The Citizen
In 1976, during the apartheid era, Luyt founded a new English language newspaper, The Citizen. It was later revealed that the money to establish and finance the newspaper had come from a secret slush fund of the Department of Information, and ultimately from the Department of Defense.
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Famous quotes containing the word citizen:
“For the nation’s rise and fall every citizen has a responsibility.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In a period of a people’s life that bears the designation “transitional,” the task of a thinking individual, of a sincere citizen of his country, is to go forward, despite the dirt and difficulty of the path, to go forward without losing from view even for a moment those fundamental ideals on which the entire existence of the society to which he belongs is built.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)