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Die Burger is an Afrikaans-language South African daily newspaper that appears in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape Provinces . The newspaper published by Naspers is one of the largest in the country. The editorial office is in Cape Town .
Die Burger was founded in 1915 as a Dutch- language newspaper with the name De Burger - among others by CJ Langenhoven - and appeared in the publishing house “De Nationale Pers”, the forerunner of Naspers. In 1922 the newspaper began to write in Afrikaans and was renamed. For a long time, the Burger was closely associated with the National Party , which was also reflected in the fact that the future Prime Minister Daniel François Malan was appointed first editor-in-chief. Like the National Party, the newspaper aggressively represented the apartheid system, including in a sensational exchange of pages with the Dutch daily Trouw in the mid-1960s.
Since the abolition of apartheid in the 1990s, the newspaper has given up closer political ties (although it is still more politically close to today's opposition parties such as the Democratic Alliance than to the ANC ) and also tries to promote the so-called Cape Coloreds , which are predominantly Afrikaans-speaking , as a reader. In 2006, Henry Jeffreys became the newspaper's first color editor-in-chief. The subtitle ons nuwe koerant vir 'n nuwe wêreld (“Our new newspaper for a new world”) is intended to underline this change.
Die Burger currently has a circulation of 99,288 copies (2006), making it the fourth largest newspaper in South Africa and the second largest in Afrikaans.
Web links
- Official Homepage (Afrikaans)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Black editor negotiates race and audience , Mail & Guardian , June 7, 2007, last accessed March 12, 2014 (English)