What is the penetration of newspaper readership …

… in the townships? Can anyone one provide a little information on this? This is a group of people that, from the outside at least, that seem to have a lot of time on their hands as they travel the miles and miles to and from work everyday in a variety of taxis, trains and buses in what is one of the worst of all the legacies of apartheid.

Where do they receive their news from? Newspapers? Cellphones? Word of mouth? Radio? Television? Internet? How reliable is this form of news? Do they have access to sufficient different sources of news? Can this time be used for more than just assimilating the news? Is there an educational opportunity here?

The basis of all the politically stable and economically growing countries is education and the free flow of ideas. And good newspapers enhance that flow of ideas. Maybe this could be a source of revenue for people whereby they create small community based newspapers that concentrate on the community and local news, without a partisan bias.