List of South African mass media

The is a list of South African mass media, including newspapers, television stations, radio stations and various alternative media.

Newspapers

National

• Beeld (available in 5 of 9 provinces)
• Business Day
• City Press
• Daily Maverick
• Daily Sun
• Die Burger
• Mail & Guardian
• News Everyday
• The New Age
• Rapport
• SAMM News - currently available online
• The Sowetan
• Sunday Independent
• Sunday Sun
• Sunday Times
• Sunday World
• The Witness
• ILANGA
• Laudium Sun

Television broadcasters

Terrestrial and satellite television channels

Free-To-Air

eMedia Investments

• e.tv
• eMovies
• eMovies Extra
• eExtra
• eReality
• ePlesier
• eToonz
• eSERIES
• eNCA

South African Broadcasting Corporation

• SABC 1
• SABC 2
• SABC 3
• SABC News
• SABC Education
• SABC Sport

Subscription-based

MultiChoice

• M-Net
• Me
• M-Net Movies
• Mzansi Magic
• KykNET
• Africa Magic
• Vuzu
• One Magic
• Novela Magic
• 1Max

Independent Stations

• Moja Love
• People's Weather
• Mindset Learn
• Newzroom Afrika
• Movie Room
• Play Room
• DBE TV
• WildEarth
• Business Day TV
• Parliamentary TV
• Via
• BRICS TV
• Roots TV
• OnseTV
• MyTV
• The Home Channel
• Ignition TV
• Honey
• Hilaal TV
• Racing240

Community Stations

• GauTV
• itv
• 1KZN
• Rising Sun TV (StarSat)
• Mpuma Kapa TV
• Cape Town TV
• Soweto TV via DStv until digital switch
• Tshwane TV
• Deen TV
• Glow TV
• Onse TV
• Nongoma TV
• MYtv
• 1 Free State Television via StarSat

Streaming Media

• Showmax
• eVOD
• SABC Plus (formally called TelkomONE)
• Netflix
• Amazon Prime
• BritBox
• Disney+

Direct to home satellite broadcasters

• DStv
• OpenView HD
• StarSat
• 7 AFRICA TV NETWORK

New satellite broadcasting licensees (not yet operational)

• e-Sat
• Telkom Media

New IPTV licensees (not yet operational)

• Telkom Media

Radio stations

See: List of radio stations in South Africa

Street newspapers

• Big Issue
• Homeless talk - a small newspaper produced in Johannesburg; its content is largely about the plight of the homeless; on sale at select shops and most traffic lights in Johannesburg

Internet

• South Africa Today
• Quackdown (Exposes medical fraud and quackery)
• Bizcommunity.com
• ispotdaily.com
• News24
• Thesouthafrican.com
• News Everyday
• Saffarazzi
• The South African
• ZWBDC.co.za
• EBNewsDaily
• Briefly.co.za

See also

• Africa Media Online
• Alternative media in South Africa
• List of magazines in South Africa
• Online newspapers published in South Africa

References

Further reading

• Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford (2020), "South Africa", Digital News Report, UK, OCLC 854746354 {{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help)

External links

• Contact directory: media contacts, South African Government communications
• News and media, South African Government information

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