SA Media SA Media is an exclusive news research tool offering press clippings for researchers in academic, government and corporate markets. This product offers full-text coverage of the major South African news media.

The SA Media service is unique in that it offers a press clipping service covering 39 of the mainstream publications in South Africa from 1978 to date. At the moment, we have over 4,5 million news articles in the archive, a number that will grow by about 2500 selected news articles per week. The selection is based on specific subjects.

When you subscribe annually to this service, you can be sure that you have one of the most comprehensive tools available when searching in all mainstream local publications on any topic. All the articles are full text and every word in every article is searchable. We have recently started adding all the images and photographs in full colour to give you the original article for your research.

You can search an array of newspaper sources and download them in PDF format for easy printing and archiving.

Currently we cover 19 daily publications, 17 weekend publications, two weekly publications and one monthly publication. Sabinet’s in-house Digitisation department scans and indexes the selected articles daily. Here is a list of the SA news sources we have available.

BEELD FINANCIAL MAIL SUNDAY ARGUS BURGER MAIL AND GUARDIAN SUNDAY INDEPENDENT BUSINESS DAY PRETORIA NEWS SUNDAY SUN CAPE ARGUS PRETORIA NEWS WEEKEND SUNDAY TIMES AND TIME CAPE TIMES RAPPORT SUNDAY TRIBUNE CITIZEN SATURDAY ARGUS SUNDAY WORLD CITIZEN SATURDAY SATURDAY THE EP HERALD CITY PRESS SATURDAY DISPATCH THE NEW AGE DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY INDEPENDENT THE TIMES DAILY NEWS SATURDAY STAR DAILY SUN SATURDAY VOLKSBLAD WEEKEND POST DIAMOND FIELDS ADVERTISER SOWETAN WEEKEND WITNESS DITSEM VRYSTAAT STAR NATAL WITNESS

Please note:  There is a four week delay between the newspaper publication dates and the date on which the articles from these newspapers are loaded into SA Media.  No articles for the period 1 January 2015 to 31 May 2015 are included in SA Media at present. This is the period from when the University of the Free State stopped adding articles to SA Media until the time Sabinet took over the SA Media archive.

For more information please contact Client Services on: [email protected]

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