Type Sunday newspaper Language English | Owner(s) Naspers OCLC number 70724022 | |
Founded 1982 (as Golden City Press)
1983 (renamed City Press) Headquarters Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa | ||
City Press is a South African English-language Sunday newspaper, published in Johannesburg, Gauteng. It is aimed at black readers and is the country's third-biggest-selling newspaper.
History and operations
The newspaper was established in 1982 as the Golden City Press by James R. A. Bailey and the South African Associated Newspapers (SAAN) group. The following year, "Golden" was dropped from the newspaper's name. SAAN later withdrew from its partnership with Bailey and the newspaper ran into financial difficulties. Consequently, Nasionale Pers took over the publication of the newspaper as well as its sister publications, Drum and True Love & Family, on 1 April 1984.
Its former editor was Khathu Mamaila.
The newspaper is distributed nationally and in neighbouring countries, including Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland. It has a readership of about 2.5 million (source: AMPS 2001A).