South Africa

And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat. There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator. - Winston Smith, 1984

 

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"Racist sharks that only devour white swimmers, husband-snatching witchdoctors and a magic tree with penis-enlarging leaves. Such lurid tales ensure that South Africa's young tabloid industry is riding a wave of sales.

 

Driven by a classic red-top formula of sex and celebrity with a distinctive African bent, the introduction of tabloids has proved a hit with the country's black majority 11 years after the fall of apartheid."