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''The South African'' is an English-language South African online news publication created in March 2003 by the multinational media company, Blue Sky Publications, and it operates as an online news and lifestyle publication with offices in
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
and the
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. The publication started as a London-based broadsheet newspaper aimed at providing news for South Africans living in London. It was available in a weekly
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and distributed at the entrances of
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stations until June 2015 when it became an entirely online news source for South African news.


History


2003–2015: print and online years

News published online but also in a weekly print format newspaper distributed at train station entrances in London.


2015–present: online only

The last print issue was printed on 15 June 2015, as readers were by then mostly based in South Africa and readership growth had declined after a change in SA to UK immigration policies. The publication's focus hence pivoted to readers in South Africa.


Awards

In 2018, it won an IAB Bookmark Award for Mobile Publications.Winners of IAB Bookmark Award
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See also

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Media of South Africa The mass media in South Africa has a large mass media sector and is one of Africa's major media centres. While South Africa's many broadcasters and publications reflect the diversity of the population as a whole, the most commonly used language i ...
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List of South African media The is a list of South African mass media, including newspapers, television stations, radio stations and various alternative media. Newspapers National *''Beeld'' (available in 5 of 9 provinces) *''Business Day'' *'' City Press'' *''Daily Mav ...
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List of newspapers in South Africa This is a list of newspapers in South Africa. In 2017, there were 22 daily and 25 weekly major urban newspapers in South Africa, mostly published in English or Afrikaans. According to a survey of the South African Audience Research Foundation ...
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South African Audience Research Foundation The South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF) is a non-profit organisation which publishes media audience and product/brand research on traditional media. It was formerly known as the South African Advertising Research Foundation (follo ...
(SAARF)


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Further reading

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