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This is a list of newspapers in South Africa.
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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.
Newspaper | Publisher | Language | Circulation (Q2 2013)[3] |
---|---|---|---|
Sunday Times | Times Media Group | English | 368,974 |
Daily Sun | Media24 | English | 287,222 |
Rapport | Media24 | Afrikaans | 192,293 |
Sunday Sun | Media24 | English | 170,843 |
Sunday World | Fundudzi Media | English | 123,515 |
City Press | Media24 | English | 119,959 |
Isolezwe | INMSA | Zulu | 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) | Caxton | 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 |
These newspapers only serve small regions, towns, or communities within larger cities, or have a small circulation.
These newspapers are no longer published.
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