When Naspers, Africa’s biggest media company, recently acquired online video-on-demand ShowMax, some pundits questioned why they had done it. They wondered about the wisdom of this move cons... Read more
The Financial Times, one of the great global journalism institutions, has been sold by the Pearson Group to the Japanese media company Nikkei. Anton Harber takes a look at what this means. T... Read more
Ton Vosloo has retired after 59 years of service to Naspers media group. He joined as a cub reporter in 1956, and left the company as its non executives chairman on Friday. Koos Bekker retur... Read more
Two major events that took place last week are set to change the business of media in South Africa. The first was an announcement from Times Media Group that it would be leaving the Johannes... Read more
Naspers appears to be a company comfortable with contradiction. On the one hand, it owns Media24, the largest independent media group in South Africa and a vocal critic of any attempts to re... Read more
I received an email from a colleague this week asking me to sign a petition against local cellular networks taking 50% profit from revenue generated by SMS text messaging in aid of charity.... Read more
