{"id":78727,"date":"2016-09-25T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T08:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/also-noted-allister-sparks-south-african-journalist-who-challenged-apartheid\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T08:34:53","slug":"also-noted-allister-sparks-south-african-journalist-who-challenged-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/also-noted-allister-sparks-south-african-journalist-who-challenged-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"Also noted: Allister Sparks, South African journalist who challenged apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/also-noted-allister-sparks-south-african-journalist-who-challenged-apartheid\/\">Also noted: Allister Sparks, South African journalist who challenged apartheid<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full article by  here:<\/strong> Johannesburg, South Africa News<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submit and get free press releases here:<\/strong> MyPR Free Press Release.<\/p>\n<p>Click HERE to submit your Johannesburg or Gauteng Press Release.<\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/also-noted-allister-sparks-south-african-journalist-who-challenged-apartheid\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[3050,20007,6354,2546,6237,9492,20163,3576,5857],"class_list":{"0":"post-78727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-african","8":"tag-allister","9":"tag-also","10":"tag-apartheid","11":"tag-challenged","12":"tag-journalist","13":"tag-noted","14":"tag-south","15":"tag-sparks","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}