List of newspapers in South Africa

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Frontpage of "Die Afrikaanse Patriot", 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, most published in English.^[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 readers.^[2] Print media accounts for about 19.3% of the R34.4bn of advertising money spent in the country.

Newspapers by circulation[]

National publications[]

• Beeld^[4] (in 5 of 9 provinces)
• Business Day
• City Press
• Daily Sun
• Mail & Guardian^[4]
• News Everyday
• ^[5]
• The New Age
• Rapport
• Soccer Laduma^[5][6]
• (in 6 of 9 provinces)^[5][7]
• The Sowetan^[4]
• Sunday Independent
• Sunday Times^[4]
• The Zimbabwean
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Publications by province[]

Mpumalanga[]

• DAILY SUN
• Ermelo Insight (Mpumalanga)|Ermelo Insig
• Kasi Express Community Newspaper
• News Everyday
• Ridge Times
• Standerton Advertiser
• Higvelder
• Ziwaphi
• 013NEWS
• Witbank News

Excelsior News

Gauteng[]

• The Citizen
• The Fordsburg Independent
• Rekord
• Pretoria News
• Sowetan
• (Gauteng Provincial monthly newspaper)^[8]
• The Star^[4]
• ^[5][9]
• The Times
• ^[10]
• Lenasia Times
• Soweto Times
• Eldorado Times
• Benoni Times
• Northern Times

KwaZulu-Natal[]

• The Daily News
• The Independent on Saturday
• Isolezwe
• The Mercury
• Post
• The Rising Sun
• Weekend Witness
• The Witness
• Isambane News

Free State[]

• ^[11]
• Express
• Free State News
• Free State Sun
• Free State Times
• Issue
• The Media News
• ^[5]
• ^[12]
• Volksblad
• Vista
• The Weekly

Northern Cape[]

• Diamond Fields Advertiser (DFA)
• Postmasburg Register
• FiND iT in Kimberley (FiND iT)

Eastern Cape[]

• Daily Dispatch and the Saturday Dispatch
• ^[13]
• Grocott's Mail
• I'solezwe lesiXhosa
• The Herald
• ^[14]
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Western Cape[]

• Die Burger
• ^[5]
• Cape Argus
• Cape Times
• Daily Voice
• Die Son
• ^[5]
• Vukani
• (Saturday edition)^[5]
• (Sunday edition)^[5]

Student/university publications[]

• - Durban University of Technology
• - University of the Free State
• - Durban University of Technology^[15]
• Die Matie - University of Stellenbosch
• - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
• Nux - University of KwaZulu Natal
• - University of Pretoria
• Speculum - Central University of Technology, Free State
• UJ Observer - University of Johannesburg
• Varsity - University of Cape Town
• - North-West University^[16]
• Vuvuzela - University of the Witwatersrand^[17]

Online only publications[]

• ANC Today
• ^[18]
• ^[19]
• Daily Maverick^[20]
• The South African^[21]
• The Daily VOX^[22]
• EBNewsDaily^[23]
• Eyewitness News
• Saffarazzi News
• FiND iT in Kimberley
• GroundUp (news agency)^[24]
• Indian Spice
• Mamba Online
• MatieMedia - University of Stellenbosch
• Mayihlome News
• SurgeZirc SA^[25]
• News Everyday^[26]
• Property Wheel News^[27]
• The Western Cape #TheWC

Regional/community publications[]

These newspapers only serve small regions, towns, or communities within larger cities, or have a small circulation.

Limpopo[]

Mpumalanga[]

Witbank News

North West[]

Gauteng[]

KwaZulu-Natal[]

Free State[]

Northern Cape[]

Eastern Cape[]

Western Cape[]

Defunct[]

These newspapers are no longer published.

•  [de]^[30]
• The Lantern
• New Nation
• Rand Daily Mail
• Sunday Express
• Die Transvaler
• Vrye Weekblad
• The Zingari

See also[]

• Media of South Africa
• List of South African media
• Xhosa language newspapers
• South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF)
• Online newspapers published in South Africa
• South African news websites

References[]

Bibliography[]

• "The Press". Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal: Its People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. Twentieth Century Impressions. Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company. 1906.
• "The Colonial Press: List of newspapers, magazines, &c., filed in the library of the Royal Colonial Institute: South Africa", Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, 38, pp. 71–78, 1907
• "South Africa: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISSN 0065-3896.
• Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford (2020), "South Africa", Digital News Report, UK, OCLC 854746354

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Newspapers of South Africa.

• Contact directory: media contacts, South African Government communications
• News and media, South African Government information
• SAARF website
• "South Africa". Electronic Newspapers of Africa. Virtual Libraries: African Studies. United States: Columbia University Libraries.
• South Africa Newspapers and Africa News
• "Newspapers Held in Microform: South Africa" (PDF). Cooperative Africana Materials Project. United States: Center for Research Libraries. 2012.
• AfricaBib