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n media company Naspers. It controls Naspers'

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Southern African publishing and printing activities, including

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publishing of the 24.com collection of web portals. Media24 is

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's largest publisher, printer, and distributor of magazines and related products, as well its largest newspaper publisher. The company is headquartered in the Media24 Centre, in

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Background

Welkom Yizani

Welkom Yizani is a black empowerment share scheme launched by Media24 in September 2006. This scheme owns 15 percent of Media24, a subsidiary of Naspers Ltd. Media24 received R1.4 billion after the unbundeling of Novus Holdings in 2017. At the Media24/Welkom Yizani annual general meeting it was announced that shareholders will receive a special cash dividend of not less than R14.79 per Welkom Yizani ordinary share. In addition, the board declared an ordinary dividend of 42.5 cents per share.

Criticism

16 March 2018 Media24 agreed to pay R14 million as a settlement agreement with the Competition Commission after admitting to price fixing and fixing of trade conditions in the media industry.

Publications

Magazines

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Sarie ''Sarie'' is a South African women's magazine, written in Afrikaans. It is published by Media24, and is their oldest publication for women, first published in 1949 under the title ''Sarie Marais''. Based in Cape Town, it is the most popular ...

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Fair Lady ''Fair Lady'' is often considered as the sister publication to the Afrikaans ''Sarie''. With their offices in Cape Town, this title is one of the most popular female reads in South Africa. History and profile ''Fair Lady'' was established in 1965 ...

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'' *'' Women's Health'' (South African edition) *'' Men's Health'' (South African edition) *'' Kuier''

Newspapers

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Beeld ''Beeld'' (freely translated as ''Picture'' or ''Image'') is an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. ''Beeld'' is distributed in four provinces of South Africa: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West, pr ...

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Daily Sun The ''Daily Sun'' is the largest daily newspaper in South Africa. ''Daily Sun'' may also refer to the following newspapers: United States * ''Arizona Daily Sun'', Flagstaff, Arizona * ''Bowdoin Daily Sun'', Connecticut, published by Bowdoin Colleg ...

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Die Burger ''Die Burger'' (English: The Citizen) is a daily Afrikaans-language newspaper, published by Naspers. By 2008, it had a circulation of 91,665 in the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa. Along with ''Beeld'' and ''Volksblad'', it is ...

'' * '' The Witness'' * ''

Volksblad The ''Volksblad'' (English: People's Journal) is an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper published in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and distributed in the Free State and Northern Cape provinces, where it is the largest Afrikaans daily. It is South ...

'' * '' Son op Sondag''

Online Publications

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Local sold newspapers

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'' * '' Hermanus Times'' * '' District Mail'' * '' Eikestadnuus'' * '' Worcester Standard'' * '' Weslander''

Local free newspapers

* ''Uitenhage Despatch News'' * ''PE Express'' * ''Kouga Express'' * ''Umthatha Express'' * ''Queenstown Express'' * ''Tygerburger'' * ''People's Post''

Books

* NB Publishers * Via Afrika * Collegium * Van Schaik Publishers * Jonathan Ball Publishers

TV channels

VIA

VIA is a 24-hour Afrikaans lifestyle channel that celebrates ordinary people and the world they inhabit. Its wide selection of original programmes – from food shows to true-life dramas and nail-biting reality entertainment – is the reason why VIA is the first choice in lifestyle television in numerous households. Via is available on

MultiChoice MultiChoice is a South African company that operates DStv, a major satellite television service in Sub-Saharan Africa and GOtv, a minor service operating in over 9 countries of this area and Showmax service. MultiChoice was formed out of the sub ...

DStv Digital Satellite Television, commonly abbreviated to DStv, is a Sub-Saharan African direct broadcast satellite service owned by MultiChoice and based in Randburg, South Africa. Launched on 6 October 1995, the service provides multiple audio, ...

platform on channel 147 since 9 November 2015.

Honey

Honey is a bold and unscripted lifestyle TV channel created and connected for Africans. It has a mix from lifestyle to reality, food, and culture across the African Continent.Media24
HONEY
Retrieved 3 July 2021. The channel is available on

platform on channel 173 since 15 February 2021.

References

External links

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