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''New Age'' was an influential South African Students' Association .Gurney, Christabel, "'A Great Cause': The Origins of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, June 1959-March 1960" (''Journal of Southern African Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 1. {Link without Title} , pp. 123-144), 132. From the start, ''New Age'' published fiction and poetry as well as journalism. The newspaper had a prize for fiction depicting the oppresions of apartheid,Lindfors, Bernth, "Post-War Literature in English by African Writers from South Africa: A Study of the Effects of Environment upon Literature" (''Phylon'', Vol. 27, No. 1. {Link without Title} , pp. 50-62), 53. and introduced several important politically aware poets, most notably Keorapetse Kgositsile , who became the literary voice of the South African anti-apartheid movement while in exile in the United States . In its journalism, ''New Age'' was aligned with the African National Congress , particularly the older generation of the ANC leadership.Feit, Edward, "Generational Conflict and African Nationalism in South Africa: The African National Congress, 1949-1959" (''The International Journal of African Historical Studies'', Vol. 5, No. 2. {Link without Title} , 181-202), 195. It was sympathetic to labor movements and to militant leftists of all stripes. ''New Age'' was shut down by the government in 1962. REFERENCES |
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