Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the 1995 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. In KwaNdebele -- Chapter 2. The Apartheid Press -- Chapter 3. Gunfire and Jingles -- Chapter 4. The Ghetto -- Chapter 5. In Katlehong -- Chapter 6. A Strenuous Profession -- Chapter 7. Just Jon -- Chapter 8. The Whiteness of the Star -- Chapter 9. At the End of the Day, a Slippered Gentleman -- Chapter 10. ""We Are Black Before We Are Journalists -- Chapter 11. Abiding the Umlungu -- Chapter 12. State of Emergency -- Chapter 13. ""They Are Playing Marbles with Our Country
Chapter 14. Kidnappings, Bombs, and Dog Shows -- Chapter 15. Back to KwaNdebele -- Epilogue to the 1995 Edition -- Index
Summary
Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who--fearing government disapproval--may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue