ABSTRACT
The South African media system is as diverse as the population and history of the country. The press and the broadcasting systems developed differently and have different histories. In addition, the political influences of different regimes over the course of 350 years were responsible for strange turns in the development of the media system. As recently as the early 1990s a peaceful but revolutionary transformation of the whole of society took place when an all-inclusive democracy replaced the minority rule by whites in the country.
