The Indian Views
The Indian Views was a newspaper for readers of Indian origin in South Africa . Their main target group included the Gujarati- speaking Muslim families from the Natal trade sector . In her late years of publication she appeared as a mouthpiece for the entire Indian minority in South Africa. The Indian Views appeared bilingual, in Gujarati and in English .
history
The Indian Views was founded by Mohamed Cassim Angalia in 1914 in Durban . In the 1920s, Ebrahim Jeewa's family from Durban bought the newspaper publisher. As a result of the change of ownership, Hajee Ebrahim Amod Jeewa took over its management. When Moosa Ismail Meer entered the editorial service in 1927 (according to other sources as early as 1926) , a new period began for the newspaper, during which it stepped out of the previously regional sphere of activity. He became the owner of the newspaper publisher in 1934 and shaped her profile as an editor and publisher until 1963. During this time she gained notoriety all over South Africa. His eldest son Ismail Moosa Meer continued the newspaper as editor-in-chief, but had to stop it in 1972.
The coverage of the weekly paper dealt with the predominance of British imperialism before apartheid and referred to anti-colonial positions and pan-Islamic perspectives. Until the middle of the 20th century, the newspaper mainly represented conservative and anti-left positions from among the predominantly wealthy class of business people of Indian origin. According to Raja Maharaj Singh , a former representative of the Indian government in the South African Union , the Indian Views held a leading position among the newspapers of the Indian population in South Africa as early as the 1930s.
Between 1956 and 1963, at the invitation of Moosa Meer , the Muslim suffragette Zuleikha Mayat from Potchefstroom wrote a weekly column entitled Fahmida's World . In it she commented on questions of gender roles in the society of the country at that time. In this way, she contributed to a broader understanding of the mutual relationship between family and public concerns in the Indian diaspora of South Africa. With increasing journalistic authority, she initially opened up space for women to talk about politics, social values and the identity of their minority group. The political climate in the second half of the 1950s included a variety of repression measures by the South African government to restrict the freedom of movement of the Indian population between the individual provinces through official approval procedures and in some cases even to prevent them from returning after stays abroad. There was a separation of families, imprisonment and deportation . According to the 1946 census, only 10.4 percent of the Asian population were born outside the Union of South Africa.
Proven holdings
Several volumes of the Indian Views are archived in South African institutions :
- 1914–1926 Natal Archives , Pietermaritzburg ,
- 1914–1943 Documentation Center , University of KwaZulu-Natal (Repos. University of Durban-Westville ) here microfilm,
- 1937–1952 Durban Reference Library , Durban,
- 1952–1962 Natal Society Library , Pietermaritzburg.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ ULWAZI: Indian Newspapers in KwaZulu-Natal - 150 years of Indian Journalism . at www.ulwazi.org (English)
- ↑ a b Liberation history. Timeline 1910–1919 . on www.sahistory.org.za (English)
- ↑ Dhanee Bramdaw et al: The South African Indian Who's Who and Commercial Directory, 1936-37 . Pietermaritzburg 1936, p. 98. on www.scnc.ukzn.ac.za (English)
- ↑ a b 1914 Publication of The Indian Views . In: South African History Online. on www.sahistory.org.za (English)
- ^ Professor Fatima Meer . on www.sahistory.org.za (English)
- ↑ AJ Friedgut: The Non-European Press. In: Ellen Hellmann, Leah Abrahams (Ed.): Handbook on Race Relations in South Africa . Oxford University Press, Cape Town / London / New York 1949, p. 506.
- ^ Ismail Moosa Sea. Publisher & Journalist - Indian Views. 1972 . on: www.scnc.ukzn.ac.za (English)
- ↑ Thembisa Waetjen, Goolam Vahed: The Diaspora at Home: Indian Views and the Making of Zuleikha Mayat's Public Voice. In: Africa. The Journal of the International African Institute. Vol. 81, 2011, pp. 23-41. ( Abstract ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. At www.muse.jhu.edu) (English)
- ↑ Goolam Vahed, Thembisa Waetje: gender, modernity & Indian delights. The Women's Cultural Group of Durban, 1954-2010 . Cape Town 2010, ISBN 978-0-7969-2336-3 , p. 18. (Full text, PDF at www.hsrcpress.ac.za) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) ( Description ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. on: hsrcpress.ac. za)
- ^ SAIRR : A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1956–1957 . Johannesburg [1958], p. 51.
- ^ SAIRR: A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1957-1958 . Johannesburg [1959], pp. 40-41.
