Nasionale Pers

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.

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).

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