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Daily struggles : private print media, the state, and democratic governance in Zimbabwe in the case of the Africa Daily News (1956-1964) and the Daily News (1999-2003).

dc.contributor.advisorWaetjen, Thembisa Mary Ann.
dc.contributor.authorDombo, Sylvester.
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-02T15:53:44Z
dc.date.available2014-09-02T15:53:44Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2014.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis employs Jurgen Habermas’ theory of public sphere as an analytical tool to consider the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It argues that, functioning under repressive political regimes and in the absence of credible opposition political parties or as a platform for opposition political parties, the African Daily News, between 1956-1964 and the Daily News, between 1999-2003, played a fundamental role in opening up spaces for political freedom in the country. Each was ultimately shut down by the respective government of the time. The newspapers allowed reading publics the opportunity to participate in politics by providing a daily analytical alternative, to that offered by the government and the state media, in relation to the respective political crises that unfolded in each of these periods. The thesis examines both the information policies pursued by the different governments and the way these affected the functioning of private media in their quest to provide an ‘ideal’ public sphere. It explores issues of ownership, funding and editorial policies in reference to each case and how these affected the production of news and issue coverage. It considers issues of class and geography in shaping public response. The thesis also focuses on state reactions to the activities of these newspapers and how these, in turn, affected the activities of private media actors. Finally, it considers the cases together to consider the meanings of the closing down of these newspapers during the two eras under discussion and contributes to the debates about print media vis-a-vis the new forms of media that have come to the fore.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/11104
dc.language.isoen_ZAen
dc.subjectNewspapers--Political aspects--Zimbabwe.en
dc.subjectPress and politics--Zimbabwe.en
dc.subjectFreedom of the press--Zimbabwe.en
dc.subjectPress law--Zimbabwe.en
dc.subjectTheses--History.en
dc.titleDaily struggles : private print media, the state, and democratic governance in Zimbabwe in the case of the Africa Daily News (1956-1964) and the Daily News (1999-2003).en
dc.typeThesisen

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