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/ 23 June 2004

Fat Middle Finger

Max du Preez’s famously shut-down <i>Vrye Weekblad</i> and new tabloid success <i>Kaapse Son</i> have a gesture in common: the big "up yours" to the establishment. But how are the more polite Afrikaans newspapers making out with a distracted and diversified readership? Toast Coetzer digs into the culture.