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Naspers
Multinational holding and investment company
Naspers Limited (until 1998 Die Nasionale Pers) is a South African multinationalinternet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town, with interests in online retail, publishing and venture capital investment. Naspers' principal shareholder is its Dutch listed investment subsidiary Prosus, which owns approximately 49% of its parent as part of a cross ownership structure.[5]
Founded in 1915 by attorney William Angus Hofmeyr [af], Die Nasionale Pers was the largest publishing company in South Africa throughout the 20th century with interests across newspapers, magazines and books. In the 1980s, the company began to diversify, launching a subscription television service and investing in markets outside of South Africa for the first time.
In 2001, Naspers made an early investment in Chinese technology firm Tencent and became increasingly focused on the global consumer internet sector. In 2019, Naspers listed its global internet investment business unit Prosus (including a 31% stake in Tencent) on Euronext Amsterdam.
Naspers currently owns a 56.92% stake in Prosus[5] and wholly owns Media24 (Africa's largest publishing company), Takealot.com (South Africa's lar
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There are many phenomenal people working in the South African media industry, as the response to our call for nominations will attest. We honed the list down to 40 of the most influential and talented young people.
They range from media owners to strategists, planners and sales people. They include journalists, radio personalities, broadcasters, bloggers and data junkies.
This year’s list reflects a shift in the way media is envisioned, with digital on the rise. Almost everyone on this list has spent much of their working life in the media, emerging as multi-skilled and diverse professionals. For this reason, many straddle a number of sectors and we have done our best to categorise them in the most appropriate way.
To help us select, we turned to the following industry leaders to help in the judging: Omar Essack, deputy group CEO at Kagiso Media; Ray Hartley, editor of RDM.co.za; Jos Kuper, MD Kuper Research; Michelle Meyjes, MEC Global CEO; Clare O’Neil, broadcast media expert; Yolisa Phahle, M-Net CEO; and Gisele Wertheim Aymes, director of Longevity, ELLE and ELLE Decoration.
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NIKKI COCKCROFT Group head of online at Woolworths. Age: 34
When Nikki Cockcroft joined Woolworths in 2011, she led a multi-channel retail strategy. In 2013, she relaunched the retaile