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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. [ 1 ] 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 ...
The Cape Argus is a daily newspaper co-founded in 1857 by Saul Solomon and published by Sekunjalo in Cape Town, South Africa.It is commonly referred to as The Argus.. Although not the first English-language newspaper in South Africa, the Cape Argus was the first locally to use the telegraph for news gathering.
[4]: 330 The Advowson Trust was formed by members of South Africa's English business community to counter the possible merger when Gordon Waddell's Johannesburg Consolidated Investments (JCI) bought 20% of the shares and the Argus Group purchased 39%. [4]: p329 Luyt would announce in January 1976 that he was launching The Citizen.
Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is a news website based in South Africa that serves the online versions of a number of South African newspapers, including The Star, Cape Times, Cape Argus, Weekend Argus, The Mercury, Sunday Tribune, The Independent on Saturday, and The Sunday Independent.
The Cape Post was joined in this campaign by Cape Town's other liberal newspaper at the time, Saul Solomon's Cape Argus, with its new editor Francis Dormer. Specifically, McLoughlin and Solomon accused the Attorney General and his colleagues in the Sprigg government of allowing white juries to acquit whites who had killed blacks.
The death toll from a mining tragedy last week in South Africa that involved an elevator has risen to 13 people after a worker died at a hospital, the mine operator said Monday. Impala Platinum ...
The sympathy and style of his reports during the 1877 frontier war attracted the attention of Saul Solomon of the Cape Argus, who appointed the idealistic young journalist as sub-editor of that newspaper. He took over as the Argus' editor in 1878, taking over from his beleaguered predecessor Patrick McLoughlin, who moved to start the liberal ...
Most newspapers in South Africa, and major international newspaper titles dedicated their front pages to coverage of Mandela's death. Except for Die Burger and the Sekunjalo owned Cape Times [ 82 ] which instead led with a special edition that wrapped around the regular edition covering Mandela's death that was regarded by TIME magazine as one ...