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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.
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 ]
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The precursor was Die Beeld, an Afrikaans Sunday newspaper established in the 1960s. Die Beeld later merged with Dagbreek to become Rapport. [3]: 292 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. [4]
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.
On 15 September 1917 the Nasionale Pers bought Het Volksblad for £16 000 and on 20 November of the same year its name was changed to Die Volksblad. On 2 October 1925 Die Volksblad became a daily newspaper. It was a morning newspaper until 29 July 1933 when it became an afternoon paper for nearly six decades.
In 2010, she was named acting editor of Die Burger Eastern Cape. Jongbloed was also a political columnist for both the Rapport and Die Burger. She was the author of the consumer category "Kampvegter" in the Die Burger newspaper. In 2012, she stepped down from Naspers. At the time, Jongbloed was deputy editor of both the Rapport and Die Burger. [2]
However, Nationalist-minded Afrikaners in the Cape had no such outlet and therefore, in 1915, decided to found De Burger, which later became known as Die Burger. They persuaded Malan to become the editor of the new newspaper and he used it as a springboard for entry into parliament. [ 4 ]