Die Republikein is an Afrikaans-language newspaper published daily in Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

 and the second largest newspaper in terms of print circulation . Current Editor in Chief is Chris Jacobie.

History

It was founded in December 1977 by the Republican Party of Namibia

Republican Party (Namibia)

The Republican Party was a political party in Namibia, based among the white minority. Henk Mudge is its President and its sole representative in the National Assembly. Prior to the 2004 parliamentary election, the Republican Party was part of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance . It was revived as...

 with the first editor being Johannes Petrus Spies. The paper was later supported by the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a merger of several parties. In 1991, Die Republikein was bought by the Democratic Media Holdings. After several disputes between DTA and DMH during the 1990s, the media house broke with the DTA in 1997 and aspires to increase editorial independence since.

Online Edition

Die Republikein offers an online edition of the newspaper, which mainly reflected the contents of the print version, but is complemented with additional contents such as video material. In August 2011, Die Republikein Online had around 65.000 unique page visitis

Language Policy

Die Republikein targets mainly the Afrikaans-speaking population in Namibia, including those who use the former offcial language as second language. As a pragmatic way to save recources and due to the multilingual situation, the newspaper has started to also publish English language news, especially when it comes to economic as well as African and international news.