About The 50-Year Struggle For Free Press Under Apartheid | The Trouble With Truth
For almost 50 years, black South Africans struggled for their right to simply exist under Apartheid. One way the racist government kept their biassed status quo was through strict censoring of the press. One publication that dared to stand up to this was The Guardian. This is their story.
The 50-Year Struggle For Free Press Under Apartheid | The Trouble With Truth is presented by Real History. Its listed runtime is 50 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
As a society documentary, The 50-Year Struggle For Free Press Under Apartheid | The Trouble With Truth uses struggle, press, under as its central frame. Social documentaries work best as invitations to examine systems through lived experience. Distinguish individual testimony from wider claims, and consider which institutions, incentives and inequalities shape the choices shown.
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- Title
- The 50-Year Struggle For Free Press Under Apartheid | The Trouble With Truth
- Category
- Society
- Runtime
- 50 minutes
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Real History
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