NATIVE NEWSPAPERS
In South Africa there are now nearly a score of newspapers entirely conducted by natives. The blacks, in fact, have the same fondness as the whites for seeing things in black and white. One of these journals has just celebrated its tweaty-first birthday, and it boasts a circulation of a thousand copies a week.
Many of the papers are published in native languages, and reach a very high standard. A few contain items in English which are sometimes unconsciously amusing. In a recent report of a wedding readers were told that "Amonk the /pzerents was one sugger basin and a milj-jub." Most of tho -papers are very strong on advertisements. Pickle and sauce manufacturers are great supporters of these columns.
One might expect that some of these papers would show strong -anti-white feeling. This, however, is not the ease. Political questions are dealt with, but in the fairest and most open manner, and most of the writers make strong appeals for a closer understanding between the black and white.races.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 136, 6 December 1932, Page 9
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171NATIVE NEWSPAPERS Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 136, 6 December 1932, Page 9
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