The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser

The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser was South Africa's first newspaper, it was founded on 16 August, 1800 by two slave dealers, Alexander Walker and John Robertson. (Sometimes referred to simply as The Cape Town Gazette). Articles in English and Dutch.

The title was changed briefly in 1803 to De Kaapsche Courant, as the Dutch had just taken the Colony from the British in 1802.

When the British reoccupied the Colony in 1806, the English title was restored, but with the addition of the Dutch title, so now read ponderously as The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser = Kaapsche Stads Courant en Afrikaansche Berigter,  a cumbersome usage that continued till 1826.

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