Pretoria News

South AfricaPretoria, Gauteng, South AfricaEnglish

Established in 1898, the Pretoria News is a prominent English-language daily newspaper serving South Africa's administrative capital. Part of the Independent Media group, it covers local, national, and international news, providing comprehensive reporting on politics, business, and community issues for readers in the Pretoria and broader Gauteng region.

MEDIA LANDSCAPE IN SOUTH AFRICA

A small number of legacy publishing groups dominate a national press market characterized by mass-market tabloids operating alongside established broadsheets. The Sunday Times stands as the country's largest national weekly, while the Media24-owned tabloid Daily Sun captures an enormous daily working-class readership. Historic titles like the investigative Mail & Guardian, the financial broadsheet Business Day, and Johannesburg's centre-left daily The Star hold significant journalistic weight across the country. Beyond these prominent English-language publications, the historic Afrikaans daily Die Burger serves substantial regional audiences in the Western and Eastern Cape. Paperboy indexes 77 South African newspapers — browse the full directory below.

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