Launched in 1959, the weekly magazine underwent a major “look and feel” change in 2006 which saw it reclaim its position as the most widely read English business weekly in the country.

Staffed by some of the best journalists in the country, FM is regarded as a weekly “must read” by the business and investor community.

The magazine is a leader in providing thought provoking financial, economic and political articles that go way beyond beat reporting. On a weekly basis, the FM editions relentlessly provide an in-depth analysis of industry and commerce.

It also publishes a series of popular corporate profiles as well as annual publications such as The Little Black Book, AdFocus and The Property Handbook.

The FM, published by BDFM Publishers (Pty) Ltd, a company jointly owned by Avusa Limited and Pearson PLC, and also publishes the Business Day.

BDFM is also the parent company of the African Business Channel, which broadcasts Summit TV, Home Channel and IgnitionTv.

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The Times of South Africa is a daily paper which is delivered free to 137,054 (according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations statistics) Sunday Times subscribers five days a week. It is tabloid in size and is South Africa’s first totally interactive newspaper which publishes in tandem with the website www.thetimes.co.za. The Times has an interactive newsroom where reporters work alongside multimedia producers and photographers to produce content for the newspaper, the website and mobile phones. The Times is also available for purchase at a cover price of R3.50 in limited quantities. The editor of The Times is Ray Hartley, the first South Africa newspaper editor with a blog (http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/hartley).

Times LIVE, the online home of Sunday Times and The Times is one of the fastest growing news sites in the South African market. Times LIVE caters to a loyal South African audience hungry for breaking news, quality journalism and the opportunity to engage and to be more informed.

Web: http://www.timeslive.co.za Mobile: http://m.timeslive.co.za

The award-winning website covers breaking news, sport, entertainment and opinion backed by the daily and weekly content provided in the newspapers. The Multimedia site features cutting edge video, audio and photo stories and the Blogs site offers leading opinion from our stable of journalists and selected guest bloggers.

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In 1998, The Citizen was acquired by CTP/Caxton. Its core readership is now black middle-class men.

The paper was founded in 1976 during the apartheid era by Louis Luyt at which time it was the only major English language newspaper favorable to the ruling National Party. In 1978, during the Muldergate Scandal, it was revealed that the money to establish and finance the newspaper had come from a secret slush fund of the Department of Information, and ultimately from the Department of Defense.

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The history of the Volksblad can be traced to 18 November 1904 when the Dutch printer Hendrik de Graaf founded the Dutch weekly magazine, Het Westen, in Potchefstroom.The paper devoted itself to the interests and development of the Afrikaner people of the former independent Orange Free State and Transvaal Republics in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). The name of this overtly nationalist paper was changed to Het Volksblad in March 1915 and its headquarters were moved to Bloemfontein the following year. In 1917 it underwent a further name adjustment to Die Volksblad, henceforth publishing in Afrikaans rather than Dutch.

In 1925 Die Volksblad became a daily newspaper.

Within the Northern Cape the Volksblad distributes a free weekly supplement called Noordkaap. Since the 1990s the paper has actively courted a larger readership beyond its traditional white Afrikaner following, as is suggested by its new slogan, in three languages: “Saam kan ons – Together we can – Hammoho re ka kgona” (Afrikaans, English and Sesotho).

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The newspaper is internationally known for its editor from 1965 to 1977, Donald Woods. Woods became a friend of Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, and provided support to Biko through his editorials. After Biko’s death in police custody, Woods went into exile to expose the truth surrounding Biko’s death in his book Biko.

During World War II the editor, and major shareholder, was Bernard Steer, father of noted journalist George Steer.

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The Sunday Times is no stranger to controversy, given its hardline approach to South African politics. On 5 November 2007 it was reported that a consortium containing some senior government figures had launched a bid to purchase 100% of Avusa (previously Johncom), the company which owns The Sunday Times.

In 1992, the former columnist Jani Allan sued the British broadcaster Channel 4 for libel over affair allegations involving her and Eugene Terre’Blanche.Allan had previously interviewed the AWB leader for the Sunday Times.Allan had already settled out of court with the London Evening Standard and Options magazine over similar allegations.The then-news editor of the newspaper, the late Marlene Burger and newspaper astrologer Linda Shaw testified against Allan. Prior to the libel suit, Allan had published articles for the newspaper dismissing the affair allegations.Allan also allowed the newspaper to publish answerphone messages left by Terre’Blanche as well as her threats of taking legal action against Terre’Blanche for nuisance contact.Allan lost the case; the judge ruled that she had not been defamed but did not conclude whether or not an affair had taken place.The case became notorious for violence and a dirty tricks campaign.Publications such as the Financial Mail and Allan herself speculated that the defense witnesses were paid by the De Klerk regime in an attempt to destabilise the far-right in South Africa.Shaw recounted her editor, Ken Owen’s reaction to the case “When I came back from London. Owen stood in the middle of the newsroom and said: ‘You have single-handedly destroyed the reputation of every journalist in the country and we have become the laughing stock.”

On 13 November 2005, The Sunday Times broke the story that popular African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma was being investigated on rape charges. It was reported that Jacob Zuma considered legal action against the publication, although it later emerged that an investigation was in fact under way. On 6 December 2005, official rape charges were filed against Jacob Zuma. Zuma would later be acquitted of rape.

By 2006, Jacob Zuma’s discontent with The Sunday Times grew intensely. In March 2007, Zuma sued the paper for 6 million Rand over two columns by popular columnist David Bullard. The two columns, “Stupidity a mitigating circumstance for Zuma”, published on 16 April 2006, and “Visit the Zuma website to see what was meant” (May 7, 2006) were cited by Zuma as defamatory and an “impairment of his dignity”.Although David Bullard was found to be operating within the ethical bounds of The Sunday Times regarding the two columns, he would later fall out of favour with Editor Mondli Makhanya.

On 10 April 2008 Bullard was fired from The Sunday Times after the publication of a column on 6 April 2008 (Uncolonised Africa wouldn’t know what it was missing) received stern protest from several political parties. The editor apologised for the column, saying “by publishing him (Bullard) we were complicit in disseminating his Stone Age philosophies”.

In September 2008, The Sunday Times was again vigorously attacked for publishing a highly controversial piece, this time in the form of a cartoon by critically acclaimed cartoonist Jonathon Shapiro (Zapiro). The cartoon depicted Jacob Zuma getting ready to rape the Justice System while being assisted by the leaders of various ANC and political factions and parties. Zapiro denied any ambiguity between Jacob Zuma’s depiction as a rapist in the cartoon and his earlier rape trial. The Sunday Times and its editor were slated by various ANC officials. A joint press release by the ANC, the South African Communist Party and the ANC Youth League lambasted The Sunday Times editor, describing him as a dictator, and called for his replacement: “We can only hope that the newspaper will find a suitable leadership other than the ranting dictator who finds joy in manipulating the truth.”

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