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''The Sunday Times'' is South Africa's biggest Sunday newspaper. Established in 1906, the Sunday Times is distributed all over South Africa and in neighbouring countries such as Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland. ==History== The Sunday Times was first published on 4 February 1906 as a weekly, sister publication of the Rand Daily Mail which at the time was ‘standing alone’ against its rival Transvaal Leader. Founding editor George Herbert Kingswell introduced the slogan ‘A paper for the People’. It was later changed to The Paper for the People’, a slogan that is still in use today. For the first edition of the paper, published on 4 February 1906, 11 600 copies were printed and soon sold out, forcing the paper to print an additional 5000 copies. By November 1909 the paper sales had risen to 35 000. In 1992, the former columnist Jani Allan sued the British broadcaster Channel 4 for libel over affair allegations involving her and Eugene Terre'Blanche.〔(Channel 4 sued ) The Independent. 21 July 1992〕 Allan had previously interviewed the AWB leader for the ''Sunday Times''. Allan had already settled out of court with the ''London Evening Standard'' and ''Options'' magazine over similar allegations.〔(Jani Allan fights on despite 300,000 pounds libel costs ) The Independent. 6 August 1992〕 The then-news editor of the newspaper, the late Marlene Burger〔(Marlene Burger: Legendary news editor ) Sunday Times. 3 May 2009〕 and newspaper astrologer Linda Shaw〔(Courtroom 14: the Owl has landed ) The Independent. 25 July 1992〕 testified against Allan. Prior to the libel suit, Allan had published articles for the newspaper dismissing the affair allegations.〔Allan, Jani.''The REAL story of me and ET and the SAP'', Sunday Times, 2 January 1989, p.1〕 Allan also allowed the newspaper to publish answerphone messages left by Terre'Blanche as well as her threats of taking legal action against Terre'Blanche for nuisance contact.〔Terre Blanche scandal: "Darlinkie" phone plea claim. The Times. 31 July 1989〕 Allan lost the case; the judge ruled that she had not been defamed but did not conclude whether or not an affair had taken place.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Century of Sundays )〕 The case became notorious for violence and a dirty tricks campaign.〔(Jani Allan Libel Case: Shadow of violence hung over trial ) The Independent. 6 August 1992〕〔(Four dirty tricks they played during the Jani Allan case: Nick Cohen and David Connett in London and Chris McGreal in Johannesburg peer into the murky background surrounding last week's Jani Allan libel case ) The Independent. 9 August 1992〕 Publications such as the ''Financial Mail'' and Allan herself speculated that the defence witnesses were paid by the De Klerk regime in an attempt to destabilise the far-right in South Africa.〔(article ). Financial Mail. 6 August 1992〕 Shaw recounted her editor, Ken Owen's reaction to the case "When I came back from London. Owen stood in the middle of the newsroom and said: 'You have single-handedly destroyed the reputation of every journalist in the country and we have become the laughing stock." On 13 November 2005, ''The Sunday Times'' broke the story that the African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma was being investigated on rape charges. It was reported that Jacob Zuma considered legal action against the publication, although it later emerged that an investigation was in fact under way. On 6 December 2005, official rape charges were filed against Jacob Zuma. Zuma would later be acquitted of rape. On 5 November 2007 it was reported that a consortium containing some senior government figures had launched a bid to purchase 100% of Avusa (previously Johncom), the company that owned ''The Sunday Times''.〔(The Guardian )〕 In March 2007, Zuma sued the paper for 6 million Rand over two columns by popular columnist David Bullard. The two columns, "Stupidity a mitigating circumstance for Zuma", published on 16 April 2006, and "Visit the Zuma website to see what was meant" (7 May 2006) were cited by Zuma as defamatory and an "impairment of his dignity".〔The Arms Deal Virtual Press Office http://www.armsdeal-vpo.co.za/articles10/slur.html〕 Although David Bullard was found to be operating within the ethical bounds of ''The Sunday Times'' regarding the two columns, he would later fall out of favour with Editor Mondli Makhanya. On 10 April 2008 Bullard was fired from ''The Sunday Times'' after the publication of a column on 6 April 2008 ((Uncolonised Africa wouldn’t know what it was missing )) received stern protest from several political parties. The editor apologised for the column, saying "by publishing him (Bullard) we were complicit in disseminating his Stone Age philosophies".〔The Times http://www.thetimes.co.za/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=747138〕 In September 2008, ''The Sunday Times'' was again vigorously attacked for publishing a highly controversial piece, this time in the form of a cartoon by critically acclaimed cartoonist Jonathon Shapiro (Zapiro). The cartoon depicted Jacob Zuma getting ready to rape the Justice System while being assisted by the leaders of various ANC and political factions and parties. Zapiro denied any ambiguity between Jacob Zuma's depiction as a rapist in the cartoon and his earlier rape trial. ''The Sunday Times'' and its editor were slated by various ANC officials. A joint press release by the ANC, the South African Communist Party and the ANC Youth League lambasted ''The Sunday Times'' editor, describing him as a ''dictator'', and called for his replacement: "We can only hope that the newspaper will find a suitable leadership other than the ranting dictator who finds joy in manipulating the truth."〔Official ANC Web page http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?doc=ancdocs/pr/2008/pr0908.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Sunday Times (South Africa)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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