# Incidents: licensing and closure of outlets, head of government Balthazar Johannes Vorster

Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.

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1 incident matches this view.

- 19 October 1977: [South Africa bans The World and Weekend World newspapers and detains editor Percy Qoboza](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1977-south-africa-world-newspaper-banned-qoboza-detained). On October 19, 1977, a day South Africans came to call Black Wednesday, the government banned the newspapers The World and Weekend World and had the Special Branch police arrest editor Percy Qoboza and deputy editor Aggrey Klaaste. Qoboza…

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