Mail & Guardian

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Mail & Guardian is a national South African weekly newspaper . It appears at the publisher M&G Media , whose main owner with a stake of 87.5 percent is the Zimbabwean media entrepreneur Trevor Ncube, who also acts as CEO, and another 10 percent is held by the British newspaper The Guardian . Mail & Guardian is one of the few South African newspapers that does not belong to the four media groups CTP / Caxton , SIM (until 2013 Independent News & Media ), Times Media Group (formerly Johnnic Communications) and Naspers .

The editorial office of the newspaper is in Johannesburg , editor-in-chief was Ferial Haffajee from 2004 to 2009 . She was the first woman to hold such a position in a major South African newspaper. The print run was just over 33,000 copies in the fourth quarter of 2015.

history

The newspaper was founded in early 1985 under the name Weekly Mail by former journalists for the Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express newspapers who had previously been discontinued. The original shareholders were journalists, academics, and business people, who each contributed several thousand rand . Coming from the liberal tradition of their predecessors, their criticism of apartheid soon led to conflicts with the government of the time, which in 1988 led to a temporary ban on publication. The newspaper appeared daily as The Daily Mail from June 20 to September 4, 1990 , but reverted to the weekly schedule for financial reasons.

1991, during the transition period to the new democratic South Africa, revealed Weekly Mail along with The Guardian called "Inkathagate" scandal on where was revealed that the budget for the armed forces , a part-financing of the Inkatha Freedom Party was derived in order to allegedly strengthen this against the African National Congress . This collaboration also marked the beginning of The Guardian's entry as a shareholder in the financially ailing newspaper, which appeared from 1992 as Weekly Mail & Guardian . In 1995, the Guardian finally took over the majority of the newspaper, which was then given its current name. In 2002 The Guardian sold the majority of its shares in Ncube.

At the beginning of 1994, Mail & Guardian went online as the first African news site on the Internet.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ southafrica.info: "SA's Women of the Year 2004", August 6, 2004 ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.southafrica.info
  2. ^ M & G's circulation on the rise. Mail & Guardian, February 24, 2016, accessed February 25, 2016
  3. ^ The Daily Mail, September 4, 1990, p. 1
  4. ^ A celebration of 20 exceptional years in journalism Mail & Guardian on November 24, 2005 (English), accessed on July 13, 2013
  5. ↑ mg.co.za: "About Us" (English)

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