The Citizen

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The Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper in South Africa , which is mainly distributed in the Gauteng Province . It was founded in 1976 as a covert propaganda tool of the South African apartheid government. Today it belongs to the media group Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers , and the newspaper is based in Johannesburg . On Saturdays the paper appears as Saturday Citizen.

history

The founding of the Citizen was initiated in 1976 by the then Information Minister Cornelius Petrus Mulder . The millionaire Louis Luyt acted as the owner. The costs were covered by a Department of Defense reptile fund. The aim was to distribute a newspaper that, unlike the other English-language newspapers, supported the politics of the ruling National Party . The advertising revenues were low; nevertheless the paper was partly sold at dumping prices . In particular, the Rand Daily Mail was to be damaged in this way. These and other illegal acts of influencing public opinion became known as the Muldergate Affair when they were exposed by journalists for the Rand Daily Mail . As a result, Mulder was fired from the cabinet in 1979.

In 1998, Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers acquired the newspaper by taking over Perskor . In 2012, Eureka Zandberg was appointed editor. Long-time editor-in-chief Martin Williams retired in 2012 after 19 years in this position and was replaced by Steve Motale. The designer Mario Garcia redesigned the sheet and shortened the name of the Saturday edition from Super Saturday Citizen to Saturday Citizen. In addition, the offer on the Internet was expanded.

From January to March 2015 the average circulation was 57,096; This put the Citizen in 7th place nationwide.

description

The Citizen appears as a tabloid in four-color printing . The newspaper is mainly sold in Gauteng, but also in other provinces of the country. According to the company, the contributions are "easy to read" and "short and sweet" ( short and crisp to be). The motto is More news your way (for example: “More news your way”).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Pogrund: War of words: memoir of a South African journalist. Seven Stories Press, New York 2000, ISBN 18888363711, p. 326. Excerpts from books.google.de
  2. ↑ Information Scandal at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on March 27, 2017
  3. ↑ Circulation Analysis at marklives.com (English), accessed on 27 March 2017
  4. ↑ Self-presentation ( memento of April 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at auctions.citizen.co.za (English)