The Rand Daily Mail

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The Rand Daily Mail

Front page of the Rand Daily Mail
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Times Media Group
Publisher	Clive Kinsley
Editor	Ray Hartley
Staff writers	15
Founded	1902
Political alignment	Liberal
Ceased publication	1985
Relaunched	2014
Headquarters	Johannesburg
Website	www.rdm.co.za

The Rand Daily Mail was a South African newspaper published from 1902 until it was controversially closed in 1985 after adopting an outspoken anti-apartheid stance in the midst of a massive clampdown on activists by the security forces. The title was based in Johannesburg as a daily newspaper and best known for breaking the news about the apartheid state's Muldergate Scandal in 1979.^[1] It also exposed the truth about the death in custody of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, in 1977.

The Rand Daily Mail was resurrected as a website by Times Media Group, who hold rights to the original title, in October 2014.