While most of the western world was rapidly embracing television broadcasting by the 1940s and especially the 1950s, the Republic of South Africa did not launch a television service until ... 1976! The main reason, essentially, was racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bLdxlShwc8
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Interesting fact: After many years of suppressing TV in South Africa, the government's hand began to be pushed by public outrage over missing coverage of the first moon landing in 1969.
