{{Expand Afrikaans|topic=hist|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Die Transvaler | logo = | image = Die Transvaler Referendum.JPG | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = | owners = Voortrekkerpers | publisher = Voortrekkerpers | editor = Hendrik Verwoerd | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = 1937 | political_position = Afrikaner nationalism | language = Afrikaans | ceased_publication = 1987 | headquarters = Johannesburg | circulation = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | oclc = | website = }}
'''''Die Transvaler''''' ({{literal|The Transvaalian}}) was a South African newspaper founded in 1937 with the aim of promoting Afrikaner nationalism and supporting the Transvaal branch of the National Party.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsTSXIhG2sgC&q=die+transvaler+newspaper&pg=PA67|title=Media Studies: Institutions, theories, and issues|last=Fourie|first=Pieter Jacobus|date=2001|publisher=Juta and Company Ltd|isbn=9780702156557|language=en}}</ref> Hendrik Verwoerd was its first editor.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/hendrik-frensch-verwoerd|title=Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd|last=Anonymous|date=2011-02-17|work=South African History Online|access-date=2017-09-21}}</ref>
==History == On 1 October 1937, ''Nasionale Pers'' set up the company ''Voortrekkerpers'' in the Transvaal to support the National Party in Transvaal by publishing ''Die Transvaler''.<ref name="OMera">{{Cite book|last1=Davies|first1=Rob|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0862322561_2/|title=The Struggle for South Africa.|last2=O'Meara|first2=Dan|last3=Dlamini|first3=Sipho|publisher=Zed Books|year=1984|isbn=0862322561|volume=2|location=London|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>{{rp|411}}<ref name=Stan01/> Initially the Cape National Party tried to control the extremism of the National Party in the Transvaal by appointing Hendrik Verwoerd as the papers first editor but he would side with Transvaal branch and ''Nationale Pers'' gave up editorial control in 1939.<ref name=OMera/>{{rp|411}}
===Editors===
Source:<ref name="Stan01">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/standardencyclop0010unse |title=Standard encyclopaedia of Southern Africa / 10 Sle - Tun |publisher=Nasou |year=1974 |isbn=978-0-625-00326-6 |location=Cape Town |pages=615}}</ref>
* H.F. Verwoerd (1937-1948) * J.J. Kruger (1948-1960) * G.D. Sholtz (1960-1968) * C.F. Nöffke (1969-1973) * Willem Johannes de Klerk (1973-1987)<ref>{{Cite web |title=BIOGRAFIESE SKETSE VAN MEDIAMENSE – Mediamense |url=https://mediamense.com/biosketse-van-mediamense/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |language=af}}</ref> During World War II, Die Transvaler had triumphantly headlined every Nazi victory and constantly attacked "British Jewish liberalism." In 1943, Verwoerd sued the English-language newspaper ''The Star'' for libel after it accused him of being a Nazi propagandist. In his judgment dismissing the case, Justice Mallin stated that Verwoerd "did support Nazi propaganda; he did make his newspaper a tool of the Nazis in South Africa, and he knew it."<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1958-09-15 |title=SOUTH AFRICA: God's Man |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,863800,00.html |access-date=2024-02-04 |magazine=Time |language=en-US |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>
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