Newspaper to fold
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg The "Rand Daily Mail,” the country’s leading opposition paper and a consistent critic of apartheid will publish for the last time on April 30. South African Associated Newspapers said that the “Mail” had accumulated losses of 45.5 million rand ($52 million) over the last 10 years. A front-page editorial on Saturday in the 83-year-old newspaper said: "... A bridge between races, one of the few in the country, is being swept away.” The “Mail” said it was ironic that the paper was to close just as South Africa seemed ready at last to grasp the nettle of reform and make changes that the paper had been urging for a 25 years. The “Star,” South Africa’s biggest-selling daily, said: “The death of the ‘Rand Daily Mail,’ is the saddest blow to journalism this century.” The “Mail” was established in 1902 with Edgar Wallace, who later won fame as a crime fiction writer, as its first editor.
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