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Cape Times
The Cape Times front page of 19 September 2008
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Independent News and Media
Editor	Tyrone August
News editor	Tony Weaver
Sports editor	Ian Smit
Founded	1876
Headquarters	Newspaper House, Cape Town, South Africa
Circulation	47 514
Sister newspapers	Cape Argus
Official website	www.capetimes.co.za

The Cape Times is an English language morning newspaper owned by Independent News and Media and published in Cape Town, South Africa. The first edition of the newspaper was published in 1876 by then editor Frederick York St Leger. Its primary target was the poor working class, as it attempted to expose early government corruption.

As of 2009 the newspaper had a daily readership of 272 000 and a circulation of 47 514.^[1]