Black Wednesday an attack to end era of political, mass mobilisation
Media had critical role to play during 1976 Soweto uprising
22 October 2021 - 08:25
On Black Wednesday, October 19 1977, BJ Voster’s apartheid government mounted an assault on the media and over a dozen political, student and cultural formations affiliated to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM).
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