Die Burger

The burger is a South African Afrikaans daily newspaper published in the provinces of Western Cape and Eastern Cape. The appearing in " Naspers " publishing newspaper is one of the largest in the country. Editorial office is Cape Town.

The Burger was founded in 1915 as a Dutch-language newspaper called De Burger - among other things by CJ Langenhoven - and appeared at the publishing house " De Nationale Pers ", the forerunner of Naspers. 1922 started the newspaper in Afrikaans to write and has been renamed. The burger was a long time closely associated with the National Party, which is also expressed that the later Prime Minister Daniel François Malan was used as the first editor in chief. The newspaper advocated as the National Party offensively the apartheid system, as well as in a spectacular site exchange with the Dutch newspaper Trouw mid-1960s.

Since the abolition of apartheid in the 1990s, the newspaper has given a closer political ties (although they are close is still politically rather today's opposition parties such as the Democratic Alliance and the ANC) and is also working to the so-called Cape Coloureds, who are predominantly afrikaanssprachig as a reader. 2006 Henry Jeffreys, the first colored editor of the newspaper. The subtitle ons nuwe koerant vir 'n nuwe Wereld ( "Our new journal for a new world " ) is to emphasize this change.

The edition of Die Burger is currently (2006) 99 288 copies so that it was the fourth largest newspaper in South Africa and the second largest in Afrikaans.