The accidental frontline journalist
Subtitle: memoir of multiple award-winning South African cameraman
By: Nkosini Samuel Msibi ; as told to Nontobeko M. Mzilethi
Contributors: Mzilethi, Nontobeko M., author
Publisher: Porcupine Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Johannesburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781928455585
Subjects: Photojournalists; Biography; Journalists; Photojournalism; History; Documentary photography; Pictorial works
Other titles: The accidental frontline journalist memoir of multiple award-winning South African cameraman Nkosini Samuel Msibi as told to Nontobeko M. Mzilethi
Description: "Television came late to apartheid South Africa. By the early 1980s the state-owned broadcaster was ready to expand the network to include the black majority. There were sound economic and propagandist reasons for this.  Msibi was among those recruited to be trained as technicians, journalists, and cameramen. The irony was that this enterprise coincided with the sustained popular uprising that finally led to the end of white minority rule. So the new generation of black television journalists went back into their own townships and 'homelands' to record, like no-one else could, the rising resentment and the reciprocal repressions that characterised large swathes of the country in the 1980s and early 1990s."--Page 4 of cover.