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This chronology is indicative only.
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Context
is provided by the broader communications and media timeline
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antecedents
1652 Jan Van Riebeeck arrives in the Cape
1814 Cape becomes crown colony of Great Britain
1834 Boers move inland and start the Great Trek
1854 contract of Bloemfontein, foundation of Orange Free
State
1857 launch of The Cape Argus
1866 establishment of The Argus Printing & Publishing
Company
1889 establishment of Johannesburg Consolidated Investment
Company (JCI)
1902 Boer Republics became British Crown Colonies
1902 William Gindra and Edward Green establish Caxton
printery in Pretoria
1910
establishment of the Union of South Africa
Rand Daily Mail
1902 Rand Daily Mail launched by Harry Freeman
Cohen
1904 Rand Daily Mail taken over by Abe Bailey
1906 launch of Johannesburg Sunday Times
1910 Argus, the Rand Daily Mail and Cape Times form partnership
with Reuters to establish local agency
1917 Anglo American Corporation founded by Sir Ernest
Oppenheimer
1926 Anglo American becomes largest single shareholder
in De Beers
the Express
1934 Sunday Express launched by Arthur Barlow
1935 Sunday Express acquired by I. W. Schlesinger
1935 Schlesinger relaunches Sunday Express in
Johannesburg
1935 Schlesinger launches Sunday Tribune in Durban
1937 launches daily Express and Tribune
1939 Argus, Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Times buy Schlesinger's
operations (Sunday Times gains Sunday Express, Argus gains
Sunday Tribune and Daily Express)
1939 Sunday Express acquired by Rand Daily Mail
1939 establishment of South African Press Association
1947 Caxton Ltd goes public
1948 National Party wins election
1950 Population Registration Act
Financial Mail
1951 African Drum founded by Jim Bailey
1953
Public Safety Act and Criminal Law Amendment Act
1959 Financial Mail launched by South African
Associated Newspapers (40%) and UK Financial
Times (50%)
1960 Sharpeville Massacre
1960 Imvo Zabantsundu (est 1884) acquired by
Perskor
1961 Caxton acquires The South African Jewish Times,
its first newspaper
1961 Anglo American buys stake in Hudson Bay Mining &
Smelting Company
1964 Sunday Express Ltd and Argus form 50/50 arrangement
to publish new Sunday Chronicle
1965 establishment of South African Associated Newspapers
(SAAN), inc Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express
1966 Sunday Times launches Business Times
1967 Anglo American establishes timber, pulp and paper
Mondi Group
1968 Caxton acquired by Felix Stark of Felstar Publications,
launches The Germiston Eagle as prototype community newspaper
1971 launches monthly free Blackheath Times, later launched
Sandton Chronicle, North Eastern Tribune, Northcliff and
Blackheath Times, Randburg Sun, Southern Courier, Mayfair-Brixton,
Newlands-Melville Telegraph, Rosebank Killarney Gazette
and the Roodepoort Record
1971 Afrikaans Sundays Die Beeld (Nasionale
Pers) and Dagbreek (Perskor) merge as jointly-owned
Rapport
1974 SAAN buys Financial Times stake for R180,000
1976 English language daily tabloid daily The Citizen
launched by Louis Luyt with funds from South African
government, subsequently sold to Perskor
1976 Soweto Uprising
1978 Terrence Moolman and Noel Coburn buy stake in Caxton
1978 Argus launches Post Transvaal
1979 agreement with Argus Group over printing operations
1984 Argus launches Sunday Star
1985 reverse take-over of CTP (Cape and Transvaal Printers)
1985 SAAN closes Rand Daily Mail and Sunday
Express
1987 Caxton buys KNL Web Printers in Isando from Nasionale
Pers and Barlows
1987 buys Solchem, largest SA supplier of newspaper ink
1987 Caxton and Argus Newspaper Group joint venture -
Newspaper Marketing Bureau (NMB) - to market print media
to national advertisers
TML
1987 South African Associated Newspapers formally changes
name to Times Media Ltd (TML)
1988 Caxton buys Horters Ltd printing and packaging group
1993 Anglo American and Minorco exit from Charter Consolidated
after Apartheid
1994 election of ANC government
1994 31% of Argus Group acquired by Tony O’Reilly's
INM from Anglo American, becomes Independent Newspapers
Holdings Ltd (INHL)
1995 Caxton unwinds links with Argus Group
1995 INHL and Caxton dissolve NMB partnership
1995 JCI becomes Johnnies Industrial Corporation Limited
when Anglo American Corporation splits JCI interests into
JCI (gold), Amplats (platinum) and Johnnic (industrial
and media)
1995 Caxton / CTP restructured under CTP banner and forms
partnership with National Empowerment Consortium (NEC)
1996 NEC buys 35% of Johnnic, which in turn owns 43% of
Omni Media Corporation (which has 92% of TML)
1997 INHL sells 42.5% stake in The Sowetan for
R62m
1997 TML sells 50% of BDFM (Business Day, Financial Mail
and African Business Channel) to Pearson
1998 merger of Caxton and Perskor
1998 Anglo American merges with Minorco to form Anglo
American plc
1998 TML and New Africa Publications launch Sunday
World
1999 Caxton Perskor sells City Press and Rapport
stake to Naspers
1999 INHL buys out minority shareholders in Argus
1999 TML launches and folds Sportsday
1999 TML sells 30% of Daily Dispatch to black
empowerment consortium Isivuno for R15m
2001 TML becomes Johnnic Publishing
2001 Anglo American unwinds cross-holding with De Beers
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