Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate
eventREF E-0148961Verified

Event record

Salman Rushdie's visit is still on

Salman Rushdie's visit is still on

Updated
22 Aug 2019
Salman Rushdie's visit is still on

Despite an increasing outcry against Salman Rushdie's public lecture from the Islamic Council of Southern Africa, the Weekly Mail (now Mail and Guardian) announces that the public lecture will go ahead. The Weekly Mail invited him to give a public lecture on censorship. Many Islamic governments and other governments such as India and South Africa censored his book Satanic Versus. Many Islamic groups, including South African Muslims, accused Rushdie for committing blasphemy against Islam. As a result, his invitation to South Africa by the Weekly Mail was considered to be insensitive to the feelings of Muslims in the country.

Search events by date

What happened on your birthday?
View more events from this day
Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2019, August 22). Salman Rushdie's visit is still on. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0148961

South African History Online (2019) 'Salman Rushdie's visit is still on', South African History Online, 22 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0148961 (Accessed: 10 September 2026).

South African History Online, Salman Rushdie's visit is still on [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0148961, (accessed 10 September 2026).

"Salman Rushdie's visit is still on." South African History Online, 22 Aug. 2019, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0148961. Accessed 10 Sept. 2026.

South African History Online. "Salman Rushdie's visit is still on." South African History Online. August 22, 2019. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0148961.

Further reading

SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →

Contribute to this record0 comments

Comments are reader contributions. They are not part of the archival record.