Special Report Transcript Episode 66, Section 1, Time 24:10

There was also some law which determined that while people of any racial group could rise to supervisory and management positions; they could only do this so long as those they supervised or managed were of the same racial group with the exception of course of whites. This meant that there was a ceiling on the number of blacks who could take up jobs in the news room. But more importantly, it prevented blacks from taking up senior positions where they would have supervisory powers over whites. There is no doubt that had SAAN or the Mail tried to take on more blacks on the editorial staff or elevated a black to a supervisory role over whites in the editorial department someone in the production department, which was populated by conservative whites, would have blown the whistle and the company would have been in trouble.

Notes: Raymond Louw (Former editor)

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