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PERIOD KEY EVENTS
- The first Amateur Broadcasts
1919-1936 - Experimental broadcasts
- The first regular broadcasts
- The African Broadcasting company
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RADIO IN SOUTH-
AFRICA
1936-1948 - Formation of the SABC
- Broadcasting in Afrikaans
THE SOUTH-AFRICAN BROADCASTING
CORPORATION
1948-1960 - Introduction of news services
- The Schoch Commission
- Programming for black listeners
POST WAR II EXPANSION
1960 – 1971 - Introduction of FM
- Station Automation
- African Language services
A PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION
1971-1981 - Introduction of television
- Coming of independent radio
A PERIOD OF CHALLENGE
1981-1992 - The Steyn Commission
- The introduction of a subscription Service
THE RATIONALISATION OF BROADCASTING - The Viljoen Commission 1991
1990-2000 - The beginnings of community radio
- The establishment of a regulatory authority for
A PERIOD OF RECONSTRUCTURING broadcasting
- The triple Inquiry report
- The three tier system
Public Broadcasting
Commercial Broadcasting
Community Broadcasting
- Restructuring of the SABC
- The roll of black empowerment in broadcasting
1.4 STRANDS THAT CAN BE IDENTIFIED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRESS IN SOUTH-AFRICA
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* THE ENGLISH PRESS
* THE AFRIKAANS PRESS
* THE BLACK PRESS
* THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS
THE ENGLISH PRESS
PERIOD DEVELOPMENTS
THE EARLY YEARS IN THE CAPE COLONY - The CAPE TOWN GAZETTE AND AFRICAN
ADVERTISER were published in 1800
- Private newspapers were prohibited except
those published by missionaries in the
hinterland
THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS - The first non-government newspaper The South
African Commercial Advertiser appeared in
1824
- The first bilingual edition of The South African
Journal 1824
- The COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER revived
- Arrival of 5000 settlers in 1820 strongly
influenced the development of the press.
THE NEWSPAPER UNION - Direct Governmental control stopped in 1880
- Indirect control
- Government advertising = withheld
- High tariffs for telegraphic services
- News Press union formed by:
Cape Argus
Cape times
27 Nov 1882
- Purpose of NPU
Promoting & protecting the common
interests of the South-African Press
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PRESS IN - De Natalier – the first newspaper in Natal
SOUTH-AFRICA - The Natal Witness – the oldest newspaper in
South-Africa still in publication
- The Cape Argus
- The Cape Times
- Government Gazette
- De oude Emigrant 1859 first newspaper in
Transvaal
- The Staats Courant published in Pretoria
- The Transvaal Argus – 1866 – Fredrich Jeppe
- Renamed – the Transvaal Advocate
- Die Volkstem 1873 – 1951
- Newspapers close ties to Mining Industries
Digger’s News
The mining Argus
- The Star
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