As part of the clampdown in South Africa on 19 October, two newspapers - the Johannesburg based World and Weekend World - were banned. Although staffed by blacks and with a predominantly black readership, the sister newspapers were in fact owned largely by the Argus Company. At the same time the editors of both papers were detained under the Internal Security Act. (RDM 20.10.77)
Both papers had played a leading role in supporting the 'Committee of Ten' (see under preventive detention) in campaigning for the modernisation of Soweto, the scrapping of Bantu Education and against the Bantustan system.
