Nasionale Pers

Nasionale Pers or Die Nasionale Pers ("The National Press") was founded on 12 May 1915 (the known as De Nationale Pers) with the aim of furthering the cause of Afrikaans and the Afrikaner people. At first it only published a newspaper, Die Burger, but soon expanded and in 1916 published its first magazine Die Huisgenoot. D. F. Malan, a former minister in the conservative Dutch Reformed Church was persuaded to become editor and was the main supporter of Hertzog's National Party.

In 1918 the company took a further step towards expansion when its book publishing operations were founded as Die Burger Boekhandel. Piet , editor of Die Burger from 1954 until 1985 was a staunch supporter of the National Party, under B J Vorster and P W Botha . Cillié upheld the apartheid system through many pro-segregation editorials until the very end.

Also published and cited under a variety of other names over the years, including Nasionale Pers Boekhandel (NPB), Nasboek, Nasionale Boekhandel, NB Uitgewers, etc.

Nasionale Pers itself listed on JSE on 12 September 1994 and in 1998 the group's name changed to Naspers.

M-Net and MultiChoice

In 1985, Nasionale Pers and a number of other South African media companies formed an electronic pay-television media business, M-Net, which was listed on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) in 1990. In 1993, M-Net was divided into two companies - M-Net itself became a pure pay-television station while the company's subscriber management, signal distribution and cellular telephone activities were formed into a new company called MultiChoice Limited (later renamed MIH Holdings Limited).In 1997, MIH Ltd. created an internet service provider, M-Web Holdings, which also runs M-Web Blogspace, a popular South African blogging platform.

Naspers

Nasionale Pers had had itself listed on JSE on 12 September 1994 and in 1998 the group's name changed to Naspers.

In January 2000, Naspers merged its existing private education activities with that of another leading South African private education business to form Educor Holdings Limited - one of the leading private education providers in South Africa. During the same year, Naspers also re-organised and branded its print media business as its Media24 division.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naspers

http://www.naspers.com/index.php

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