Media24 is a South African

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company with interests in digital media and services, newspapers, magazines, ecommerce, publishing, television, logistics, and distribution. Established in 2000, and owned by

Naspers Naspers Limited (until 1998 Die Nasionale Pers) is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town. The company has interests in online retail, publishing, real estate, and ventu ...

, the company is headquartered in the Media24 Centre, in the

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Background

Welkom Yizani

Welkom Yizani is a 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 unbundling 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. Shareholders of Welkom Yizani accepted Media24’s cash offer to buy out all the shares at a special general meeting held on 22 January 2021. The transaction has been concluded, Welkom Yizani was delisted from the Equity Express Securities Exchange (EESE) and the scheme has been unwound.

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

Media24 publishes across assorted mediums, under a wide variety of names, including:

Magazines

*''Baba & Kleuter'' *''Fairlady'' *''Huisgenoot'' *''Kuier'' *''Landbouweekblad'' *''Lose It'' *''Man Magnum'' *''SA Jagter'' *''SARIE'', ''SARIE Bruid'', and ''SARIE Kos'' *''Tuis/Home'' *''TvPlus'' *''Weg!/go!'', ''Weg! Platteland/go! Platteland'', and ''WegRY & Sleep / go! Drive & Camp'' *''YOU'' *''Your Baby & Pregnancy''

Newspapers

* ''

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, ...

'' * ''Bloemnuus/news'' * ''Breederivier Gazette'' * ''City Press'' * ''City Vision'' * ''

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 Coll ...

'' * ''

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 ...

'' * ''District Mail & Helderberg Gazette'' * ''Eikestadnuus'' * ''Express'' * ''Hermanus Times'' * ''Isolomzi Express'' * ''Kouga Express'' * ''Mid-Karoo Express'' * ''Mthatha Express'' * ''Noordkaap Express'' * ''Paarl Post'' * ''Rapport'' * ''Son'' * ''Swartland Gazette'' * ''TygerBurger'' * ''UD Express'' * ''Vista'' * ''

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

'' * ''VrystaatKroon'' * ''Weskus Nuus'' * ''Weslander''

Online publications

* '' News24'', Netwerk24, and Careers24 * Business Insider

Books

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

TV channels

VIA

VIA is a 24-hour Afrikaans lifestyle channel. Via is available on

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's DStv platform on channel 147 since 9 November 2015.

Honey

Honey is a lifestyle TV channel. It has a mix from lifestyle to reality, food, and culture across the African continent. The channel was available on

's DStv platform on channel 173 from 15 February 2021 until 31 October 2023.

References

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