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South Africa's government gets such criticism in the entire English-language press, but nowhere with more unremitting vehemence than in Gandar's Mail. Why Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd permits it is one of the unexplained mysteries of an otherwise intolerant land. He has the power to silence his critics, or at least to command the sort of subservience he gets from the country's Afrikaans press. But Verwoerd must also be aware that his country's English-language papers outcirculate its Afrikaans papers by 5 to 1-clear evidence of the reading preference of South...
Steady Harassment. If and when Verwoerd's patience ever runs out, his first target for vengeful action is very likely to be Gandar of the Mail. Born in the sea resort of Durban, on South Africa's east coast, Gandar chose a journalism career after leaving the University of Natal. But he made no particular mark until the businessmen who own the Rand Daily Mail hired him in 1957 to succeed the paper's departing editor...
From that position, Gandar has since led a relentless crusade against Verwoerd's government. In the elections of 1961, the Mail was the only big newspaper to pledge undiluted support to South Africa's new, anti-Verwoerd, Progressive Party. "Immensely heartening," said Gandar, after the Progressives succeeded in sending a single candidate, Mrs. Helen Suzman, to Parliament...
...been endlessly conjured up to explain why Africa's most technically advanced nation still lacks mass television. In white-ruled South Africa, the government refuses to permit TV on the ground that it would corrupt both the white minority and nonwhite majority.* Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has more or less put TV in a category with atom bombs and poison gas. "They are modern things, but that does not mean they are desirable. The government has to watch for any dangers to the people, both spiritual and physical." Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Albert Hertzog has put the government...
...less dangerous than TV, because at least they do not reach everyone's home free. Oddly, South Africans also keep buying TV sets-"for when the time comes." Popular pressure for TV is growing, and some closed-circuit transmissions for industrial and medical groups have been permitted. Reportedly, Verwoerd may use the promise of TV as a vote-getting device to enhance his party's expected victory in the next election. And it is even beginning to dawn on some stubborn Nationalists that television, under strict government control, could be a powerful tool to spread their apartheid gospel...