Seeing things in black and white
South Africa’s Publications and Entertainments Act, 1963, directs the country’s censors to prevent the publication or display of everything that is indecent, obscene, offensive and "harmful to public morals.” This phrase is further amplified: “. . . if in the opinion of the court it deals in an improper manner with murder, suicide, death, horror, cruelty, fighting, brawling, ill-treatment, lawlessness, gangsterism, robbery, crime, the technique of crimes and
criminals, tippling, drunkenness, trafficking in or addiction to drugs, smuggling, sexual intercourse, prostitution, promiscuity, whiteslavery, licentiousness, lust, passionate love scenes, homosexuality, sexual assault, rape, sodomy, masochism, sadism, sexual bestiality, abortion, change of sex, night life, physical poses, nudity, scant or inadequate dress, divorce, marital infidelity, adultery, illegitimacy, human or social deviation or degeneracy, or any other similar or related phenomenon.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32524, 6 February 1971, Page 15
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131Seeing things in black and white Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32524, 6 February 1971, Page 15
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