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and became the only morning newspaper in Johannesburg but that shareholding was soon bought out by Abe Bailey. In 1920, an agreement was reached by the Argus Group, Rand Daily Mails Ltd and Sunday Times not to publish papers that competed with the three companies and this agreement lasted until 1968.
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who feared it would be purchased by Boer nationalists, and Bailey formed a company called the Rand Daily Mails Ltd. Bailey leased the paper out to three people, George H. Kingswell, who became the general manager, Ralph Ward Jackson its editor and A. V. Lindbergh its distributor as
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Hounded by the state, the paper's board decided to moderate its content for the sake of attracting more affluent white readers. This strategy led to financial losses and the newspaper was forced to close in 1985, eighty-three years after it was founded.
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was founded in 1902 by businessman Harry Cohen and managed by editor Edgar Wallace. Cohen purchased the linotype machines and printing presses for the newspaper from Emmanuel Mendelssohn, equipment from the defunct
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as the first white newspaper to regard blacks as human beings. Yet for most of the apartheid period (1948–1990) the paper suffered from poor management, government infiltration, and state
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reported on political and economic issues affecting black South Africans about which whites were largely ignorant. Pogrund, for example, reported on the
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was a South African newspaper published from 1902 until it was controversially closed in 1985 after adopting an outspoken anti-
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of 1960. In 1965 Pogrund wrote in the paper about prison conditions, based on the evidence of prisoners including
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was resurrected as a website by Times Media Group, who hold rights to the original title, in October 2014.
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stance in the midst of a massive clampdown on activists by the security forces. The title was based in
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journalists Mervyn Rees and Chris Day reported on the use of public funds since 1973 to set up a
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Renowned South African journalist to teach at School of Journalism and Mass Communication
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in 1979. It also exposed the truth about the death in custody of anti-apartheid activist
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as a daily newspaper and best known for breaking the news about the apartheid state's
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which worked in conjunction with the paper. By 1910, the company help form the
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The press as opposition : the political role of South African newspapers
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group bought out Schlesinger's newspaper interests in 1939, closing down the
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network in South Africa and abroad. The money was used in attempts to buy
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Powers of the press : twelve of the world's influential newspapers
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Troublemakers: The Best of South Africa's Investigative Journalism
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The Press and Apartheid: Repression and Propaganda in South Africa
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in 1905 after the death of Harry Cohen, after the intervention of
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In 2019 the Rand Daily Mail was merged into BusinessLIVE.
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and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as
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though the Argus Group held the majority shareholding.
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branch called the Reuters South African Press Agency.
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By May 1915, Rand Daily Mails Ltd (RDM) absorbed the
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