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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Naspers |
| Publisher | Naspers |
| Editor | Willem Jordaan |
| Founded | 1915 |
| Language | Afrikaans |
| Headquarters | Cape Town |
| Circulation | 27,757 (Q2 2022) |
| Website | dieburger |
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.
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.
Since 21 December 2024, Die Burger now serves as the only Afrikaans daily newspaper in South Africa, after the closure of titles such as Beeld (in Johannesburg and northern regions) and Volksblad (Free State + Northern Cape) as well as the weekly Rapport.
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).
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.
| 2008 | 2013 | |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern Cape | Y | Y |
| Free State | ||
| Gauteng | ||
| Kwa-Zulu Natal | ||
| Limpopo | ||
| Mpumalanga | ||
| North West | ||
| Northern Cape | Y | Y |
| Western Cape | Y | Y |
| Net Sales | |
|---|---|
| Jan - Mar 2015 | 56 146 [4] |
| Jan - Mar 2014 | 59 895 [4] |
| Oct - Dec 2012 | 61 484 |
| Jul - Sep 2012 | 61 817 |
| Apr - Jun 2012 | 60 354 |
| Jan - Mar 2012 | 61 980 |
| AIR | |
|---|---|
| January – December 2012 | 497 000 |
| July 2011 – June 2012 | 471 000 |
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