{"id":852475,"date":"2026-02-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=852475"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:04:32","slug":"end-of-an-era-for-44-year-old-south-african-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/852475\/end-of-an-era-for-44-year-old-south-african-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era for 44-year-old South African icon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

City Press is officially closing its doors, with Media24 launching a consultation process for its existing staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Press is one of South Africa’s best-known publications, with a history dating back to 1982. It was founded by Jim Bailey\u00a0and the South African Associated Newspapers\u00a0to serve black readers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publication was a key anti-apartheid voice and would be acquired by Naspers in 1984. Naspers is South Africa’s most valuable company, and owns Takealot and Media24. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last few years have been tough for the publication, with falling circulation forcing it to become the only publication in December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, News24<\/a>, which is a sister publication of City Press, has now confirmed that City Press will close its doors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We can confirm that we started consultations with the City Press staff this [Friday] morning, with the intention of closing this newsroom,” said Minette Ferreira, CEO of Media24. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As a digital newsroom, incorporated into News24 after the closure of the print edition in 2024 as part of our transformation into a digitally led business, City Press did not meet our expectations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Press currently has over two dozen employees, and Media24 has stated it will try to limit job losses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media24 has been on a significant shift in its newsroom, with Beeld, Rapport, Daily Sun and Volksblad all closing their print editions in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Press was housed in News24, while Daily Sun became a digital-only publication. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City Press is closing down in South Africa, with Media24 looking to limit job losses at the iconic publication. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":852477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[5018,6944],"class_list":["post-852475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-city-press","tag-media24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852483,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852475\/revisions\/852483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}