"CRACKDOWN DAY" Rand Daily Mail - 1977

                                             " CRACKDOWN DAY" - "World" banned, Ban on 18 groups, Woods banned, At least 42 held, Naude banned, Widespread raids

                                  Rand Daily Mail, October 20, 1977, original, broadsheet, complete, 8 pages, 38.7 cms x 42.5 cms, condition: very good.

The Rand Daily Mail was a South African newspaper published from 1902 until it was controversially closed in 1985 after adopting an outspoken anti-apartheid stance in the midst of a massive clampdown on activists by the security forces. The title was based in Johannesburg as a daily newspaper and best known for breaking the news about the apartheid state's Muldergate Scandal in 1979. It also exposed the truth about the death in custody of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, in 1977.