Riaan Cruywagen, born on 5 October 1945, is a South African television news reader and voice artist who has been associated with the South African Broadcasting Corporation since its first television broadcasts in 1975. Since then, Cruywagen has presented the Afrikaans news on the SABC network every weeknight. His final broadcast on SABC 2 went out on 26 November 2012 at 7pm CAT. He has 7000 news broadcasts under his belt and is seen as a generation's guiding voice through South Africa's turbulent modern times.