Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa

The book examines the reform of the communications sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting telecommunications the state information agency and the print press from apartheid-aligned apparatuses to accountable democratic institutions took place via a complex political process in which civil society activism embodying a post-social democratic ideal largely won out over the powerful forces of formal market capitalism and older models of state control.