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Newspaper Circulation First issued Languages Ownership Website The Namibian: 40,000 (2010) [1] 1985 English, Oshiwambo: Free Press of Namibia [2] www.namibian.com.na: Namibian Sun: 36,000 (2007, planned) [3] 2007 English Namibia Media Holdings [4] namibiansun.com: Republikein: 18,000 [2] 1977 Afrikaans, English Namibia Media Holdings [4] www ...
The Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA) is the national news agency of the Republic of Namibia. It was founded in 1987 under the name Namibia Press Association as a SWAPO partisan press agency, [1] and resuscitated after independence under its current name in 1991. Its operation is regulated by the Namibia Press Agency Act of 1992. [2]
Today the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) is the public broadcaster and offers a "National Radio" in English and nine language services in locally spoken languages. The nine private radio stations in the country are mainly English-language channels, except for Kosmos 94.1 ( Afrikaans ) and Radio Omulunga ( Ovambo ).
The newspaper exposed human rights violations by South Africa's occupying forces and was thus perceived as overly critical and pro-SWAPO by the South African government.. Even the name of the newspaper irritated the South African administration as they preferred the land to be called South West Africa, whereas Namibia was a notion closely related to the independence movem
The New Era is a daily national newspaper owned by the government of Namibia. [1] The newspaper is one of four daily national newspapers in the country, the others being The Namibian (English and Oshiwambo), Die Republikein and Allgemeine Zeitung . [2] New Era was created by the New Era Publications Corporation Act of 1992. [3]
The Namibian Sun, a weekly newspaper established in 2007 and a daily since 2010, is a tabloid launched to "attract young readers". [3] With the acquisition of John Meinert, Namibia Media Holdings also obtained Namibia's only large printing works. The Namibian, New Era and Namibia Today, were all printed at NMH. [6]
The Confidente is a weekly tabloid newspaper in Namibia. [1] It was established by Max Hamata in 2011 as a weekly newspaper. It publishes in English. References
The Windhoek Observer is an English-language Saturday weekly newspaper, published in Namibia by Paragon Investment Holding. It is the country's oldest and largest circulating paper. [1] As of 2009 it had a circulation of 45,000 copies. [2] The Windhoek Observer was founded in 1978 by Hannes Smith and Gwen Lister. [3]