<i>African Mirror</i>: The Life and Times of the South African Newsreel from 1910 to 1948

Sandon, Emma

doi:10.1080/03057070.2013.826071

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“…Given the deep internal political divisions, 'South Africanism' as promoted by Smuts motivated the construction of white nationhood, based on the cooperation between English and Afrikaans speakers. 136 The African Mirror played a major propaganda role in depicting aspects of South Africa's involvement in the war. The BOI exploited the African Mirror to produce newsreels focusing on recruitment drives, military parades and appeals for support in various towns across the Union.…”

Section: Visual Propaganda: Mobile Film and Military Toursmentioning

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Marshalling a Splintered Society: Censorship, Publicity and Propaganda in South Africa During the Second World War

Monama

2022

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This article examines several important aspects of state propaganda in South Africa during the Second World War, the country's participation in which was riddled by controversy. The wartime government of General J.C. Smuts lacked broad-based support and contested opposition which was shaped by Nazi influences. Latent South African socio-political friction surfaced, and anti-war violence ensued. In response, the Smuts administration adopted a multi-media publicity and propaganda campaign aimed at mobilising support for its war policy. The article focuses on subversive Nazi efforts within South Africa before and during the war, and on the impact of these on internal political divisions. These are significant because they formed the context for propaganda strategies formulated by the South African authorities. The article also analyses the ways in which the Smuts government deployed propaganda through its direction and censorship of radio, film and the print media, including the creation of a Bureau of Information. It argues that in the long run, state propaganda had limited effect and was ultimately a futile exercise as persistent realities, notably, racial prejudice, socio-economic privation and diverse political loyalties undermined the endeavour to achieve national cohesion and unity.

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Section: Visual Propaganda: Mobile Film and Military Toursmentioning

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Marshalling a Splintered Society: Censorship, Publicity and Propaganda in South Africa During the Second World War

Monama

2022

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Johannesburg the Divided City

Parker

2016

Urban Film and Everyday Practice

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Rebuffing Royals? Afrikaners and the Royal Visit to South Africa in 1947

Sapire

Grundlingh

2018

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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This article traces the responses of Afrikaners to the symbolism and political purposes of the 1947 royal visit to South Africa, the first post-war royal tour and the first visit of a reigning sovereign to any dominion. Taking place in the aftermath of a war which had caused political schism within Afrikaner ranks and stimulated radical populist nationalism, a royal tour intended to express the crown's gratitude for South Africa's participation in that war was bound to be controversial.Drawing on press, biographies and autobiographies, and archival sources in the UK and South Africa, this article argues that the layered reactions of Afrikaners demonstrates that even on the eve of the National Party's electoral victory of 1948 on a republican and apartheid platform, attitudes towards monarchy and the British connection were more fluid and ambiguous than either contemporary propaganda or recent accounts have allowed. The diverse meanings attributed to this iconic royal tour reveals a process of intense contestation and reflection about South Africa's place in an empire that was in the throes of post-war redefinition and transformation, and confirms recent characterisations of the 1940s as one of manifold possibilities such that outcomes such as the National Party victory was far from pre-determined.

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African Mirror: The Life and Times of the South African Newsreel from 1910 to 1948

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Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Marshalling a Splintered Society: Censorship, Publicity and Propaganda in South Africa During the Second World War

Marshalling a Splintered Society: Censorship, Publicity and Propaganda in South Africa During the Second World War

Johannesburg the Divided City

Rebuffing Royals? Afrikaners and the Royal Visit to South Africa in 1947

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