Uitenhage Dispatch Nuus

South AfricaUitenhage, Eastern Cape, South AfricaEnglish

The Uitenhage Dispatch Nuus, commonly known as UD News, is a long-standing community newspaper serving Kariega and Despatch in the Eastern Cape. It provides hyper-local news coverage, sports, and community events, catering to both English and Afrikaans speakers as part of the Media24 stable.

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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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