Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolutionary onslaught," which was sweeping the country, amounted to a "coordinated attempt to overthrow the government." With that piece of hyperbole by an information official, South Africa last week imposed one of the most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall...
This argument betrays the same foolish attitude that it is impossible to interfere with capitalism constructively, that we must choose between censorship and indifference. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The fact that Swedish workers are granted family allowances while Americans are not, in no way indicates that Swedish businessmen like money less than their American counterparts. Rather, it demonstrates that Swedish workers have organized politically to ensure that their demands will...
These most recent events are not just another round of deplorable abuses. By combining unprecedented censorship with Gestapo-like mass arrests, the white regime has demonstrated its determination to deny reality--to isolate South African whites from the war raging around them and to hide that struggle from the world. But in the attempt to preempt what a government spokesman termed the "revolutionary onslaught" of resistance groups, the white regime is forcing the country down the path to precisely such a violent and catastrophic revolution...
...even leave spaces where material has been removed. The restrictions are too Byzantine to describe in full, but the net effect is that the South African government now controls everything that is published or broadcast from that country. The government's intent is clear: to censor the fact of censorship, to so limit access to information that whites will have no idea of the scope of unrest in Black areas. That goal may seem implausible to foreigners, but apartheid means "separation" for a reason. With few exceptions, there is no indication of unrest in the areas in which whites live...
...talking about our rights here," protest leader Brad Loel told a crowd of 250 demonstrators. "In the last couple of years we've had music censorship, media censorship, and movie censorship. Now we have piss censorship...