biography
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Gandar, Laurence (Owen Vine)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1915–98)
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in Durban, E South Africa. He studied at Natal University, Pietermaritzburg, and served with South African forces in World War 2. He entered journalism in 1936, and became editor of The Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg, in 1957. His challenges to apartheid, through campaigning journalism and his own articles, transformed the newspaper and set new standards for South African journalism as a whole. Prosecution for publishing reports on jail conditions led to the newspaper's owners sidelining him as editor in 1966. He stayed on as editor-in-chief until 1969, when he became the founding director of the Minority Rights Group in Britain, returning to South Africa in 1972. |
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