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Afrikaans-language daily newspaper From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beeld (freely translated as Picture or Image) is an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. Beeld is distributed in four provinces of South Africa: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West, previously part of the former Transvaal province. Die Beeld (English: The Image) was an Afrikaans-language Sunday newspaper in the late 1960s.
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Naspers |
Publisher | Media24 |
Editor-in-chief | Barnard Beukman |
Sports editor | Gert van der Westhuizen |
Founded | 16 September 1974 |
Language | Afrikaans |
Headquarters | Johannesburg |
Sister newspapers | Die Burger, Volksblad |
Website | www |
In June 2024 Naspers announced that it would close the newspaper, along with City Press, Rapport, and the Daily Sun, in October of that year due to declining newspaper sales.[1] A month later Media24 announced it will suspend the planned closures until the Competition Commission approves of its plan to sell newspaper distribution company On-The-Dot to Novus, which was the reason behind the papers' planned shuttering.[2]
2008 | 2014 | |
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Eastern Cape | ||
Free State | Y | Y |
Gauteng | Y | Y |
Kwa-Zulu Natal | Y | N |
Limpopo | Y | Y |
Mpumalanga | Y | Y |
North West | Y | Y |
Net Sales | |
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2000 | 100 000[1] |
Oct – Dec 2012 | 66 132 |
Jul – Sep 2012 | 70 070 |
Apr – Jun 2012 | 73 595 |
Jan – Mar 2012 | 75 019 |
Oct – Dec 2013 | 64 874 |
Jul – Sep 2013 | 64 329 |
Apr – Jun 2013 | 64 073 |
Jan – Mar 2013 | 67 700 |
Jan – Mar 2014 | 62 766[6] |
Apr – Jun 2014 | 59 544 |
Jan – Mar 2015 | 51 064[6] |
2024 | 20 000[1] |