南非当局最近永久地封闭了比勒陀利亚的《邮报》和《星期日邮报》,并拒绝再为这两家销售量最大的黑人报纸颁发出版许可证。这是继三年前取缔约翰内斯堡有影响的黑人报纸《世界报》和《周末世界报》之后,又一次行动。几乎代表所有南非黑人记者的新闻工作者协会认为,这次取缔是“对黑人愿望的一场宣战”。南非基督教理事会黑人总书记德斯蒙德·图图说,“政府的目的是要禁锢思想”。甚至连南 South African authorities recently closed Pretoria’s Post and Sunday Mail forever and refused to issue a permit for the two largest-selling black newspapers. This is yet another action after the dismantling of the influential black newspapers in Lebanon and Johannesburg, the Le Monde and the Weekend World newspaper, three years ago. The Association of Journalists, which represents almost all South African black journalists, believes this ban is “a declaration of war on the wishes of Negroes.” Desmond Tutu, chief secretary of the South African Christian Council’s Negroes, said that “the government’s aim is to imprison its minds.” Even south