Mail & Guardian

The M&G is a quality, investigative and comment news publication, based on a culture of editorial independence and excellence. The publication was started as an alternative newspaper by a group of journalists in 1985 after the closure of two leading liberal newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express. It was originally known as the Weekly Mail. The paper was renamed the Weekly Mail & Guardian on 30 July 1993. The London-based Guardian Media Group (GMG), publishers of The Guardian, became the majority shareholder of the print edition in 1995, and the name was changed to Mail & Guardian.