Namibian Media - Namibian Books, Namibian Journalists, Namibian Magazines, Newspapers Published in Namibia, Radio Stations in Namibia (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Namibian Books, Namibian Journalists, Namibian Magazines, Newspapers Published in Namibia, Radio Stations in Namibia, Gwen Lister, Namibian Broadcasting Corporation, Kazenambo Kazenambo, Hannes Smith, Buchter News, Katutura Community Radio, Where Others Wavered, One Africa Television, Allgemeine Zeitung, the Namibian, Die Republikein, New Era, Kanaal 7/channel 7, Namibia Sport, Namibia Today, Kudu Fm, Unam Radio. Excerpt: Gwen Lister, (born 5 December 1953 in East London) is a Namibian journalist, publisher, apartheid opponent and press freedom activist. After receiving a bachelors degree from the University of Cape Town in 1975, she went to work as a journalist at Namibia's Windhoek Advertiser. In 1978 she co-founded the Namibian weekly Windhoek Observer with Hannes Smith, where as political editor she criticised South Africa's apartheid practices in her homeland. This led to several unsuccessful prosecutions and the 1984 banning of the newspaper. She successfully appealed against the move, but was demoted by the paper's management for damaging the newspaper's reputation, leading to a walkout and the dismissal of several colleagues. Despite draconian apartheid government efforts to frustrate her, she launched The Namibian a provocatively named independent paper in August 1985. The newspaper exposed human rights violations by South Africa's occupying forces. This resulted in more harassment, an advertising boycott by the white business community, and in October 1988, an attack by the Afrikaner vigilante group, the Wit Wolwe in which the newspaper's offices were almost burned down. A few months earlier, while pregnant, she was detained, and confined to the Windhoek magisterial district. Her passport was confiscated and she was required to r... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11138988