Special Report Transcript Episode 66, Section 1, Time 22:49

There was more to that, the existence of separate apartheid style newspapers necessitated the demarcation of news rooms on racial lines, even if it was not said so in words in practice it was there. The staffing of the segregated newsroom was also on racial lines and I’m speaking from experience Mr. Chairman because I worked there on these newspapers. Obviously from this flowed the next logical step that pay scales were miles apart for white and black journalists. Again, paying different salaries determined by race to people doing the same job was blatantly discriminatory and was an obvious violation of our human rights.

Notes: Jon Qwelane (Editor)

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