Brothers in Armchairs: Post-apartheid cultural struggles at Die Burger : Sun Press : 9781920689520 : 1920689524 : 01 Oct 2014 : This book gives a fascinating insight into the engine room of the once powerful political communication instrument of the then ruling National Party: Naspers and its founding newspaper, Die Burger. It shows with academic precision how management, editors and journalists in the field played out their parts in the transformation period of a politically and culturally divided society. I worked for the Afrikaans newspaper Die Burger in the Western Cape of South Africa for roughly 15 years as a journalist in various capacities, although admittedly at a stage when the influence of the National Party (NP) on Die Burger and society in general was waning. Still, when I started there in December 1988 as general reporter, I was seriously conflicted. On the one hand I had just tied the knot and was overjoyed to have found a job at a hallowed institution of Afrikaans jo