City Press (South Africa)

City Press is an English, South African Sunday newspaper, which is distributed nationally and in neighboring countries such as Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland. City Press reached about 2.5 million readers, making it the third largest newspaper in South Africa. Target group is the black population.

The newspaper was founded in 1982 as Golden City Press by Jim Bailey in publishing South African Associated Newspapers ( SAAN ). The following year, the golden disappeared from the title. As SAAN gave up the partnership with Bailey, got the sheet into financial difficulties and the publisher Naspers took over the newspaper on April 1, 1984.