An Apartheid-Era Journalist Returns to South Africa
Now retired, Don Knowler was dismayed by what he found.
When Don Knowler journeyed back to the site of some of his most historic reporting, he was treated like a celebrity. Once fellow tourists on the South Africa tour bus learned that he had chronicled for The Star the Soweto anti-apartheid uprising (which began on the morning of June 16, 1976), they wanted to pose with him for photos.
The broader message of Knowler’s piece in Australia’s The Mercury newspaper is much more sobering. For a great many members of the black majority that rose up, life these days for them and their offspring is not much better:
To say I was disappointed on return is an understatement.
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