Insig

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Insig ("Insight") was an Afrikaans opinion-forming weekly journal.

Launched in August 1987 by Naspers, with Piet Muller and Cas van Rensburg as editors, it was clearly inspired by revered international journals such as The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel and so on, but in style closer to Time and Newsweek perhaps - especially in later years - it was .

The impulse to form such a journal had come from the closure of the highly regarded Afrikaans literary magazine Tydskrif vir Letterkunde on the one hand, and the rise of a number of independent journals such as the Suid-Afrikaan and the Vrye Weekblad on the other.

From the start it had a substantial and in-depth arts, culture and particulalry book division. Heavyweight writers such as André P. Brink, Hennie Aucamp and J.C. Kannemeyer counted among the early contributors.

In later years Insig followed a more news-focussed approach, and created a very popular online book review section.

It closed down in 2007, publishing its last issue on June 4th. The online book review section was picked up by LitNet.


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