Cape Argus

The Cape Argus
The Cape Argus front page of 21 July 2009
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Independent News and Media SA
EditorTaariq Halim[1]
Founded1857
HeadquartersNewspaper House, Cape Town, South Africa
Sister newspapersCape Times
Websitewww.capeargus.co.za

The Cape Argus is a daily newspaper co-founded in 1857 by Saul Solomon and published by Sekunjalo in Cape Town, South Africa. It is commonly referred to as The Argus.

Although not the first English-language newspaper in South Africa, the Cape Argus was the first locally to use the telegraph for news gathering.

As of 2012, the Argus had a daily readership of 294000, according to the South African Advertising Research Foundation's All Media Products Survey (Amps) Newspaper Readership and Trends. Its circulation for the first quarter of 2013 was 33247.[2][3]

Jermaine Craig is the executive editor of the Cape Argus.[4] He replaced Gasant Abarder, who resigned in early 2013 to take up a post at Primedia in the Western Cape.[5]

  1. ^ "Senior appointments at Independent". IOL. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  2. ^ SAARF AMPS Readership and Trends for 2012
  3. ^ "ABC - Audit Bureau of Circulations of South Africa".
  4. ^ "Argus appoints new editor". Cape Argus/IOL. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Welcome grubstreet.co.za - BlueHost.com". Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.