Week in, week out, Frans Hugo, the elderly editor has made the 1 200km round trip across the semi-arid Karoo region.
“Just as I was able to take a breath and relax, the man who owned the printers and the newspaper here in Calvinia came to ask me if I was interested in the business.”
His daughter and her husband got involved but tired and quit after a few months. “I’ve been sitting with this thing ever since,” he quipped. Helped by his wife and three assistants, he has kept alive some historic small-town titles at a time where many printed newspapers around the world are struggling to survive the digital age.The Messenger – previously known as the Victoria West Messenger – was founded in 1875, while Die Noordwester and Die Oewernuus started printing in the early 1900s.A general view of the Noordwester, the Messenger and the Oewernuus, offices in Calvinia on November 23, 2022.
Still, Hugo’s team prints about 1 300 copies a week, something he says shows an undying appetite for community news in the region. Francois Hugo, 89, lays out articles and photographs in the Noordwester, the Messenger and the Oewernuus, at the newspapers’ offices in Calvinia on November 23, 2022. The newspapers sell for R8 and are dropped off at shops, convenience stores and the correspondents’ homes.
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