Rapport

Rapport ("Report") is an Afrikaans-language Sunday newspaper

The newspaper

Founded in 1970 when Die Beeld (then a Sunday newspaper) merged with Dagbreek to become Rapport. (Die Beeld re-emerged in 1974 as a daily newspaper.)

Rapport later became part of the Media24 stable and has long been the second largest Sunday newspaper in South Africa after the Sunday Times.

Along with many other publications in the Media24 group, the Rapport ceased print publication in 2025, appearing only as a digital publication on the Media24 site.

The arts coverage

Rapport has had a long and respected national role in arts criticism, through supplements like Rapport Boeke (late called Rapport Weekliks), Rapport-Tydskrif (or sometimes Tydskrif-Rapport), with numerous eminent Afrikaans authors, critics and academics writing for it.

Awards for the arts

Publication awards

The Rapport has sponsored a number of awards in the arts over the years, including various book awards.

The Rapport Oscars

Particularly relevant for this encyclopaedia are the Rapport Oscars, which refers to a set of seven statuettes, each known as a Rapport Oscar (also written Rapport-Oscar or Rapport Oskar in Afrikaans), awarded for excellence in film production.

An initiative of the Rapport, these awards were inaugurated in 1975 by the Rapport newspaper, in collaboration with the film industry, three major film production companies (Kinekor, Ster and Film-Trust) and the University of Pretoria, and were instituted to annually recognize and reward excellence in South African film making over the previous twelve months.

The original seven award categories were: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film (awarded to the director), Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Newcomer, Best Script and Best Cinematography. Each winner receives a bronze statuette known as the Rapport Oscar, cast from a wooden original designed and made by Pretoria sculptor Justinus van der Merwe.

The first judging panel, picked from a range of experts from various sub-disciplines, consisted of Hennie Aucamp, Annie Basson, Ampie Coetzee, William Egan, Ian Ferguson, Robert Mohr, Anna Neethling-Pohl, Kobus Scholtz, Coenie Slabber, Wilna Snyman, Verna Vels and Herculene Visser.

The first gala awards ceremony took place in the newly built Kine Centre in Johannesburg on 20 September, 1975 and would thereafter be held as an annual gala event at various venues.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapport_(newspaper)

Marenet Jordaan. 2014. "Poke me, I'm a journalist: The impact of Facebook and Twitter on newsroom routines and cultures at two South African weeklies". In: Chris Paterson (ed.). Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation. Routledge.

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"Rapport-Oscar maak SA se film-mense haastig", in the Tydskrif-Rapport, 29 June, 1975: p. 12

"Wie kry die Rapport-Oscar?", in the Tydskrif-Rapport, 3 August, 1975: p. 12

"Top-span wys wenners aan van 1975 se Rapport-Oscar", in the Rapport, 10 August,1975: p. 18

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