Rapport (newspaper)

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Rapport
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TypeWeekly Newspaper (Sunday)
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s) Naspers
Publisher Media24
EditorWaldimar Pelser
Founded1970
LanguageAfrikaans
Headquarters Johannesburg
Circulation 175,552
Website www.rapport.co.za

Rapport is an Afrikaans-language weekly newspaper (released on Sundays) in South Africa and published by Media24. Its head office is in Johannesburg. [1] It is the second largest Sunday newspaper in South Africa after the Sunday Times . [2] Waldimar Pelser has been the editor since 2013.

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History

Rapport was established in 1970 (Jordaan 2014). The precursor was Die Beeld, an Afrikaans Sunday newspaper established in the 1960s. Die Beeld later merged with Dagbreek to become Rapport. [3] :292 The Beeld brand was re-established in 1974 with the founding of the daily newspaper, Beeld (Fourie 2007).

Supplements

Distribution areas

Distribution [5]
200820132018
Eastern CapeYYY
Free StateYYY
GautengYYY
Kwa-Zulu NatalYYY
LimpopoYYY
MpumalangaYYY
North WestYYY
Northern CapeYYY
Western CapeYYY

Distribution figures

Circulation [6]
Net Sales
October - December 2012213 460
July - September 2012220 494
April - June 2012220 485
January - March 2012223 593
October - December 2013187 288
July - September 2013183 187
April - June 2013192 328
January - March 2013210 675
April - June 2014175 552
January - March 2014177 016

Readership figures

Estimated Readership [7] [8]
AIR
January – December 20121 286 000
January - December 20131 338 000

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References

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  2. Is Waldimar Pelser Afrikaans media’s last roll of the dice? Mail & Guardian. 19 April 2013
  3. Joyce, Peter (1989). The South African family encyclopaedia. Internet Archive. Cape Town : Struik Publishers. ISBN   978-0-86977-887-6.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Beeld Website" . Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  5. "Rapport Website" . Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  6. Audit Bureau of Circulations (S.A)
  7. SAARF AMPS (Previous Presentations)
  8. SAARF AMPS (Industry Presentations)

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