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It moved the following year first to Du Toit’s Pan and then New Rush (later renamed Kimberley), and had a strongly anti-imperial view point. Another of the early papers was the pro-British Diamond News of R. W. Murray.[2]The Independent, owned by William Ling in 1876, was acquired by J. B. Robinson. By the late 1870s the success of the Independent had forced the Diamond Field to close, but with the Diamond Fields Advertiser then emerging as a third paper alongside the Diamond News and the Independent keeping local politicians on their toes in the turbulent years that followed.[3]During the Siege of Kimberley, the newspaper was the subject of a feud between Cecil Rhodes and garrison commander, Colonel Robert Kekewich. The local newspaper, which was under Rhodes’ control, ignored the military censor and printed information that compromised the military.[4][5] Kekewich obtained permission from his superior to place Rhodes under arrest if necessary.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Prominent journalists in Kimberley in the early years included R. W. Murray,[2] and F. Y. St Leger, later founder of the Cape Times.Editors of the DFA[edit][6]1878 \u2013 1884 Henry Tucker, secretary of the Kimberley mining board and one time Member of the Cape Parliament.1884 \u2013 1896 Robert Fisher Wilson, independent spirit and fearless writer. Went on to become editor of the Johannesburg Times.1896 \u2013 1898 Albert Cartwright. Went on to edit the SA News and the Johannesburg Times.1898 \u2013 1910 George AL Green, Rhodes’s ‘Prince of Journalists’. Went on to edit the Cape Argus.1910 \u2013 1923 Frank Ireland1923 \u2013 1932 Henry Lissant Collins1932 \u2013 1938 George A Simpson. Was one of Sol Plaatje’s pallbearers at his funeral at the West End cemetery.1938 \u2013 1939 Hastings H Beck1939 \u2013 1942 A Harrington1942 \u2013 1949 Rex Hall. Later helped to establish South Africa’s Iron and Steel Corporation.1949 \u2013 1959 David Brechin1959 \u2013 1962 Archie Atkinson1962 \u2013 1967 Conrad Lighton1967 \u2013 1977 Mike Lloyd1977 \u2013 1984 Graham Etherington1985 \u2013 1991 Anthony Ball1991 \u2013 1992 Charles Guild (acting)1992 \u2013 2002 Kevin Ritchie2002 \u2013 present Johan du Plessis[6]DFA today[edit]The Diamond Fields Advertiser, affectionately known to its readers as the DFA, outlived its rivals and has continued as a daily paper (although the Saturday edition was dropped in the late 1960s). Today it is a member of Independent News & Media.Readership stood at 108,000 in 2015, mainly in Kimberley and the surrounding region, with a distribution of 9,161 copies in Q1 2015.[7]Distribution areas[edit]Distribution[8]20082013Eastern CapeFree StateYGautengKwa-Zulu NatalLimpopoMpumalangaNorth WestNorthern CapeYYWestern CapeDistribution figures[edit]Circulation[9]Net SalesJan \u2013 Mar 20159 161[7]Jan \u2013 Mar 20149 754[7]Oct \u2013 Dec 20129 375July \u2013 Sep 20129 557Apr \u2013 Jun 20129 403Jan \u2013 Mar 20129 927Readership figures[edit]Estimated Readership[10][11]AIRJanuary \u2013 December 201276 000July 2011 \u2013 June 201276 000References[edit]^ du Toit, Anneke (10 September 2008). “A lot of news, a lot of newspapers”. Volksblad. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2015.^ a b Van Niekerk, F. (ed), Knights of the Shovel. Kimberley: Africana Library, 1996, pp. 86\u201387.^ Roberts, Brian, Kimberley, Turbulent City, Cape Town & Kimberley: David Philip and Historical Society of Kimberley and the Northern Cape, 1976, p. 173.^ “Siege of Kimberley\u2014Mr. Rhodes and Colonel Kekewich”. Hansard. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 22 March 1900. Retrieved 29 August 2009.^ “Censorship\u2014Diamond Fields Advertiser\u2014Mr. Rhodes and Col. Kekewich”. Hansard. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 11 June 1901. Retrieved 29 August 2009.^ a b Diamond Fields Advertiser Monday 23 March 1998 ‘Commemorative Edition’ p. 31^ a b c “ABC Analysis Q1 2015: The biggest-circulating newspapers in South Africa \u2022”. 8 May 2015.^ “DFA Website”. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2019.^ Audit Bureau of Circulations (S.A)^ SAARF AMPS (Previous Presentations)^ SAARF AMPS (Industry Presentations)External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/diamond-fields-advertiser-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Diamond Fields Advertiser – Wikipedia"}}]}]