List of South African newspapers
There are only a few national daily newspapers in South Africa . Nationwide distribution is traditionally reserved for most weekly newspapers, the circulation of which is sometimes considerably higher than that of daily newspapers.
The oldest newspaper in South Africa is a government gazette , which was first published in 1800 with both an English ( Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser ) and a Dutch edition ( Kaapsche Stads Courant en Afrikaansche Berierter ). The oldest published newspaper is the 1845 founded Herald of Port Elizabeth .
The South African newspaper market is almost entirely dominated by the four publishers Avusa, Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers , Independent Newspapers and Naspers . Naspers has a monopoly on all major Afrikaans-language newspapers. At the time of apartheid these newspapers were strongly tied to the ruling National Party . In the course of the abolition of the apartheid system and the subsequent disappearance of the National Party from the political scene, these newspapers had to reorient themselves. Even today there are newspapers that target a certain ethnic group.
Today, Caxton / CTP is almost exclusively represented in the newspaper market with local newspapers, which are not listed here due to the restriction to important titles.
Explanation
- Name : The current name of the newspaper. Some newspapers have predecessors or have been renamed over time. The homepage is listed with a reference after the name.
- Since : year in which the first edition appeared.
- Publisher : Publishing house of the newspaper. In individual cases, joint ventures between various publishers.
- Editorial office : main editorial office. Does not have to be the same as the publisher's registered office.
- Edition: as of 2006 (exception Financial Mail, 2008). In South Africa, requirements are generally checked by the Audited Bureau for Circulation (ABC). In the case of Naspers, the ABC-based numbers were taken directly from the Naspers homepage
- Circulation area: provinces in which the newspaper is mainly distributed.
- Notes : Worth mentioning such as renaming, relocation, exclusivity in one area, etc. a.
Daily newspapers
Surname | since | publishing company | Editorial office | Edition | Distribution area | language | Remarks |
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Beeld | 1974 | Naspers | Johannesburg | 105.114 | Gauteng , Mpumalanga and Limpopo | Afrikaans | |
The citizens | 1915 | Naspers | Cape Town | 99,288 | Western Cape and Eastern Cape | Afrikaans | Until 1922 Dutch De Burger |
Business day | 1986 | Avusa and Pearson | Johannesburg | 42,322 | supraregional | English | |
Cape Argus | 1857 | Independent Newspapers | Cape Town | 75,549 | Western cape | English | |
Cape Times | 1876 | Independent Newspapers | Cape Town | 51,285 | Western cape | English | |
The Citizen | 1976 | Avusa and CTP / Caxton | Johannesburg | 90,978 | Gauteng | English | Founded for disinformation, see Muldergate affair |
Daily Dispatch | 1898 | Avusa | East London | 33,535 | Eastern Cape | English | |
Daily News | 1878 | Independent Newspapers | Durban | 56,256 | KwaZulu-Natal | English | Founded as a Natal Mercantile Advertiser |
Daily Sun | 2002 | Naspers | Johannesburg | 463,691 | Gauteng , Eastern Cape , KwaZulu-Natal and Free State | English | |
Diamond Field Advertiser | 1878 | Independent Newspapers | Kimberley | 8,954 | North Cape | English | |
The Herald | 1845 | Avusa | Port Elizabeth | 30,230 | Eastern Cape | English | Oldest newspaper still published in South Africa |
Isolezwe | 2002 | Independent Newspapers | Durban | 58,848 | KwaZulu-Natal | isiZulu | The only major newspaper that does not appear in English or Afrikaans |
The Mercury | 1852 | Independent Newspapers | Durban | 40,526 | KwaZulu-Natal | English | |
Pretoria News | 1898 | Independent Newspapers | Pretoria | 28,055 | Gauteng , Mpumalanga and Northwest | English | |
The Son | 2003 | Naspers | Cape Town | 184.179 | Western Cape , also nationwide on Fridays | Afrikaans | The only Afrikaans-speaking tabloid in the country |
The Sowetan | 1981 | Avusa | Johannesburg | 118 261 | Gauteng | English | |
The Star | 1887 | Independent Newspapers | Johannesburg | 171,542 | supraregional, mainly Gauteng | English | First appeared as the Eastern Star in Grahamstown and moved to Johannesburg in 1889. |
The Times | 2007 | Avusa | Johannesburg | 130,000 | supraregional | English | Was created as a supplement to the Sunday Times and is sent to new subscribers by it |
Volksblad | 1904 | Naspers | Bloemfontein | 27,669 | Free State and Northwest | Afrikaans | oldest Afrikaans-language daily newspaper |
The Witness | 1846 | Naspers | Pietermaritzburg | 23,804 | KwaZulu-Natal | English | was formerly called The Natal Witness |
Weekly newspapers
Surname | since | publishing company | Editorial office | Edition | Distribution area | language | Remarks |
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City Press | 1982 | Naspers | Johannesburg | 187.741 | supraregional | English | Founded as the Golden City Press |
Financial Mail | 1959 | BDFM Publishers (Pty) Ltd | Johannesburg | 29,745 | supraregional | English | Business and finance magazine |
The Independent on Saturday | 1998 | Independent Newspapers | Durban | 56,220 | KwaZulu-Natal | English | |
Mail & Guardian | 1985 | M&G Media | Johannesburg | 48.291 | supraregional | English | Weekly Mail until 1995 , The Daily Mail for a short time in 1990 , renamed to its current name after The Guardian joined the company |
rapport | 1970 | Naspers | Johannesburg | 313,528 | supraregional | Afrikaans | Fusion newspaper out
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Soccer Laduma | 1997 | Naspers | Johannesburg | 295,833 | supraregional | English | Football newspaper |
Sunday Independent | 1995 | Independent Newspapers | Johannesburg | 41,464 | supraregional, mainly KwaZulu-Natal , Gauteng and North Cape | English | |
Sunday Sun | 2001 | Naspers | Johannesburg | 195,850 | nationally, is also in Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland sold | English | Sunday edition of the Daily Sun |
The Sunday Times | 1906 | Avusa | Johannesburg | 504,657 | supraregional | English | |
Sunday Tribune | 1935 | Independent Newspapers | Durban | 113,577 | KwaZulu-Natal | English | |
Sunday World | 1999 | Avusa | Johannesburg | 142,912 | Gauteng , Mpumalanga , Limpopo and Northwest | English | |
The Post | 1955 | Independent Newspapers | Durban | 49,548 | KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng | English | was called the Golden City Post until 1960 . Originally based in Johannesburg and aimed at black people, it is now aimed at the Indian population |
Former major newspapers
Surname | From | To | appearance as |
language | description |
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Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser Kaapsche Stads Courant en Afrikaansche Berierter |
1800 | 1826 | fortnightly | English and Dutch | South Africa's first newspaper and state announcement body, was replaced by the Governement Gazette in 1826 . |
The Friend | 1850 | 1985 | Every day | English | Initially published weekly in English and Dutch, since 1894 only in English. The fact that the newspaper was based in Bloemfontein and thus in the Boer Republic of Orange Free State and that it was both liberal and proburistic made it a peculiar special case. Authors included Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling . Has appeared daily since the 1890s and briefly came under British control during the Boer War . Discontinued in 1985. |
The Afrikaanse Patriot | 1876 | 1904 | weekly | Afrikaans | Founded by the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners , it was the first Afrikaans-language press product and wanted to promote this language as a written language. First published monthly, since 1878 weekly. Initially popular, the support of the British colonial government later cost the newspaper most of its readers and ultimately its existence. With Paarl Post, it received a less political successor that is still published today. |
Rand Daily Mail | 1902 | 1985 | Every day | English | Took an anti-apartheid stance, it was discontinued in 1985, after which some journalists for the newspaper founded the Weekly Mail , now known as the Mail & Guardian . |
The Indian Views | 1914 | 1972 | weekly | Gujarati , English | Had considerable influence in conservative circles of the Indian ethnic group . Independent newspaper in Durban , under the long-term editing of Moosa Ismail Meer . |
The transvalers | 1937 | 1993 | Every day | Afrikaans | Founded by the National Party , which Hendrik Verwoerd appointed as its first editor-in-chief, who later became Prime Minister of South Africa. Stand for Afrikaan nationalism and was pro-German during the Second World War . After Nasionale Pers 1974 in Transvaal with Beeld brought out their own newspaper, lost Transvaler ground, its editor Perskor she put 1993. |
Vrye Weekblad | 1988 | 1994 | weekly | Afrikaans | Independent editor-owned newspaper, anti-apartheid stance; attacked the apartheid system with numerous revelations of secret actions by the security authorities. Has gone through numerous lawsuits that eventually drove her to bankruptcy. |
New Nation | 1985 | 1997 | weekly | English | The newspaper maintained by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of South Africa took an anti-apartheid stance and was therefore banned several times |
literature
- CA Giffard, WA Hachten: Total Onslaught: The South African Press under Attack. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg 1984.
- Johan Muller: Press Houses at War: A Brief History of Nasionale Pers and Perskor. In: The Press in South Africa. Edited by Keyan Tomaselli, Ruth Tomaselli and Johan Muller. John Currey, London 1987.
- Gordon S. Jackson: Breaking Story: The South African Press. Westview 1993.
- Keyan Tomaselli, Ruth Tomaselli, Johan Muller (Eds.): Narrating the Crisis: Hegemony and the South African Press (Critical Studies in African Media & Culture, 3). 2001.
Footnotes
- ↑ description in sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on 25 December 2015
- ↑ World Association of Newspapers: Oldest newspapers still in circulation ( Memento of September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ^ Beeld website
- ↑ Die Burger website
- ^ Business Day website
- ^ Cape Argus website
- ↑ Cape Times website
- ↑ The Citizen website
- ^ Daily Dispatch website
- ^ Daily News website
- ^ Daily Sun website
- ^ Diamond Field Advertiser website
- ↑ The Herald website
- ↑ site of Isolezwe
- ^ The Mercury website
- ↑ site of Isolezwe
- ^ Website of Die Son
- ↑ The Sowetan's website
- ↑ The Star website
- ^ The Times website
- ↑ Self-reported by the publisher
- ^ Volksblad website
- ↑ The Witness website (archive version) ( Memento from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ City Press website
- ^ Financial Mail website
- ^ The Independent on Saturday website
- ^ Mail & Guardian website
- ^ Rapport website
- ↑ site of Soccer Laduma
- ^ Sunday Independent website
- ↑ No homepage
- ^ Website of The Sunday Times
- ^ Sunday Tribune website
- ^ Sunday World website
- ^ The Post website
Web links
- South African media on the South African government website