Inside the minds of the censors

Off air: Count Basie appeared on the BBC in 1968, but that’s unlikely to have been allowed at the SABC. Photo: David Redfern/Getty Images

Decisions about what music to ban at the SABC were inconsistent, and – what’s worse – random

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