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Two things prevent South Africa from being a total police state: the judiciary, which though obliged to administer laws made by racial fanatics, generally does so fairly and often humanely, and the press, which though also bound by the ruthless philosophy of apartheid, still has more freedom than newspapers in any other part of the Continent.
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© 1979 Frank Barton
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Barton, F. (1979). The White South. In: The Press of Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04075-9_9
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