{"id":283,"date":"2019-04-17T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/?p=283"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:08:09","slug":"the-electronic-rand-daily-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/2019\/04\/17\/the-electronic-rand-daily-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"The electronic Rand Daily Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-289 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/eRand-Daily-Mail-image-crpd2-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/eRand-Daily-Mail-image-crpd2-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/eRand-Daily-Mail-image-crpd2.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Library recently acquired online access to the <em>Rand Daily Mail (RDM)<\/em>, a critically important newspaper that pioneered popular journalism in South Africa and was published daily in Johannesburg between 1902 and 1985. From its beginnings in 1902, the <em>RDM<\/em> was known for its controversial yet courageous journalism. Despite significant pressure from the conservative government, its writers openly addressed issues that white readers knew little about. This fully searchable online resource contains every article, advertisement, editorial, cartoon and photograph and offers a wealth of unique perspectives on 20th-century South Africa. It is expected to add considerable value to historical research on campus.<\/p>\n<p>To access the <em>RDM<\/em> from the library homepage, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.sun.ac.za\"><em>http:\/\/library.sun.ac.za<\/em><\/a>, click on <em>FIND<\/em> &gt; <em>E-databases<\/em> &gt; <em>R<\/em> &gt; <em>Rand Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library recently acquired online access to the Rand Daily Mail (RDM), a critically important newspaper that pioneered popular journalism in South Africa and was published daily in Johannesburg between 1902 and 1985. From its beginnings in 1902, the RDM was known for its controversial yet courageous journalism. Despite significant pressure from the conservative government, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/2019\/04\/17\/the-electronic-rand-daily-mail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The electronic Rand Daily Mail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}