TimesLIVE
TimesLIVE is the online news platform associated with South Africa's Sunday Times and other Arena Holdings titles. It delivers English-language reporting on national politics, business, sport, and current affairs. As the digital home of long-established South African newspaper journalism, it is widely read for in-depth news and investigative coverage.
TimesLIVE at a glance
- Country
- South Africa
- Region
- Southern Africa · Africa
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- timeslive.co.za ↗
- Preview
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How Crosswire groups TimesLIVE
Crosswire groups TimesLIVE as Centrist for comparisons within South Africa's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In South Africa, Mail & Guardian is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open TimesLIVE beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where TimesLIVE sits in South Africa's press
TimesLIVE is one of 6 outlets tracked in South Africa, and one of 2 daily newspapers among them — the other being Mail & Guardian. By outlets tracked, South Africa ranks first of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.
Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 73 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to TimesLIVE outside South Africa, starting with Southern Africa, are Mmegi (Botswana), Eswatini Observer (Eswatini), Lesotho Times (Lesotho) and The Nation (Malawi). Opening one of them beside TimesLIVE is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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