South African Catholic Bishops Conference . The first editor-in-chief was Zwelakhe Sisulu (1950–2012), a son of the opposition politicians Walter and Albertina Sisulu . In 1988 an edition cost 50 cents . It had 24 pages in tabloid format and contained the four-page supplement Learning Nation, in which learning material from various areas was conveyed. The circulation in 1988 was around 35,000.

Sisulu was first detained without charge for about three weeks in June 1986 for serving with New Nation . He was again held without charge on December 12, 1986 and was not released until December 2, 1988. In 1987, he received the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from the US Nieman Foundation . A condition for Sisulu's release from prison in 1988 was that he could no longer work as editor-in-chief.

The censorship authorities threatened to ban the newspaper several times . In March 1988, New Nation was banned for three months without justification after a newly created state of emergency provision . Most South African editors-in-chief criticized this restriction on press freedom .

The last edition of the New Nation appeared in May 1997.

aftermath

Sisulu became press secretary and personal assistant to the released ANC politician Nelson Mandela in 1990 . From 1994 to 1997 he headed the South African Broadcasting Corporation .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Report on the awarding of the award to Sisulu ( Memento of January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on January 4, 2014
  2. ^ African National Congress of South Africa (June 3, 1997): "South Africa: ANC Marks the Last Edition Of New Nation". AllAfrica.
  3. ↑ Report of the New York Times (English), accessed on January 4, 2014
  4. ↑ AP News Archive , accessed January 4, 2014
  5. ↑ Biography Sisulus (English), accessed on January 4, 2014