BRASIL E A ÁFRICA DO SUL NAS PÁGINAS DA REVISTA VEJA (1968-1985)

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the relationship between Brazil and South Africa, in the pages of Veja magazine, from 1968, the year of journal creation, until 1985, the end of the Civil-Military Regime, established in 1964. The weekly publication of Editora Abril, which reached a million copies, is an expression of an appropriate editorial project for the new urban middle classes, born with industrialization, and, at the same time, in line with the Regime, is part of the strategy of forming a public, its perception of Brazil and the world. For the field of African studies and the diaspora, this is an important space for understanding how the South African racial segregation regime, called Apartheid, introduced in 1948, was perceived by the journal, and how such readings fit changes in the understanding of Brazil's place in international relations.