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The Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. It is one of the largest national newspapers in South Africa.
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 ...
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 ...
Apartheid. The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of Afrikaans ...
The Citizen. The Citizen is a South African daily newspaper published in Johannesburg, South Africa. The newspaper is distributed nationally in South Africa. It has long been considered a newspaper of record in South Africa. While its core readership is mainly in Gauteng, it also distributes to surrounding provinces such as Free State, Northern ...
Community Stations. GauTV. 1KZN [4] Rising Sun TV (StarSat) Mpuma Kapa TV [5] Cape Town TV. Soweto TV via DStv until digital switch.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Circulation. 25,834 [1] Website. www.mg.co.za. 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 ...
Makunga was born in Uitenhage. Her mother was a high school pupil at the time, and she was raised by her paternal grandparents, a school principal and a blue collar worker in car manufacturing. As a child, she was inspired to want to become a journalist by the news presenter Noxolo Grootboom 's narration of the 1993 funeral of Chris Hani.