During the apartheid years , journalists like Benjamin Pogrund reported on political and economic issues affecting black South Africans about which whites were largely ignorant . Pogrund , for example , reported on the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 . In 1965 Pogrund wrote in the paper about prison conditions , based on the evidence of prisoners including Harold Strachan . Strachan was sent to prison for a year and a half as a result
Sharpeville massacre
Sharpeville massacre
The Rand Daily Mail