Afri-Comics
University of California, Los Angeles
Afri-Comics were published in the mid-1970s as part of an initiative led by Eschel Rhoodie, Secretary of the Department of Information in the South African government from 1972 until 1977. With the approval of the Prime Minister of South Africa, John Vorster, and in collaboration with General H. J. van den Bergh, the head of the South African Bureau of State Security (B.O.S.S), Rhoodie embarked on a “five-year secret propaganda war” against internal and external critics of apartheid (Rhoodie 1983: 280). The most well known part of this propaganda campaign was an attempt to influence US news media, especially through a surreptitious and failed 1975 attempt by US based allies led by “a conservative Republican fund-raiser, entrepreneur and onetime owner of a string of small radio stations and newspapers,” John McGoff, and funded by the South African government, to purchase the now defunct Washington Star (1852-1981) and turn it into a pro-apartheid organ (McGoff obituary New York Times February 4, 1998).
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“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …
UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles
“Mighty Man" was a secretly commissioned comic series published by the South African government, with the help of the CIA, as a propaganda tool during that time. Intended for younger …