ABSTRACT
Journalism and the media, generally, constitute a primary sphere of knowledge generation and cultivation. In contrast to liberal conceptions of journalism as removed from, or neutral and even objective about its objects of interest, journalism as a mode of knowledge production is part of either an entrenchment of, or challenge to, unequal power relations. In step with the recent shift towards insider research, this chapter is partially auto-ethnographical, as the author was one of the Naspers-127 journalists and has since engaged on Naspers platforms about the attempts at cleansing the action of political intent. South Africa’s multiparty negotiations to establish a democracy determined that a commission investigate the gross human rights violations perpetrated between 1960 and 1994. The legal ambit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s work included determining ‘the truth in relation to past events as well as the motives for and circumstances in which gross violations of human rights have occurred’.
