Beeld is an Afrikaans

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...

 language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. Beeld is distributed in five provinces of South Africa

Provinces of South Africa

South Africa is currently divided into nine provinces. On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, also known as Bantustans, were reintegrated and the four existing provinces were divided into nine. The twelfth, thirteenth and sixteenth amendments to the constitution...

: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West and KwaZulu-Natal. Die Beeld (English: The Image) was an Afrikaans language Sunday newspaper in the late 1960s. It is the largest Afrikaans language newspaper in South Africa

South Africa

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, with a circulation of more than 100,000 . Its slogan is Jou wêreld, Jou koerant (Your world, your newspaper), and is owned by Naspers

Naspers

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List of editors

• Schalk Pienaar (1974-1975)
• Johannes Grosskopf (1975-1977)
• Ton Vosloo (1977-1983)
• Willem Wepener (1983-1989)
• Salie de Swardt (1989-1992)
• Willie Kühn (1993-1996)
• Johan de Wet (1996-1999)
• Arrie Rossouw (1999-2000)
• Peet Kruger (2000-2009)
• Tim du Plessis (2009-)

See also

• List of newspapers in South Africa