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Huisgenoot
''Huisgenoot'' (Afrikaans language, Afrikaans for ''Housemate'') is a weekly South African Afrikaans-language general-interest family magazine. It has the highest circulation figures of any South African magazine and is followed by sister magazine ''You (South African magazine), YOU'', its English-language version. A third magazine, ''Drum (South African magazine), Drum'', is directed at the black market. The magazines have a combined circulation of about 550 000 copies a week. Yvonne Beyers is the current editor of ''Huisgenoot''. It is estimated that more than two million people read ''Huisgenoot'' weekly. The magazine also has many brand extensions and a popular concert, Skouspel, was held at Sun City, North West, Sun City every year until 2014. Some of the best Afrikaans artists are heard and the most popular singers, actors and TV shows of the year are honoured with an award called Tempo. A yearly Skouspel concert is also held in Cape Town. ''Huisgenoot'' launched a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saktyd
Saktyd (the Afrikaans word for 'wiktionary:deadline, deadline') is a South African reality television show, which aired on the Afrikaans television channel kykNET (channel 111 and 144) on DStv between 17 July 2012 and 9 October 2012. In Afrikaans, the word ʽsaktydʼ refers to the time that a magazine or newspaper is sent to a printer to be printed.Huisgenoot. 2012. Saktyd. “Huisgenoot,” 5 July, 25. The show was set in the offices of South Africa's biggest, oldest and most well-known family and general interest magazine, Huisgenoot (the Afrikaans word for 'house companion'), whose editorial team gave 13 delegates the chance to win the job of a lifetime as a journalist at the magazine. The show aired on Tuesdays at 19:30, and was repeated five times during the week: Wednesdays at 10:30, Fridays at 00:00 and 22:00, Saturdays at 15:30 and Sundays at 09:00. In the show's finale on 9 October 2012, the 26-year-old proofreader and copywriter Christiaan Boonzaier from Cape Town was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niel Hammann
Dirk Daniël Hammann, known as Niel Hammann (born 6 September 1937), is a retired South African senior journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the Afrikaans weekly family magazine ''Huisgenoot'', as well as its English sister publication, ''You''. Career Hammann was appointed assistant editor of Huisgenoot in September 1977. He became an editor for the magazine in 1978. ''Huisgenoot'' and ''You'' are published in Cape Town by Media24, an affiliate of Naspers. By the late 1970s, weekly sales of ''Huisgenoot'' dropped to 129,000, leading the publication's owners to consider shutting it down. Hammann revived the popularity of the magazine by turning the what was a conservative family magazine into more of a news magazine with human interest stories, and geared toward television audiences. He also opened syndication offices in London. The magazine's circulation grew to more than 500,000 in 1984 and reached a record high of 540,000 sales in one week in the 1990s. It was read by mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naspers
Naspers Limited (until 1998 Die Nasionale Pers) is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town. The company has interests in online retail, publishing, real estate, and venture capital investment. Naspers' principal shareholder is its Dutch-listed investment subsidiary, Prosus, which owns approximately 49% of its parent as part of a cross-ownership structure. Founded in 1915 by attorney , Die Nasionale Pers was the largest publishing company in South Africa throughout the 20th century with interests across newspapers, magazines and books. In the 1980s, the company began to diversify, launching a subscription television service and investing in markets outside of South Africa for the first time. In 2001, Naspers made an early investment in Chinese technology firm Tencent and became increasingly focused on the global consumer internet sector. In 2019, Naspers listed its global internet investment business un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Patagonian Afrikaans, Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutch language, Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the free Burghers, predominantly Dutch settlers and slavery in South Africa#Dutch rule, enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages including German language, German, Malay language, Malay and Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic language, analytic Morphology (linguistics), morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaans Language
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento that speaks the Patagonian dialect. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland ( Hollandic dialect) spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages including German, Malay and Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and different spellings. There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form. Etymology The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word (n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YOU (South African Magazine)
''YOU'' is a South African family magazine that is aimed at demographically diverse South African English-speaking readers of different ethnicities with coverage on current events and "interesting people". History and profile The ''YOU'' magazine was launched in 1987 by Nasionale Pers, which later became Media24. ''YOU'' was aimed at English-speaking South Africans. The magazine is published in Cape Town by Media24, the print division of Naspers. The magazine is published on a weekly basis. It has two sister magazines: ''Huisgenoot'' (aimed at White and Coloured Afrikaans-speaking readers) and ''Drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...'' (aimed at Black English, Sotho and Zulu-speaking readers). References External links * 1987 establishments in South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaner Nationalism
Afrikaner nationalism () is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnic nationalistic political ideology created by Afrikaners residing in Southern Africa during the Victorian era. The ideology was developed in response to the significant events in Afrikaner history such as the Great Trek, the First Boer War, First and Second Boer Wars and the resulting anti-British sentiment and Anti-communism that developed among Afrikaners and opposition to Military history of South Africa during World War I, South Africa's entry into World War I. According to historian T. Dunbar Moodie, Afrikaner nationalism could be described as a civil religion that drew upon the Afrikaner people's history, the defense of the Afrikaans language, republicanism, and Afrikaner Calvinism. A major proponent of the ideology was the ''Broederbond'' secret society and the National Party (South Africa), National Party that ruled the country from 1948 to 1994. Other Afrikaner nationalist organizations were the Federation of Afrika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You (South African Magazine)
''YOU'' is a South African family magazine that is aimed at demographically diverse South African English-speaking readers of different ethnicities with coverage on current events and "interesting people". History and profile The ''YOU'' magazine was launched in 1987 by Nasionale Pers, which later became Media24. ''YOU'' was aimed at English-speaking South Africans. The magazine is published in Cape Town by Media24, the print division of Naspers. The magazine is published on a weekly basis. It has two sister magazines: ''Huisgenoot'' (aimed at White and Coloured Afrikaans-speaking readers) and ''Drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...'' (aimed at Black English, Sotho and Zulu-speaking readers). References External links * 1987 establishments in South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media24
Media24 is a South Africa, South African mass media company with interests in digital media and services, newspapers, magazines, ecommerce, publishing, television, logistics, and distribution. Established in 2000, and owned by Naspers, the company is headquartered in the Media24 Centre, in the Foreshore, Cape Town, Foreshore, Cape Town. Background Welkom Yizani Welkom Yizani is a share scheme launched by Media24 in September 2006. This scheme owns 15 percent of Media24, a subsidiary of Naspers, Naspers Ltd. Media24 received R1.4 billion after the unbundling of Novus Holdings in 2017. At the Media24/Welkom Yizani annual general meeting it was announced that shareholders will receive a special cash dividend of not less than R14.79 per Welkom Yizani ordinary share. In addition, the board declared an ordinary dividend of 42.5 cents per share. Shareholders of Welkom Yizani accepted Media24’s cash offer to buy out all the shares at a special general meeting held on 22 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsie Verwoerd
Elizabeth "Betsie" Verwoerd (née Schoombee; 17 May 1901 – 29 February 2000) was the spouse of the Prime Minister of South Africa from 2 September 1958 until the assassination of her husband Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September 1966. Betsie was of Danish descent and born on 17 May 1901 to Wynand Johannes and Anna Francina Susanna (née Naude) Schoombee in Middelburg in the Cape Colony. Betsie met her future husband while both were attending Stellenbosch University in the early 1920s. They were married in Hamburg, Germany, where Verwoerd was studying, on 7 January 1927. The couple returned to the Union of South Africa in 1928. They had five sons (Wilhelm Johannes Verwoerd, born 5 September 1929; Daniel Wynand Verwoerd, 19 November 1933; Hendrik Frans Verwoerd, born 11 August 1940; Christiaan Andries Verwoerd, 10 September 1942; and Wynand Schoombee Verwoerd, 28 June 1947) and two daughters (Anna Verwoerd, born 9 March 1932; and Elsabet Verwoerd, 26 July 1936). Anna Verwoerd marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (; 8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, scholar in applied psychology, philosophy, and sociology, and newspaper editor who was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. He is commonly regarded as the architect of apartheid and nicknamed the "father of apartheid". Verwoerd played a significant role in socially engineering apartheid, the country's system of institutionalized racial segregation and white supremacy, and implementing its policies, as Minister of Native Affairs (1950–1958) and then as prime minister (1958–1966). Furthermore, Verwoerd played a vital role in helping the far-right National Party come to power in 1948, serving as their political strategist and propagandist, becoming party leader upon his premiership. He was the Union of South Africa's last prime minister, from 1958 to 1961, when he proclaimed the founding of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Establishments In South Africa
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that has been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign – The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive – Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in modern-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi – Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
