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Beeld
''Beeld'' (freely translated as ''Picture'' or ''Image'') is an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. ''Beeld'' is distributed in four provinces of South Africa: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West, previously part of the former Transvaal province. ''Die Beeld'' (English: ''The Image'') was an Afrikaans-language Sunday newspaper in the late 1960s. History The newspaper was aligned with the National Party and apartheid policies.Beeld’s new editor of `iron’ ''The Mail & Guardian''. 16 August 1996 In later years, the newspaper was seen to be more aligned with the Democratic Party. In April 1981, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriaan Basson
Adriaan Jurgens Basson is a South African journalist who has been the editor-in-chief of News24 since April 2016. Known for his investigative journalism, he was formerly the editor of Netwerk24 and '' Beeld''. Career After matriculating at Brackenfell High School in 1999, Basson attended Stellenbosch University, where he was editor of '' Die Matie'' in 2002. He began his career in 2003 as a reporter at '' Beeld'', an Afrikaans daily newspaper. Thereafter he spent three years as an investigative reporter at the ''Mail & Guardian'', where, with Sam Sole and Stefaans Brümmer, he was one of three founding members of amaBhungane in 2010. He went on to become assistant editor at '' City Press''. During this period, in 2011, he was named one of the ''Mail & Guardian'''s 200 Young South Africans. He left ''City Press'' on 1 October 2013 to return to ''Beeld'' as editor. In September 2015 he was appointed as editor of Netwerk24, another Afrikaans-language publication in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 area, urban newspapers in South Africa, mostly published in South African English, English or Afrikaans. According to a survey of the South African Audience Research Foundation, about 50% of the South African adult population are newspaper readers and 48% are magazine readers. Print media accounts for about 19.3% of the R34.4bn of advertising money spent in the country. Newspapers by circulation National publications *''Beeld'' (in 5 of 9 provinces) *''Business Day (South Africa), Business Day'' *''City Press (South Africa), City Press'' *''Daily Sun (South Africa), Daily Sun'' *''KwelaXpress'' *''Mail & Guardian'' *''Naweek Beeld'' *''The New Age (South African newspaper), The New Age'' *''Rapport (newspaper), Rapport'' *''Soccer Laduma'' *''Sondag'' (in 6 of 9 provinces) *''The Sowetan'' *''Sunday Independent (South Africa), Sunday Independent'' *''Sunday Sun''Forever Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapport (newspaper)
''Rapport'' is an Afrikaans-language weekly newspaper (released on Sundays) in South Africa and published by Media24. Its head office is in Johannesburg. It is the second largest Sunday newspaper in South Africa after the ''Sunday Times''. Inge Kühne has been the editor since 2021. In 2024 it was decided that the print edition will close due to declining sales. The last print edition was published on Sunday 22 December 2024, and it is now available online only. History ''Rapport'' was established in 1970 (Jordaan 2014). The precursor was ''Die Beeld'', an Afrikaans Sunday newspaper established in the 1960s. ''Die Beeld'' later merged with ''Dagbreek'' to become ''Rapport''. The ''Beeld'' brand was re-established in 1974 with the founding of the daily newspaper, '' Beeld'' (Fourie 2007). In June 2024, ''Moneyweb'' reported the newspaper would cease print in October. Media24 declined to comment. A month later Media24 announced it will suspend the planned closure until the Competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naspers
Naspers Limited (until 1998 Die Nasionale Pers) is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town. The company has interests in online retail, publishing, real estate, and venture capital investment. Naspers' principal shareholder is its Dutch-listed investment subsidiary, Prosus, which owns approximately 49% of its parent as part of a cross-ownership structure. Founded in 1915 by attorney , Die Nasionale Pers was the largest publishing company in South Africa throughout the 20th century with interests across newspapers, magazines and books. In the 1980s, the company began to diversify, launching a subscription television service and investing in markets outside of South Africa for the first time. In 2001, Naspers made an early investment in Chinese technology firm Tencent and became increasingly focused on the global consumer internet sector. In 2019, Naspers listed its global internet investment business un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Patagonian Afrikaans, Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutch language, Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the free Burghers, predominantly Dutch settlers and slavery in South Africa#Dutch rule, enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages including German language, German, Malay language, Malay and Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic language, analytic Morphology (linguistics), morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Burger
''Die Burger'' (English: The Citizen) is a daily Afrikaans-language newspaper, published by Naspers. By 2008, it had a circulation of 91,665 in the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa. Along with '' Beeld'' and '' Volksblad'', it is one of three broadsheet dailies in the Media24 stable. Traditionally, the paper has held views to the right of the political spectrum, and it used to be the mouthpiece of the South African National Party - a status which only fell away in 1990. Numerous editors of the paper became Ministers in the National Party government. Despite being compelled to do so, Die Burger has, as of 2025, still not issued a public apology for its significant role in the apartheid system in South Africa. History On 18 December 1914, sixteen prominent Afrikaners gathered in Stellenbosch to discuss the establishment of a national newspaper. With considerable financial support from local philanthropists Jannie and Christiaan Marais, purchased a quarter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volksblad
The ''Volksblad'' (English: People's Journal) was an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper published in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and distributed in the Free State and Northern Cape provinces, where it was the largest Afrikaans daily. It was South Africa's oldest Afrikaans newspaper until it closed in 2020. The paper was owned by Media24. It is now available on Netwerk24. History ''VOLKSBLAD'', the oldest Afrikaans daily newspaper in South Africa, made its first appearance on 18 November 1904 in Potchefstroom in the form of ''Het Westen'', a Dutch weekly with four pages with Hendrik de Graaf as the founder owner. The paper devoted itself to the interests and development of the Afrikaner people of the former independent Orange Free State and Transvaal Republics in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). ''Het Westen'' changed its name to ''Het Volksblad'' on 26 March 1915, because it was no longer a regional newspaper for the then Western Transvaal, but rath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaner Culture In Johannesburg
Afrikaners () are a Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa. No definition is agreed upon, but some groupings include the United Nations geoscheme for Africa, United Nations geoscheme, the intergovernmental Southern African Development Community, and ...n ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch people, Dutch Settler colonialism, settlers who first arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in Free Burghers in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652.Entry: Cape Colony. ''Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Casting''. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1933. James Louis Garvin, editor. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector. Afrikaans, a language which evolved from the Hollandic Dutch, Dutch dialect of South Holland, is the First language, mother tongue of Afrikaners and most Cape Coloureds. According to the 2022 South African census, South African National Census of 2022, 10.6% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media24
Media24 is a South Africa, South African mass media company with interests in digital media and services, newspapers, magazines, ecommerce, publishing, television, logistics, and distribution. Established in 2000, and owned by Naspers, the company is headquartered in the Media24 Centre, in the Foreshore, Cape Town, Foreshore, Cape Town. Background Welkom Yizani Welkom Yizani is a share scheme launched by Media24 in September 2006. This scheme owns 15 percent of Media24, a subsidiary of Naspers, Naspers Ltd. Media24 received R1.4 billion after the unbundling of Novus Holdings in 2017. At the Media24/Welkom Yizani annual general meeting it was announced that shareholders will receive a special cash dividend of not less than R14.79 per Welkom Yizani ordinary share. In addition, the board declared an ordinary dividend of 42.5 cents per share. Shareholders of Welkom Yizani accepted Media24’s cash offer to buy out all the shares at a special general meeting held on 22 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Koornhof
Pieter G. J. Koornhof, (2 August 1925 – 12 November 2007) was a South African politician. As an apartheid-era National Party cabinet minister, he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha. He was regarded as one of the most reform‐minded ministers in the government. He later served as South Africa Ambassador to the United States. After the end of apartheid, he joined the African National Congress in 2001. Early life and education Piet Koornhof was born on 2 August 1925 in Leeudoringstad in the Western Transvaal. He studied theology at the University of Stellenbosch, and completed his studies at Oxford after being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. His doctoral dissertation focussed on the "inevitable urbanisation" of black people in Africa. Political career After returning to South Africa, he joined the National Party in 1956. He became a researcher for Hendrik Verwoerd, the Prime Minister of South Africa, and was appointed director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Sun (South Africa)
The ''Daily Sun'' was a tabloid daily newspaper in South Africa. It had a circulation of more than 28,006 copies making it the second largest daily newspaper in the country to the ''Sunday Times'' in terms of largest circulation among all papers. ''Daily Sun'' is based in Randburg, Johannesburg. It targets readers in and around the major urban centres. These readers are predominantly black, English-literate with high-school or further education, and working-class earners – the economic core of South Africa. ''Daily Sun'' has also transitioned to digital, with a monthly pageview count of 4.7 million and an active user base of 3 million in 2023. The last print edition was published on Friday 20 December 2024. It is still available online. In 2024, ''Daily Sun'' received a nomination for "Most Informative Online Publication" at the Behind the Scenes Awards (BTSA). Other nominees in the same category included Zimoja Lezinto, Sunday World, Isolezwe, MDNtv, and Times Live. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Press (South Africa)
City Press is a South African news brand that publishes online. Its flagship print edition was distributed nationally on Sunday, and it has a daily newsletter, online platform, and other social media platforms. These include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The newspaper is owned by Media24, which is the media arm of Naspers. The last print edition was published on Sunday 22 December 2024. It is now available on News2 The publication also runs a daily morning newsletter called ''On a Point of Order'', a play on the South African Parliament scene, which frequently sees members of Parliament rising "on a point of order" to protest against something that somebody has said. Its other newsletters include: * Football Fever, a thrice weekly curation of news and analysis on the beautiful game; * Sundays With City Press, which features all the highlights of the print edition; and * #Trending – The Good Guide, a guide to all the latest culture, entertainment and tech news. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
