Allister Sparks
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Allister Haddon Sparks is a South Africa
n writer, journalist and political commentator. He was the editor of The Rand Daily Mail
when it broke Muldergate, the story of how the apartheid government secretly funded information projects.
Sparks later wrote a number of critically acclaimed books on South Africa's transition from apartheid, including Tomorrow is Another Country (1996), The Mind of South Africa (1991), and more recently Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa (University of Chicago Press 2006). Sparks founded the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in South Africa and was its executive director from 1992 to 1997. Sparks has also been a Nieman Fellow, and his latest book is First Drafts.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n writer, journalist and political commentator. He was the editor of The Rand Daily Mail
The Rand Daily Mail
The Rand Daily Mail was a Johannesburg daily newspaper with an anti-apartheid bias that broke the news about the apartheid state's Muldergate Scandal in 1979.- History :...
when it broke Muldergate, the story of how the apartheid government secretly funded information projects.
Sparks later wrote a number of critically acclaimed books on South Africa's transition from apartheid, including Tomorrow is Another Country (1996), The Mind of South Africa (1991), and more recently Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa (University of Chicago Press 2006). Sparks founded the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in South Africa and was its executive director from 1992 to 1997. Sparks has also been a Nieman Fellow, and his latest book is First Drafts.
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- Allister Sparks, Journalist and lecturer
- Allister Sparks.
- Legendary South African Journalist Allister Sparks on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush, Transcript of Thursday, February 23, 2006 interview by Democracy Now!Democracy Now!Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
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, mp3 interview here - Recounting a revolution