Black Wednesday | National Press Freedom Day celebration

In a democracy, press or media freedom enables the media to inform the public and hold the leaders accountable, among other things.

In South Africa, the 19th of October - 'National Press Freedom Day' - is used in remembrance of the banning of the media by the then apartheid government in 1977.

The day saw the banning of 'The World' and 'Weekend World' newspapers.

The editors, Percy Qoboza and Aggrey Klaaste, were detained for providing editorial coverage of the post-1976 student uprisings and the death in detention of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko.

Journalists in various parts of the country were detained. Some lost their lives in detention.

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