A few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… 24 May 1915, soon after it had been decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name of the newspaper, De Burger ("The … on 26 July 1915. Die Burger was originally published in Dutch, but later in 1916, the first Afrikaans-language … articles were published. In 1921, the newspaper's Dutch title (De Burger) was translated into Afrikaans (Die …