Also noted: Allister Sparks, South African journalist who challenged apartheid:
Sparks was the crusading editor of the Rand Daily Mail, the major voice of liberal opposition to the white Pretoria government and a champion of majority rule, when he revealed that apartheid opponent Steve Biko had been beaten to death by the police in 1977. His paper later exposed a secret offensive by the authorities against the mainstream news media in which a slush fund was used to establish a government-friendly newspaper, the Citizen, to counter the Rand Daily Mail and to buy stakes in other publications.
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