List of newspapers in South Africa explained

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 readers.^[2] Print media accounts for about 19.3% of the R34.4bn of advertising money spent in the country.

Newspapers by circulation

Newspaper	Publisher	Language	Circulation (Q2 2013)^[3]
Sunday Times		English	368,974
Daily Sun	Media24	English	287,222
Rapport			192,293
Sunday Sun	Media24	English	170,843
Sunday World	Fundudzi Media	English	123,515
City Press	Media24	English	119,959
Isolezwe			110,753
Ilanga	Independent	Zulu	107,102
The Sowetan	Times Media Group	English	95,068
Die Son (daily)	Media24	Afrikaans	91,735
Isolezwe ngeSonto	INMSA	Zulu	91,359
The Star	INMSA	English	80,303
Isolezwe ngoMgqibelo	INMSA	Zulu	79,874
Die Burger (Saturday)	Media24	Afrikaans	72,788
Sunday Tribune	INMSA	English	70,312
The Saturday Star	INMSA	English	63,844
Beeld (daily)	Media24	Afrikaans	63,016
Beeld (Saturday)	Media24	Afrikaans	59,317
Ilanga Langesonto	Independent	Zulu	59,152
Die Burger (daily)	Media24	Afrikaans	57,696
Weekend Argus	INMSA	English	55,731
Son op Sondag	Media24	Afrikaans	54,367
The Times	Times Media Group	English	50,236
The Citizen (daily)		English	49,731
Independent on Saturday	INMSA	English	41,645
Mail & Guardian	Independent	English	41,116
Johannesburg Times	Canvas Media	English	37 911
Sondag	Media24	Afrikaans	32,867
Cape Times	INMSA	English	32,428
Sunday Independent	INMSA	English	30,842
Cape Argus	INMSA	English	30,310
Daily News	INMSA	English	29,385
The Mercury	INMSA	English	28,396
The Citizen (Saturday)	Caxton	English	28,145
Business Day	Times Media Group	English	26,300
Daily Dispatch	Times Media Group	English	25,748
The Herald	Times Media Group	English	20,962
Weekend Post	Times Media Group	English	20,778
Saturday Dispatch	Times Media Group	English	20,117
Volksblad (daily)	Media24	Afrikaans	19,949
Weekend Witness	Media24	English	19,035
Volksblad (Saturday)	Media24	Afrikaans	17,988
The Witness	Media24	English	17,151
Laudium Sun	Nismedia	English	16,000
Pretoria News	INMSA	English	14,393
Pretoria News (Saturday)	INMSA	English	8,814
News Everyday (daily)	Independent	English & Afrikaans
Briefly News	Legit	English
Celeb Gossip News South Africa	Celeb Gossip	English
Mzansi Magazine	Warten Weg	English	24,692
Forever Yena Newspaper	Warten Weg	English	18,393

National publications

• Beeld (in 5 of 9 provinces)
• Business Day
• City Press
• Daily Sun
• KwelaXpress
• Mail & Guardian
• Naweek Beeld^[4]
• The New Age
• Rapport
• Soccer Laduma^[5]
• Sondag (in 6 of 9 provinces)^[6]
• The Sowetan
• Sunday Independent
• Sunday Sun
• Forever Yena Newspaper
• Sunday Times
• Sunday World
• The Teacher
• Townpress
• Mzansi Magazine
• Vuk'uzenzele
• The Zimbabwean
• The Life News (South African Digital Newspaper)

Publications by province

Mpumalanga

• Bulletin
• DAILY SUN
• Ermelo Insight/Ermelo Insig
• Excelsior News
• Highvelder
• Kasi Express Community Newspaper
• News Everyday
• Ridge Times
• Standerton Advertiser
• Witbank News
• Ziwaphi
• 013NEWS

Gauteng

• The Rising Sun Community Newspapers - Lenasia
• City Mag
• The Citizen
• The Fordsburg Independent Newspaper
• The Joburg Times
• Rekord
• Mapepeza Community Newspaper (multilingual black-owned press)
• The Jozi Chronicle
• The Laudium Sun
• The Lenasia Sun
• Pretoria News
• Pretoria News Weekend
• The Saturday Star
• Sowetan
• Spotlight News (Gauteng Provincial monthly newspaper)^[7]
• The Star^[8]
• Super Saturday Citizen^[9]
• tame TIMES
• The Times
• Townpress Newspaper^[10]

KwaZulu-Natal

• Mzansi Magazine
• The Daily News
• Ilanga
• Ilanga langeSonto
• The Independent on Saturday
• Isolezwe
• Isolezwe ngeSonto
• Isolezwe ngoMgqibelo
• The Mercury
• Forever Yena Newspaper
• Post
• The Rising Sun Community Newspapers - Chatsworth
• The Rising Sun Community Newspapers - Overport
• The Rising Sun Community Newspapers - North Coast
• The Rising Sun Community Newspapers - Merebank
• The Rising Sun Community Newspapers - Mid South Coast
• Sunday Tribune
• Tabloid Media
• UmAfrika
• Weekend Witness
• The Witness
• The Zululand Observer
• Isambane News

Free State

• Arts Ya Rona
• Free State Central News
• DumelangNews^[11]
• Express
• Free State News
• Free State Sun
• Free State Times
• Indigo mag
• Issue
• The Media News
• Saterdag Volksblad
• The Sports Eye^[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
• Go! & Express^[13]
• Grocott's Mail
• I'solezwe lesiXhosa
• The Herald
• UD Newspaper
• Weekend Post^[14]
• Graaff-Reinet Advertiser ^[15]

Western Cape

• Breederivier Gazette
• Die Burger
• Die Burger Saterdag
• Cape Argus
• Cape Times
• Daily Voice
• District Mail
• Drakenstein Gazette
• Eikestadnuus
• Helderberg Gazette
• Hermanus Times
• Paarl Post
• Die Son
• Son op Sondag
• Stellenbosch Gazette
• Swartland Gazette
• Theewaterskloof Gazette
• Vukani
• Weekend Argus (Saturday edition)
• Weekend Argus (Sunday edition)
• Weskusnuus
• Weslander
• Worcester Standard

Student/university publications

• The Conduit - Durban University of Technology
• IRAWA Post - University of the Free State
• Journalismiziko - Durban University of Technology^[16]
• Die Matie - University of Stellenbosch
• NMMYou - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
• Nux - University of KwaZulu Natal
• PDBY - University of Pretoria
• Speculum - Central University of Technology, Free State
• UJ Observer - University of Johannesburg
• Varsity - University of Cape Town
• Wapad - North-West University^[17]
• Vuvuzela - University of the Witwatersrand^[18]

Online only publications

• AMC^[19]
• Mzansi Magazine
• ANC Today
• The Continent
• FiND iT^[20]
• Newssnatch^[21]
• Daily Maverick^[22]
• The South African^[23]
• The Daily VOX^[24]
• EBNewsDaily^[25]
• Eyewitness News
• Saffarazzi News
• FiND iT in Kimberley
• Forever Yena Newspaper
• GroundUp (news agency)^[26]
• Indian Spice
• Mamba Online
• MatieMedia - University of Stellenbosch
• Mayihlome News
• SurgeZirc SA^[27]
• News Everyday^[28]
• Property Wheel News^[29]
• The Western Cape #TheWC

Regional/community publications

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

Western Cape

Defunct

These newspapers are no longer published.

See also

• Media of South Africa
• List of South African media
• Xhosa language newspapers
• South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF)

Bibliography

• Book: Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal: Its People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources . Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company . . 1906. The Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=0XA5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA280.
  • Book: Africa South of the Sahara 2003 . Regional Surveys of the World . . 2003 . 0065-3896 . South Africa: Directory: the Press . 9781857431315 . .

External links

• Contact directory: media contacts, South African Government communications
• News and media, South African Government information
• SAARF website
• Web site: South Africa . . Electronic Newspapers of Africa . Virtual Libraries: African Studies . United States .
• South Africa Newspapers and Africa News
• Web site: Newspapers Held in Microform: South Africa . Cooperative Africana Materials Project . . United States . 2012 .
• AfricaBib

Notes and References

1. Web site: The press in South Africa. SouthAfrica.info. 6 December 2013. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20131210222004/http://www.southafrica.info/about/media/news.htm#.WfUCajBLfDc. 10 December 2013. dmy-all.
2. Web site: SA's newspapers 'under pressure' as circulation drops. BDlive. 6 December 2013.
3. Web site: SA's media: The old is dying, the new is struggling to be born . Politicsweb.co.za . 6 December 2013.
4. Web site: SAARF AMPS. 27 June 2013.
5. Web site: Soccer Laduma Website. 27 June 2013.
6. Web site: Sondag Website. 27 June 2013.
7. Web site: [//www.spotlightnews.co.za/ Spotlight News Website]. 19 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202000957/https://www.spotlightnews.co.za/. 2 February 2017. dead.
8. News: South Africa Profile: Media . 28 September 2017 . . 9 July 2011 .
9. Web site: Citizen launches Super Saturday Citizen. 27 June 2013.
10. Web site: Maphorisa Initiatives Launches Newspaper as second media platform. 12 March 2016.
11. Web site: [//www.dumelangnews.co.za Dumelangnews Website]. 11 March 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20180507032403/http://www.dumelangnews.co.za/. 7 May 2018. dead.
12. Web site: [//www.sportseye.co.za/ The Sports Eye Website]. 19 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202001907/https://www.sportseye.co.za/. 2 February 2017. dead.
13. Web site: Go! & Express . Times Media Group . 2016-01-14 .
14. Web site: Weekend Post . Times Media Group . 2016-01-14 .
15. https://www.graaffreinetadvertiser.com/ "Graaff-Reinet Advertiser"
16. Web site: HomePage. 17 June 2016.
17. Web site: NWU, Potchefstroomkampus: Studentelewe: Wapad-studentekoerant . Puk.ac.za . 2010-04-15 . 2013-01-11 . 30 October 2004 . https://web.archive.org/web/20041030211040/http://www.puk.ac.za/wapad/ . dead .
18. Web site: [//www.vuvuzelaonline.com Vuvuzela Website]. 11 March 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20140302013923/http://www.vuvuzelaonline.com/. 2 March 2014. dead.
19. Web site: 2022-08-29 . About – Africa Media Corporation . 2022-09-01 . AMC . en-GB.
20. Web site: FiND iT . 2020-01-22.
21. Web site: Newssnatch . 2020-01-22.
22. Web site: Daily Maverick . 2020-01-22.
23. Web site: The South African . 2020-01-22.
24. Web site: The Daily VOX - Citizen.Speak.Amplify . 2018-12-04.
25. Web site: EBNewsDaily. 2020-05-09.
26. Web site: GroundUp Home .
27. Web site: SurgeZirc SA. 2021-12-29. Surge Zirc SA. en-GB.
28. Web site: News Everyday - Latest South African News . News Everyday (Pty) Ltd . 2018-12-04.
29. Web site: Property Wheel News - Wheel Media .