Beeld

Beeld
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Naspers
Publisher	Media24
Editor-in-chief	Barnard Beukman
Sports editor	Gert van der Westhuizen
Founded	16 September 1974
Language	Afrikaans
Headquarters	Johannesburg
Sister newspapers	Die Burger, Volksblad
Website	www.beeld.com

Beeld (freely translated as Picture or Image) is an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. Beeld is distributed in four provinces of South Africa: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West, previously part of the former Transvaal province. Die Beeld (English: The Image) was an Afrikaans-language Sunday newspaper in the late 1960s.

In June 2024 Naspers announced that it would close the newspaper, along with City Press, Rapport, and the Daily Sun, in October of that year due to declining newspaper sales.^[1] A month later Media24 announced it will suspend the planned closures until the Competition Commission approves of its plan to sell newspaper distribution company On-The-Dot to Novus, which was the reason behind the papers' planned shuttering.^[2]

Supplements

Sake (Mon-Fri)^[3]
Motors (Thur)^[3]
Vrydag (Fri)^[3]

List of editors

Schalk Pienaar (1974–1975)
Johannes Grosskopf (1975–1977)
Ton Vosloo (1977–1983)
Willem Wepener (1983–1989)
Salie de Swardt (1989–1992)
Willie Kühn (1993–1996)
Johan de Wet (1996–1999)
Arrie Rossouw (1999–2000)
Peet Kruger (2000–2009)
Tim du Plessis (2009–2011)
Peet Kruger (2011–2013)
Adriaan Basson (2013–2015)
Barnard Beukman (2015–present)

Distribution areas

Distribution^[4]
	2008	2014
Eastern Cape
Free State	Y	Y
Gauteng	Y	Y
Kwa-Zulu Natal	Y	N
Limpopo	Y	Y
Mpumalanga	Y	Y
North West	Y	Y

Distribution figures

Circulation^[5]
	Net Sales
2000	100 000^[1]
Oct – Dec 2012	66 132
Jul – Sep 2012	70 070
Apr – Jun 2012	73 595
Jan – Mar 2012	75 019
Oct – Dec 2013	64 874
Jul – Sep 2013	64 329
Apr – Jun 2013	64 073
Jan – Mar 2013	67 700
Jan – Mar 2014	62 766^[6]
Apr – Jun 2014	59 544
Jan – Mar 2015	51 064^[6]
2024	20 000^[1]