South Africa: Derek Bauer and the Alternative Media of the '80s Laid a Tradition of Unapologetic Truth-Telling

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As was the case in cartoonist Derek Bauer's heyday, the alternative media today is often seen as aggressive, confrontational and unapologetic, standing in sharp contrast to some tame and captured titles in the media landscape. By JANET HEARD, who addressed the opening of a Bauer retrospective at the SA National Gallery.

Like a Derek Bauer caricature, 1985 was a blood-spattered year in South Africa. PW Botha declared a state of emergency to break the mass resistance to apartheid that was making the country ungovernable.

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