Muckracking journalists who shaped southern Africa over three centuries
By: Anton Harber, University of the Witwatersrand New book extends the canon of investigative journalism from 1706 through to 2017. shutterstock It was a modest, soft-spoken Catholic nun from the US, Sister Janice McLaughlin, who exposed the “protected villages” set up by the Rhodesian government in 1977. The villages were ostensibly to protect civilians from the violence of the liberation armies, but were actually concentration camps behind barbed wire. […]