Nasionale Pers

Die Nasionale Pers ("The National Press") was founded on 12 May 1915 with the aim of furthering the cause of 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 Cillié, editor of Die Burger from 1954 until 1985 was a staunch supporter of the National Party, under B J Vorster and P W Botha . Cillie' 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.