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This book gives a fascinating insight into the engine room of the once powerful political communication instrument of the then ruling National Party: Naspers and its founding newspaper, Die Burger. It shows with academic precision how management, editors and journalists in the field played out their parts in the transformation period of a politically and culturally divided society.

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This is an excellent book. It is well-researched and certainly makes a very specific and worthwhile contribution to the field of South African media history - that of the Afrikaans publishing house Naspers and its founding newspaper, Die Burger. - Prof JD Froneman, North-West University, Potchefstroom. This book gives a fascinating insight into the engine room of a once powerful political communication instrument of the then ruling National Party. It shows clinically and with academic precision how management, editors and the journalists in the field played out their parts in the ongoing transformation period of a politically and culturally divided society. - Dr P Diederichs, Journalism Tshwane University of Technology Ek het hierdie navorsingsverslag van Gabriel Botma gelees met die oe van iemand wat daar was, maar ook buitestander was tydens die laaste groot era van genoemde Kunsredaksie. Ek het dit uiteindelik neergesit met die hoogste waardering vir die navorsing en begrip wat Botma vir sy onderwerp openbaar. Hier is 'n studie wat 'n wyer kring as net die akademiese leser verdien. Dit is 'n navorsingstuk wat van besonderse betekenis is vir sowel die student van die joernalistiek as vir die geskiedskrywer wat meer wil weet van die maniere waarop die Afrikaner sy magsverlies hanteer het in die jare negentig. - Kerneels Breytenbach

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