Die Burger

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Die Burger
Die Burger masthead.svg
TypeDaily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Naspers
Publisher Naspers
EditorWillem Jordaan
Founded1915
Language Afrikaans
Headquarters Cape Town
Circulation 27,757 (Q2 2022)
Website http://www.dieburger.com/

Die Burger (English: The Citizen) is a daily Afrikaans-language newspaper, published by Naspers. By 2008, it had a circulation of 91,665 in the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa. Along with Beeld and Volksblad , it is one of three broadsheet dailies in the Media24 stable.

Contents

History

On 18 December 1914, sixteen prominent Afrikaners gathered in Stellenbosch to discuss the establishment of a national newspaper. [1] :290 With considerable financial support from local philanthropists Jannie and Christiaan Marais, purchased a quarter of 20,000 £1 shares in the new holding company, the project soon got off the ground, with the founding of De Nasionale Pers ("the National Press") and the selection of Dr. D. F. Malan as editor of its daily paper, De Burger (Dutch for "The Citizen"). [1] :290 The first issue was published on 26 July 1915.

Language

Die Burger is published at the Media24 Centre on Cape Town's Foreshore Media24-sentrum nuwe vooraansig 2015.jpg
Die Burger is published at the Media24 Centre on Cape Town's Foreshore
Library stack of Die Burger, 2012. ASC Leiden - Library - South African newspaper stack of Die Burger - 2012.jpg
Library stack of Die Burger, 2012.

Die Burger was originally published in Dutch. In 1916, the first Afrikaans-language articles were published. In 1921, the newspaper's Dutch title (De Burger) was translated into Afrikaans (Die Burger).

Supplements

Political affiliation

Die Burger was a newspaper that supported the nationalist cause and apartheid, and used to be the mouthpiece of the National Party. This only began to change after 1985, when then editor Piet Cillié, a staunch supporter of the government under B. J. Vorster and P. W. Botha, retired. In 1990, the National Party was officially informed by editor Ebbe Dommisse that it no longer served as a political mouthpiece. This disaffiliation was continued in 1999 with the appointment of a more progressive editor, Arrie Rossouw. In 2006, Henry Jeffreys became the first Cape Coloured editor of the paper.

List of editors

Distribution areas

Distribution [2]
20082013
Eastern CapeYY
Free State
Gauteng
Kwa-Zulu Natal
Limpopo
Mpumalanga
North West
Northern CapeYY
Western CapeYY

Distribution figures

Circulation [3]
Net Sales
Jan - Mar 201556 146 [4]
Jan - Mar 201459 895 [4]
Oct - Dec 201261 484
Jul - Sep 201261 817
Apr - Jun 201260 354
Jan - Mar 201261 980

Readership figures

Estimated Readership [5] [6]
AIR
January – December 2012497 000
July 2011 – June 2012471 000

See also

Sources

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Die Burger Website". Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  3. Audit Bureau of Circulations (S.A)
  4. 1 2 "ABC Analysis Q1 2015: The biggest-circulating newspapers in South Africa •". 8 May 2015.
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