Dateline Soweto

Travels with Black South African Reporters

By: William Finnegan

Write A Review

Paperback | 12 July 1995 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback
262 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
2.39 x 1.42 x 0.18

Paperback

$49.50

or 4 interest-free payments of $12.38 with

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who--fearing government disapproval--may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue.

Industry Reviews

"Along with the story of how black journalists manage to function, "Dateline Soweto is also a fascinating history of the South African press. . . . Finnegan deftly articulates the delicate status of black reporters working for the white press in two wonderful chapters [which] while dealing specifically with the situation of South African journalists, could well be required reading for their American counterparts."--Jill Nelson, "Washington Post Book World

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $0.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

Map of South Africa
Preface to the 1995 Edition
Acknowledgments
In KwaNdebele	p. 1
The Apartheid Press	p. 21
Gunfire and Jingles	p. 37
The Ghetto	p. 53
In Katlehong	p. 59
A Strenuous Profession	p. 71
Just Jon	p. 79
The Whiteness of the Star	p. 103
At the End of the Day, a Slippered Gentleman	p. 121
"We Are Black Before We Are Journalists"	p. 129
Abiding the Umlungu	p. 151
State of Emergency	p. 165
"They Are Playing Marbles with Our Country"	p. 185
Kidnappings, Bombs, and Dog Shows	p. 197
Back to KwaNdebele	p. 213
Epilogue to the 1995 Edition	p. 235
Index	p. 253
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

Dateline Soweto

Travels with Black South African Reporters

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in History

Looking from the North

Australian history from the top down

Luna Park

The extraordinary story of the showmen, shysters and schemers who built Sydney's famous fun park

A World Appears

A Journey Into Consciousness

The Making of the Middle Ages

An Atlas of Europe

Rasputin

And the Downfall of the Romanovs

The Library That Made Me

200 Years of the State Library of NSW

Where It All Went Wrong

The case against John Howard

We Do Not Part

The Australian Wars

The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish the nation

Super Nintendo

How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun

Battle of the Arctic

The Maritime Epic of World War Two

Motherland

A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

The House of Blue Glass

A life of Penelope Lucas

Against the Rising Sun

An Australian POW's Survival: From Changi to Nagasaki

Japanese Haiku for Cat Lovers

The Stuff of History

A Curated Compendium of Curious Objects and Forgotten People

In Flanders Fields

A WWI children's picture book

Red Dawn Over China

How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

The Shortest History of Innovation

The Fourth Turning

An American Prophecy: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

Half of a Yellow Sun

The Black Cross

A History of the Baltic Crusades

The Return of Russia

From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin

Keeper of Lost Children

'I loved it' Clare Leslie Hall. From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve comes a heartbreaking and immersive historical novel

This product is categorised by