Cape Argus

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The Cape Argus
Cape Argus front page 20090721.jpg
The Cape Argus front page of 21 July 2009
Type Daily newspaper
Format Compact
Owner Independent News and Media
Editor Gasant Abarder
Founded 1857
Circulation 60 552
Sister newspapers Cape Times
Official website www.capeargus.co.za

Founded in 1857 by Saul Solomon, the Cape Argus is a daily newspaper published by Independent News & Media in Cape Town, South Africa. It is commonly referred to simply as "The Argus".

Although not the first English language newspaper in Southern African the Cape Argus was the first locally to use the telegraph for news gathering.

As of 2009, the Argus had a daily readership of 359 000 and a circulation of 60 552.[1]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Cape Argus: Readership". Retrieved 2009-07-21. 

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Further reading [edit]

  • Morris, Michael, Paging through History 150 years with the Cape Argus, Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2007, ISBN 978-1-86842-277-7