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
The Rapport has sponsored a number of awards in the arts over the years, including book awards and what is generally referred to in the media (including the Rapport newspaper) as the Rapport Oscar (alternatively also the Rapport-Oscar or the Rapport Oskar) for film work.
Inaugurated in 1975, the Rapport Oscar Awards were made in collaboration with the film industry, three major film production companies (Kinekor, Ster and Film-Trust) and the University of Pretoria. There were seven categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film (awarded to the director), Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Newcomer, Best Script and Best Cinematography.
The first gala awards ceremony took place in the newly built Kine Centre in Johannesburg and would thereafter be held as an annual gala event.
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.
Pieter J. Fourie (Ed.). 2001. Media Studies: Institutions, theories, and issues. Juta and Company Ltd.
"Wie kry die Rapport-Oscar?", in the Tydskrif-Rapport, 3 August, 1975: p. 12
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