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The Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. It is one of the largest national newspapers in South Africa.
She left the Herald and Weekend Post at the end of February 2020, to take up a job a editor of the Sowetan on 1 March 2020. [1] Immediately after arrival she had to cope with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic , changing technological processes and managing the pandemic's economic and political impact on the newspaper.
Soweto TV programming is mostly Sowetan content as per ICASA's regulations of over 60% local content. The Sowetan newspaper has a readership of around 1.6 million. [54] Kasibiz Mahala is a free community magazine that promotes local small businesses established in 2012. Nelson Mandela National Museum
Frontpage of "Die Afrikaanse Patriot" (1876), a newspaper in an early form of the Afrikaans language. 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]
Aggrey Zola Klaaste OMSG (6 January 1940 – 19 June 2004) was a South African newspaper journalist and editor. He was best known for being editor of the Soweto-based newspaper, the Sowetan, from 1988 to 2002. He introduced the concept of "nation building" while editor of the Sowetan and spent much of his time and energy promoting the idea.
Homeless talk - a small newspaper produced in Johannesburg; its content is largely about the plight of the homeless; on sale at select shops and most traffic lights in Johannesburg [11] Internet [ edit ]
[1]: 356 After a suggestion was made in the World newspaper that prominent Sowetan people form a local government to run Soweto, a meeting was held in June 1977. [1]: 357 Three hundred people met and a Committee of Ten was formed under the chairmanship of Dr Nthato Motlana with the rest made up of professionals, teachers and churchmen.
Motlana, an anti-apartheid activist and businessman, was also owner of the Sowetan newspaper. [6] New ownership and a new look proved insufficient to revive the fortunes of the newspaper, whose sales declined to 22,000 in early 1997, at which point its owners decided to cease publishing it. [7] The final edition was published 30 May 1997.