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Four black newspapers are banned by the SA government

Four newspapers banned

Date
23 Dec 1980
Updated
21 Dec 2020
Four newspapers banned

Four black newspapers, Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan, were banned, technically on the same day that the eight week strike of black journalists ends. Six days later, in the Rand Supreme Court, Justice Coetzee, refused to lift the banning order on the four aforementioned newspapers. In addition to that, the security police served the president and vice-president of the Black journalists' trade union Media Workers of South Africa with three-year banning orders. A storm of protest erupted, even from the strongly pro-government Afrikaans press.

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  1. 01O’Malley P. ‘1980’, from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialog, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org.za [Accessed: 24 October 2012]
  2. 02South African History Online, ‘Justice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers’, [online], available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 25 October 2012]

Last updated · 21 Dec 2020

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South African History Online. (2012, December 19). Four black newspapers are banned by the SA government. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094434

South African History Online (2012) 'Four black newspapers are banned by the SA government', South African History Online, 19 December. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094434 (Accessed: 7 August 2026).

South African History Online, Four black newspapers are banned by the SA government [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094434, (accessed 7 August 2026).

"Four black newspapers are banned by the SA government." South African History Online, 19 Dec. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094434. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Four black newspapers are banned by the SA government." South African History Online. December 19, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0094434.

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