Ilanga lase Natal

{{Short description|First Zulu/English newspaper}}

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Ilanga lase Natal (The Natal Sun or Sun of Natal) is a Zulu-language newspaper, published in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was the first ever newspaper to be published in the language. It was co-founded in 1903 by John Langalibalele Dube.McCracken, Donal P., [https://books.google.com/books?id=UGFQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA136 "The imperial British newspaper with special reference to South Africa, India and the 'Irish model'"], in {{cite book|editor-first=Ruth |editor-last=Teer-Tomaselli |editor2= Donal P. McCracken|title=Media and the Empire|year=2016|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon|isbn=978-1-317-29149-7|pages=122–142 (p. 136)}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ilanga-lase-Natal|title = Ilanga lase Natal | South African newspaper | Britannica}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn88088651/|title=Ilanga lase Natal|website=Library of Congress}} Among its contributors was Magema Magwaza Fuze.Mokoena, Hlonipha, [https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA403 "Fuze, Magema"], in {{cite book|editor-link=Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong |editor-first=Emmanuel Kwaku |editor-last=Akyeampong|editor2= Henry Louis Gates Jr. |title=Dictionary of African Biography|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press. Vol. 2|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-538207-5|pages=403–405}} It is owned by the investment arm of the Inkatha Freedom Party.{{cite news |last=Moodie|first=Gill|date=18 August 2010|title=isiZulu papers' success highlight gap in the market |url=https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/90/51181.html |work=Bizcommunity |location= |access-date=}}