The Trouble with Truth reveals the power of print in the face of oppression. As the South African apartheid government clamped down on free political activity, an independent-minded newspaper protested. The Guardian developed into the intellectual voice of the liberation movement in South Africa, taking on the discriminatory ideology of apartheid and exposing its practices in print and photographs, headlines and provocative cartoons.

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