The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa that was established in 1887.

The paper is distributed mainly in Gauteng and other provinces such as Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West, and Free State.

For many years, The Star was owned by the Argus Printing & Publishing Company, controlled by the Anglo American Corporation.

[1] The Irish Independent News & Media (INM) bought and renamed the Argus in the early 1990s.

It was founded in Grahamstown under that title on 6 January 1871 (as a resurrection of the previous Great Eastern paper), and was moved to the Witwatersrand sixteen years later by its owners, brothers Thomas and George Sheffield.