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The Role of the Independent Alternative Grassroots Media in South Africa: A Personal Perspective

Author(s)	Wessels, Elsabe
Abstract	The paper is an account of the author’s career as a militant and controversial journalist in South Africa. After taking a degree in journalism and working at a number of newspapers that were anti-apartheid in word, but not in action, ElsabÃƒÂ© Wessels joined in 1988 the small staff of Vrye Weekblad, which was the first ‘alternative’ Afrikaans newspaper. The author pays tribute to all the young independent newspapers in South Africa and argues that none of the mainstream papers in South Africa would have been prepared to publish Vrye Weekblad’s exposure of the death squads which sent shock waves throughout the world. The author concludes that without the ‘alternative’ newspapers, South Africa’s true story would have remained unrecorded.
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Pages	72-80
Article	Access to Article
Source	Development Dialogue
VolumeNo	2
PubDate	1989
ISBN_ISSN	0345-2328
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