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The Southern African Times

The Southern African Times is a regional bloc digital newspaper that covers Southern African and the world news. The paper also gives a nuanced analysis on news and covers a wide range of reporting which include sports, entertainment, foreign affairs, arts and culture.

The papers website will be free to read in the short term but in future will be a subscriber-only providing investigative journalism and much more. This paper intends to be a high-quality digital daily edition packed with news analysis and opinion that is published every weekday at 5am. The paper will release an annual magazine that will cover highlights of the year and include interviews with public officials around the world. The magazine will be distributed locally and internationally with free copy’s sent out to advertisers and high-end subscribers.

In addition, the paper will have visual content that will include reporting on politics, arts, sports, travel and general short clip reports on key global issues. Moreover, as part of the paper’s broader strategy of reshaping the reportage on African affairs, it will also host public conferences with speakers from African based corporations, investors, SMEs, tech start-ups, politicians and diplomats. With the objective of elucidating the complex systematic issues that impede the continents developmental strategies.

The subject matters covered in these conferences will be wide ranging from wildlife to climate change as well as the emergence of AI. The Southern African Times currently falls under relevant press regulations and has signed up to the official UK press regulator IPSO and is recognised by media groups such the NUJ and the IFJ.

The Executive board of the paper deemed crucial as to ensure that the paper’s prime objective of being the authority on regional issues will ensure that the paper adhers to international journalistic practice.

Objective

The paper intends to be a change catalyst on the reportage of African based news by providing a more nuanced approach to reporting. It will be non-partisan in nature providing a pluralistic method of reporting whose thrust will highlight cultural context and avoid racial biases through its editorial team’s composition. Wherein, African representation within Europe and North America has been predominately negative.

The Southern African Times deems its approach as one that will bring the continent on the world stage through reporting that is thorough and competent. We believe that such a paper will explicate the complexities as to avoid the African continent being relegated to the backwater of the news.

The African story has been told by news outlets that are pro-western and it is high time for the African story to be told from an African analysis that is objective and from a localised view point. Conversely, advertising discounts will be given to Africa entrepreneurs black or white, business news and talent development making the news site a source of upcoming enterprises for investors.