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1959–1975: Joel Mervis, as editor of the Sunday Times, is credited with transforming it into the most widely read and powerful weekly in South Africa. 1975–1990: Albert Tertius Myburgh (26 December 1936 – 2 December 1990) was a South African journalist and editor, best known as editor of the Sunday Times.
In South Africa he continued his career in financial services before starting a column entitled "Out to Lunch" for the Business Times section of The Sunday Times newspaper in 1994. [2] It was thought to be one of the most widely read columns published in the country (with a claimed readership at its peak of 1.7mln readers) at least in part ...
The newspaper was the first in South Africa to place news rather than advertisements on the front page. [3] A women's page was introduced in October 1932. The paper ran a beauty competition from November 1932 to March 1933, for which readers could vote. [1] A favourite debate in the paper during the 1930s was what constituted the "African ...
Ernest Levi Tsoloane Cole (21 March 1940 [1] – 19 February 1990) was a South African photographer. In the early 1960s, he started to freelance for clients such as Drum magazine, the Rand Daily Mail, and the Sunday Express. This made him South Africa's first black freelance photographer. [2] [3]
In 1955, the two companies, Rand Daily Mail Ltd and the Sunday Times Syndicate Ltd were formed into a single company called South African Associated Newspapers (SAAN). [3]: 42 Prior to the formation, the Abe Bailey estate had 59.23% share in RDM and 26.17% in Sunday Times Syndicate which gave the estate 49.71% in the new company SAAN.
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.
The Mail & Guardian, formerly the Weekly Mail, is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, local arts, music and popular culture.
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 ...