Vrye Weekblad was a groundbreaking progressive, anti-apartheid Afrikaans national weekly newspaper that was launched in November 1988 and forced to close in February 1994. The paper was driven into bankruptcy by the legal costs of defending its charge that South African Police General Lothar Neethling had supplied poison to security police to kill activists.
It was relaunched in a digital format in April 2019 by the Tiso Blackstar Group, with Max du Preez returning as editor and Jacques Pauw now as co-editor, joined by Anneliese Burgess also as co-editor.