Seipone Madireng is a fortnightly newspaper that is published in Sesotho sa
Leboa/Sepedi language. It started in August 2002 with seed funding from the Pan
South African Language Board (PanSALB). It was one of the two pilot newspaper
projects developed to establish newspapers written in all Indigenous South African
languages to fulfil the aspirations of the PanSALB Act.
The newspaper was established with the aim of fostering social cohesion between
mainly three ethnic groupings of Basotho sa Leboa / Bapedi, VhaTsonga, and
Vhavenda. Accordingly, Seipone became a trilingual newspaper that was published
in Sesotho sa Leboa/Sepedi, Xitsonga, and Tshivenda since 2002 until 2007 when
the newspaper switched to be written in one language – Sesotho sa Leboa/Sepedi.
The project aims to create a society of truly proud African people who can express
their pride through their language of Northern Sotho (Sepedi).
From 2008 until now the newspaper has been published as a fortnightly publication
in Sesotho sa Leboa / Sepedi. The newspaper has since developed its own website,
which can be accessed at https://seiponemadireng.co.za.