New voices over the air : the transformation of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in a changing South Africa / P. Eric Louw, Viola C. Milton.

Author/creator Louw, P. Eric
Other author Milton, Viola.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Hampton Press, ©2012.
Descriptionviii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Public broadcasting--Political aspects. --South Africa.
Broadcasting policy--South Africa.
South Africa--Politics and government. --1989-1994.
South Africa--Politics and government. --1994-.

SeriesHampton Press communication series
Hampton Press communication series. ^A511940
Contents Introduction: globalization and South Africa's double transformation -- Policymaking: mixing substantive change and rhetoric -- References -- The SABC in context -- The South African game of ethnic ranking, reranking, and patronage -- The Anglo oligarchy and the early SABC -- An Afrikaner oligarchy captures the SABC -- The White oligarchy in crisis and "his master's voice" -- The SABC and the interregnum -- References -- Transforming the SABC -- Mapping out the future: the Matsepe-Casaburri Board -- Problems encountered in transforming the SABC -- A Casaburri team vision: the need for change -- A Casaburri team vision: the problem of trust -- A Casaburri team vision: the new nation -- A Casaburri team vision: Africanization -- A Casaburri team vision: affirmative action -- A Casaburri team vision: the need to be an interventionist board -- Some Casaburri Board failings -- The SABC and the emerging Black elite -- References -- From broederbond to strugglebond: staffing shifts at the SABC -- American roots of affirmative action -- Affirmative action in the South African context -- The SABC's corrective action policy -- The effects of the restaffing exercise -- References -- The shifting symbolic context: from apartheid to rainbow nation to African nationalism -- The National Party: from apartheid to rainbow nation -- The interregnum: the SABC's "Prague Spring" -- A dominant ANC discourse emerges -- References -- The SABC within the context of a mutating broadcast regulatory framework -- The main agendas driving the early IBA -- The IBA formulates its positions -- IBA action: dealing with the SABC and TBVC broadcasters -- IBA action: dealing with M-Net -- IBA action: facilitating new community and private sector voices -- References -- A modernist nation building broadcaster: a refusal of globalization? -- The new globalized environment -- The ANC's nation-building project as a legacy of apartheid -- The Casaburri team as modernist nation builders -- The McKinsey report: challenging modernist nation building at the SABC? -- Echoes of modernity -- References -- Beyond public service broadcasting -- The regulatory framework: 1998-present -- "Profits before people": the SABC's funding model -- Impact on the SABC and its products -- Conclusion -- References -- ANC hegemony and the SABC -- Shifts in ANC policy -- The SABC: a mouthpiece of the ANC? -- What of the future.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012016880
ISBN9781572738119 (hardbound)
ISBN1572738111 (hardbound)
ISBN9781572738126 (paperbound)
ISBN157273812X (paperbound)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1990.6 .S6 N49 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold