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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. 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. Print media accounts for about 19.3% of the R34.4bn of advertising money spent in the country.

Newspapers by circulation

National publications

• Beeld (in 5 of 9 provinces)
• Business Day
• City Press
• Daily Sun
• KwelaXpress
• Mail & Guardian
• Naweek Beeld
• The New Age
• Rapport
• Soccer Laduma
• Sondag (in 6 of 9 provinces)
• 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)
• The Star
• Super Saturday Citizen
• tame TIMES
• The Times
• Townpress Newspaper

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
• Express
• Free State News
• Free State Sun
• Free State Times
• Indigo mag
• Issue
• The Media News
• Saterdag Volksblad
• The Sports Eye
• 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
• Grocott's Mail
• I'solezwe lesiXhosa
• The Herald
• UD Newspaper
• Weekend Post
• Graaff-Reinet Advertiser

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
• 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
• Vuvuzela - University of the Witwatersrand

Online only publications

• AMC
• Mzansi Magazine
• ANC Today
• The Continent
• FiND iT
• Newssnatch
• The South African
• The Daily VOX
• EBNewsDaily
• Eyewitness News
• Saffarazzi News
• FiND iT in Kimberley
• Forever Yena Newspaper
• GroundUp (news agency)
• Indian Spice
• Mamba Online
• MatieMedia - University of Stellenbosch
• Mayihlome News
• SurgeZirc SA
• News Everyday
• Property Wheel News
• 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

• Bonus Review
• Capricorn Voice
• Daller
• Die Bosvelder
• Die Pos
• Die Zoutpansberger
• Far North Bulletin
• Hoedspruit Herald
• Letaba Herald
• Mopani Herald
• Phalaborwa Herald
• Polokwane Review
• The Review

Mpumalanga

• Echo/Ridge Times
• Ermelo Insig
• Highvelder
• Lowvelder
• Middelburg Observer
• Mpumalanga News
• Standerton Advertiser
• Steelburger
• White River Post
• Witbank News

North West

• Brits Pos
• Klerksdorp Record
• Noordwester
• Platinum Weekblad
• Rustenburg Herald
• Witbank News

Gauteng

• Alberton Record
• Alex News
• Bedford and Edenvale News
• Benoni City Times
• Boksburg Advertiser
• Brakpan Herald
• Cosmos Gazette
• Fourways Review
• Germiston City News
• Kempton Express
• Krugersdorp News
• Leisure Options
• Lenasia Times
• Midrand Reporter
• North Eastern Tribune
• Northcliff Melville Times
• Randburg Sun
• Randfontein Herald
• Rekord Central
• Rekord Centurion
• Rekord East
• Rekord Far East
• Rekord Mamelodi
• Rekord Moot
• Rekord North
• Rekord Noweto
• Rekord West
• Rising Sun Lenasia
• Roodepoort Northsider
• Roodepoort Record
• Rosebank Killarney Gazette
• Sandton Chronicle
• Southern Courier
• Southern Echo Lenasia
• Streeknuus
• tame TIMES
• Tembisan
• West Rand Window

KwaZulu-Natal

• Berea Mail
• Estcourt & Midlands News
• Highway Mail
• Ladysmith Gazette
• Mid South Coast Mail/Mid South Coast Rising Sun
• Midlands Herald
• Newcastle Advertiser
• Newcastle Sun
• Northglen News
• Rising Sun Chatsworth
• South Coast Herald
• South Coast Sun
• Thisability
• uMlozi Wezindaba
• Village Talk
• Vryheid Herald
• Zululand Observer

Free State

• Bloemnuus
• Bloemfontein Courant
• Kasi News
• Kroonnuus
• Maluti
• Masilonyana News
• Ons Stad
• Vista
• Vrystaat

Northern Cape

• Gemsbok
• Kuruman Bulletin
• Noordkaap

Eastern Cape

• Aliwal News/Nuus
• Barkly East Reporter
• Grocott's Mail

Western Cape

• Atlantic Sun
• Bolander
• Breederivier Gazette
• City Vision
• Constantiaberg Bulletin
• CXpress
• Die Courant
• Die Hoorn
• DistrictMail
• Eikestad Nuus
• George Herald
• Helderberg Gazette
• Hermanus Times
• Idinga
• Knysna-Plett Herald
• Mossell Bay Advertiser
• Oudtshoorn Courant
• Overberg Venster
• Paarl Post
• People's Post
• Southern Suburbs Tatler
• Suid-Kaap Forum
• Swartland Gazette
• The Edge
• TygerBurger
• Tygertalk
• Village News
• Weslander

Defunct

These newspapers are no longer published.

• The Burghersdorp Gazette
• The Cape Chronicle
• The Daily Independent
• De Oude Emigrant
• The Friend
• Hoofstad
• The Indian Views
• The Lantern
• Highlands Herald
• The Middelburg Gazette
• Moxwêra wa Babaso
• New Nation
• Nova
• Oggendblad
• Oosterlig
• Rand Daily Mail
• Rayton News/Nuus
• South
• Sunday Express
• The New Age
• ThisDay
• Die Transvaler
• Die Vaderland
• Vrye Weekblad
• Weekend Mirror
• 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

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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, vol. 38, London, pp. 71–78, 1907
• "South Africa: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 9781857431315. ISSN 0065-3896.
• "South Africa", Digital News Report, UK: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2020, OCLC 854746354

External links

• 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

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