Perskor

From the second week of February 1983, Die Transvaler moved as an afternoon paper to Pretoria, where Perskor's morning paper, Oggendblad (which sold only 5,828 copies on weekdays from July to December 1981), and its afternoon paper, Hoofstad (which sold 13,628 copies on weekdays in the same period, compared to the English-language Pretoria News' 24,876 copies on weekdays), were incorporated into Die Transvaler. This left Beeld as the only Afrikaans morning paper in Johannesburg, although it was also distributed in Pretoria and elsewhere in the Transvaal, and Die Vaderland as Johannesburg's Afrikaans afternoon paper. After Die Transvaler and Die Vaderland were readmitted to the ABC, their weekday sales figures for the period July to December 1981 were 44,109 and 40,998 respectively, compared to Beeld's 67,963.[1] The Rand Daily Mail fell to 106,759 during that period, 5,000 fewer than the then two Afrikaans morning newspapers, but Beeld would only be able to maintain a circulation of more than 100,000 on its own for a full year in 1988.

On 10 February 1983, Die Vaderland wrote that the market division was inevitable. "It was a rational and logical step and it was done in the broad interest of Transvaal Afrikaners." Just over five years later, further rationalization came when Die Vaderland ceased to exist in October 1988 after 52 years and was merged with Die Transvaler. This newspaper also disappeared five years later. Although Beeld was able to maintain a circulation of more than 100,000 for a long time, the newspaper could never come anywhere close to the combined circulation of the then five Afrikaans dailies in the Transvaal of more than 170,000.