Volksblad

Volksblad Afrikaans is a South African newspaper that appears in the provinces of Free State and Northern Cape. The appearing in " Naspers " publishing Volksblad is the oldest Afrikaans newspaper in the country. Editorial office is Bloemfontein.

The first issue was published on 18 November 1904 as the Dutch -language weekly newspaper called "Het West." It was published by the printer Hendrik de Graaf in Potchefstroom. The newspaper advocated the interests of Africans in the former Boer Republic of the Orange Free State, which had suffered from the Boer War 1899-1902. In March 1915, the nationalist newspaper was renamed " Het Volksblad " and in 1916 moved to the main editorial to Bloemfontein. 1917 started the newspaper to publish their articles in Afrikaans, and her name was changed to " The Volksblad ". Since 1925, The Volksblad a daily newspaper.

Since the abolition of apartheid in the 1990s, the newspaper has given up all political connections and strives to "Coloured ", but also "Black " as a reader. The trilingual subtitles Saam kan ons - Together we can - Hammoho re ka kgona ( "Together we can do it ", the third track is in Sotho, the most widely spoken language in the Free State ) is to emphasize this change.

The edition of The Volksblad was in March 2006 at about 30,000 copies. Compared with the Afrikaans newspapers, Die Burger and Beeld that appear in the same publisher, but other provinces, the sales figures, although modest, but in the sparsely populated provinces of Northern Cape and Free State, their influence very large.