Mr Louis Luyt bought more than a million copies of The Citizen during his 18-month association with the newspaper

The main core of the information scandal in the 1970s was the secret funding of an English language newspaper using taxpayers� money. Fertilizer magnate, Louis Luyt, acted as a government front and the Citizen newspaper was born. It soon found itself in financial trouble and advertisers were aghast to read a report in the Rand Daily Mail that 30,000 copies of the Citizen were being dumped and claimed as valid circulation figures. Description provided by Tony Grogan.