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South Africa Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals
More than 5,000 newspapers, magazines, and journals were registered with the South African Department of Home Affairs by January 1994; sixty-six new ones registered in that year, and registration was no longer required after 1994. As in other nations,
newspaper and magazine publishers are organized into corporate groupings. Major corporations include the Argus Printing and Publishing Company, Perskor, and Times Media. Newspapers are printed in English, Afrikaans, and several African languages. The coun
try's two national newspapers, which are printed on Sundays, are the Sunday Times
and Rapport
. Both are printed in several cities, simultaneously. The Sunday Times
had a circulation of about 524,164 in 1995, and Rapport
, about 396,974. Other major newspapers (and 1995 circulation figures) are City Press
(262,203), The Sowetan
(204,219), and The Star
(199,753) (see table 19, Appendix).
South Africa has more than 300 consumer magazines and 500 trade, technical, and professional publications. Huisgenoot
, a weekly Afrikaans publication, sold more than 520,000 issues in 1995, while You
, its English counterpart, sold nearly 300,000 issues. The leading business and political magazine is the weekly Financial Mail
, with approximately 32,000 subscribers.
The South African Press Association (SAPA) is the country's national news agency. It is a forty-member nonprofit cooperative, engaged in foreign and domestic news-gathering and distribution. Foreign news agencies operating in South Africa include Agen
ce France Presse, Associated Press, Reuters, and United Press International.
Data as of May 1996
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