Broadcasting the End of Apartheid: Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa

Broadcasting the End of Apartheid: Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa

by Martha Evans
Broadcasting the End of Apartheid: Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa

Broadcasting the End of Apartheid: Live Television and the Birth of the New South Africa

by Martha Evans

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Overview

South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid. While the ruling National Party feared the integrative effects of television, they did not foresee how exclusion from globally unifying broadcasts would gradually erode their power. South Africa was barred from participating in some of television's greatest global attractions (including sporting events such as the Olympics and contests such as Miss World). With the release of Nelson Mandela from prison came a proliferation of large-scale live broadcasts as the country was permitted to return to international competition, and its re-admittance was played out on television screens across the world. These events were pivotal in shaping and consolidating the country's emerging post-apartheid national identity. Broadcasting the End of Apartheid assesses the socio-political effects of live broadcasting on South Africa's transition to democracy.
Martha Evans argues that just as print media had a powerful influence on the development of Afrikaner nationalism, so the 'liveness' of television helped to consolidate the post-apartheid South African national identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857735836
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 07/15/2014
Series: International Library of African Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 344
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Martha Evans is a lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, where she completed her PhD thesis. She live and works in South Africa.

Table of Contents

Timeline X

Abbreviations and Acronyms X

List of Figures X

Acknowledgements Xx

Introduction Xx

Media Events and
South African National Identity Xx
2. Events Envy: South Africa's Exclusion from the Media Events of the '60s, '70s and '80s
Xx
3. The Shamanizing Ayatollah:
Mandela and the Dismantling of Apartheid
Xx
4. Disrupting the Centre: 'Liveness' and the Negotiation of Disaster During the Transition
Xx
The Televised Birth of the Rainbow Nation: The Election and Mandela's Inauguration
Xx
6. Consolidation: South Africa's Return
to the Global Fold and the Making of Madiba
Xx
Conclusion Xx

References
Xx
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