Publishing for the people: the alternative press 1980 - 1999.
Chapter submitted for publication in book: Publishing in South Africa
      by Guy Berger, 2000

The struggle against apartheid has been one of the great social movements of the past two decades, and like most social movements it has also had its press. Of course there were earlier movements against apartheid, also with their press, but it is the one under focus here which was victorious. Ironically, once this most recent movement against apartheid succeeded, it proved unable to take its specialist press into the post-apartheid era.     

 

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