''The Star'' is a daily newspaper based in

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. The paper is distributed mainly in Gauteng and other provinces such as Mpumalanga,

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, and Free State. ''The Star'' is one of the titles of the South African Independent News & Media group (INL), owned by Sekunjalo Media Consortium whose founder and chairman is Dr. Iqbal Survé. For many years, ''The Star'' was owned by the Argus Printing & Publishing Company, controlled by the Anglo American Corporation. The Irish Independent News & Media (INM) bought and renamed the Argus in the early 1990s. Sekujalo acquired INL in 2013.

Content

The content published in ''The Star'' focuses on leading daily national, local and international national news and analysis. Its leader and opinion page offers a platform for thought leaders to contribute their opinions on topical news.

Products

''The Star'' houses the ''Business Report'' newspaper (a widely-read financial newspaper in South Africa), as well as a carrier for the following supplements: * Tonight * Talent 360 * Drive 360 *

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Awards

Newspaper Journalism Awards 2012 * Hard News: Angelique Serrao "Gauteng toll roads" * Feature photographs: Antoine de Ras "The Long Road Home" * Hard News: Louise Flanagan "92 million: Zuma's political elite benefit" * Enterprise News: Lebogang Seale "Raped by the justice system" * Feature Writing: Beauregard Tromp "The weight of water" Jonathan Ancer "Adventures of an AWOL Chequebook" shared with our sister paper '' Cape Times'' * News photographs: Antoine de Ras "Mogadishu Madness" * Feature photographs: Antoine de Ras "The Long Road Home"" * Sports photographs: Adrian de Kock "Polo Pigeons"

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2013 Sikuvile Journalism Awards * Rising Star of the Year: Kristen van Schie Vast Number of Entries Standard Bank 2014 Sikuvile Journalism Awards * Hard News: Angelique Serrao, Botho Molosankwe, Kristen Van Schie, Lebogang Seale & Kevin Ritchie Deadly Valentine (Series). * Enterprise News: Kristen van Schie After the Fall. * Popular Journalism: Omphitlhetse Mooki Hell Hath no Fury like a Woman Scorned. * Newspaper Journalist of the Year: Antoine de Ras Oscar Pistorius Standard Bank 2015 Sikuvile Journalism Awards * Hard News: Botho Molosankwe, Timothy Bernard, Theresa Taylor & Omphitlhetse Mooki "Joburg's Raging Fires - Firefight Scandal" * Hard News: Botho Molosankwe "What a Bummer" * Graphic Journalism: Sithembile Mtolo "Greening your home" * News Photographs: Bongiwe Mchunu "Extinguisher" Standard Bank 2016 Sikuvile Journalism Awards * Enterprise News: The Star Women's Team 2016 "The Rise of Women's Power" * Graphic Journalism: Lebohang Elvin Nethononda "Soweto Uprising 1976" * Presentation: Narianan Nelandri "16 June: 40 Years On" * Young Journalist of the Year: Nokuthula Mbatha "Deep in the Devil's Drug"

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/BASA Arts Journalism Awards 2016 * News: Silver Winners Wendyl Martin shared with its sister publication Weekend Argus

Notable stories

The Bang-Bang Club

''The Star'' newspaper employed three members of the

Bang-Bang Club The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four conflict photographers, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva, active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994 during the transition from the apartheid system ...

. It employed Kevin Carter as a staff photographer in 1984. Ken Oosterbroek worked for the paper before being appointed its chief photographer in August 1991. João Silva was hired shortly afterwards.

History

''The Star'' newspaper appeared for the first time in

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as ''The Eastern Star''. It was founded in

Grahamstown Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about northeast of Port Elizabeth and southwest of East London. Makhanda is the largest town in the Makana ...

under that title on 6 January 1871 (as a resurrection of the previous ''Great Eastern'' paper), and was moved to the

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sixteen years later by its owners, brothers Thomas and George Sheffield. In 1889, the name ''Eastern Star'' was changed to the one currently in use.

Supplements

*Business Report (Monday-Friday) *Tonight (Monday-Friday) *Workplace (Monday & Wednesday) *Motoring (Thursday) *Play (monthly)

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References

External links

''The Star''s Official Website
* /www.saarf.co.za SAARF Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Star Daily newspapers published in South Africa Mass media in Johannesburg Publications established in 1871