The Sunday Times (South Africa)

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The Sunday Times is an English language weekly newspaper in South Africa that is distributed nationwide. With a circulation of around 500,000 copies, The Sunday Times reaches around 3.5 million readers, making it the largest weekly newspaper in South Africa. The newspaper was founded in 1906 and is published by Mondli Makhanya. Offshoots are The Times daily newspaper , which is distributed free of charge to Sunday Times subscribers , and the Times Live website .

The newspapers belong to the Tiso Blackstar Group (formerly Times Media Group , previously Johnnic Communications Limited ), the largest media group in southern Africa, with around 3,800 employees and a turnover of around 450 million euros. The group is listed on the JSE stock exchange.

In August 2010, Mzilikazi wa Afrika, one of the Sunday Times' best-known journalists, was arrested by members of a special police unit on charges of “fraud” and “obstruction of justice” . The case was viewed by international observers as an attempt by the South African government to intimidate press workers in general.

In 2015, Tertius Myburgh was accused of working for the apartheid regime when he was editor from 1975 to 1990 - paid for by the South African Bureau for State Security .

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  2. "Arrested in the editorial office" , in: Berliner Zeitung , August 6, 2010.
  3. "Mzilikazi Wa Afrika case thrown out of court" ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Sunday Times , August 5, 2010, accessed November 29, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.timeslive.co.za
  4. Top editor what about apartheid spy. iol.co.za of November 29, 2015 (English), accessed November 29, 2015