The World - News from March 24, 1988
South African newspapers reacting to the closure of a militant newspaper for blacks said the move endangers all of the country’s news media, and it likened government press restrictions to those of the Soviet Union. The closing of the New Nation is “a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the government is ready to go in its attempts to impose thought control,” the Johannesburg Star said in an editorial. “After this, no other newspaper in South Africa is safe.” The weekly New Nation, financed by the Catholic Church, was ordered closed for three months. Its editor, Zwelakhe Sisulu, has been in detention without trial for 16 months.
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