Media24

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Media24 is a South African mass media company with interests in digital media and services, newspapers, magazines, ecommerce, publishing, television, logistics, and distribution.

Established in 2000, and owned by Naspers, the company is headquartered in the Media24 Centre, in the Foreshore, Cape Town.[1]

Background

Welkom Yizani

Welkom Yizani is a share scheme launched by Media24 in September 2006.[2] 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.[3]

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.Template:Fact

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.[4]

Publications

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The Media24 Centre (previously named the Naspers building) in Cape Town, 2015

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
  • Bloemnuus/news
  • Breederivier Gazette
  • City Press
  • City Vision
  • Daily Sun
  • Die Burger
  • 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
  • VrystaatKroon
  • Weskus Nuus
  • Weslander

Online publications

  • News24, Netwerk24, and Careers24
  • Business Insider

Books

  • NB Publishers
  • Via Afrika
  • Collegium
  • Van Schaik Publishers
  • Jonathan Ball Publishers[5]

TV channels

VIA

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VIA is a 24-hour Afrikaans lifestyle channel.[6]

Via is available on MultiChoice's DStv platform on channel 147 since 9 November 2015.

Honey

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Honey is a lifestyle TV channel. It has a mix from lifestyle to reality, food, and culture across the African continent.[7]

The channel was available on MultiChoice's DStv platform on channel 173 from 15 February 2021 until 31 October 2023.[8]

See also

References

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  5. Jonathan Ball Publishers website.
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  7. Media24. HONEY Retrieved 3 July 2021.
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