At its height,the government was running one of the most expensive information campaigns in the world. Rebecca Davis delves into this limited-known historyWhen journalist Ron Nixon was growing up as a young black child in the US, his grandmother gave him a magazine about South Africa. Page after page featured images of wonderful wild animals, or sunsets and elated (full of high-spirited delight) black people on the beach.
Decades later,Nixon would realise that the magazine was a piece of propaganda produced by the apartheid government’s Department of Intelligence, one of countless publications distributed internationally under the guise of being “regular” magazines.
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Source: theguardian.com