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Culture as communication: the rise of the left-wing press in South Africa

The aim of this paper is to encourage debate about the left-wing media which evolved in South Africa during the first half of the 1980s. Its thesis is tentative, its conclusions provisional, but the need for review and reflection about the media practices of the period is pressing. The ideas for the paper came out of late-night sessions over light tables and letraset and from debates with media activists and students following the crippling press restrictions of the second state of emergency.