LAST week the Competition Commission announced that it was investigating 28 media companies, including Media24 for collusion on advertising pricing, and that Caxton and Independent Media had already pleaded guilty and/or had paid fines. The investigation avoids the troubling impact of cartel beha...

THIS week saw apartheid media firm, Naspers in the news with a fresh scandal, large enough to top any previous peccadillo. The sheer amount of opinion pieces generated by South Africa's media, and the scale and tone of the inquiry into the press is quite impressive. It marks a turning point inso...

FIN24, the Naspers-Media24 financial news site has been found guilty on one count of copyright infringement. The South Gauteng High Court found that Fin24 infringed the copyright of one Moneyweb article in 2013, after copying and republishing a substantial part of an original article, and was ord...

WHAT is more embarrassing than Kohler-Barnard tweeting about PW Botha? SANEF and the Minister of Justice supporting the career of PW Botha at Naspers. Both parties (Justice and Naspers) have acknowledged papers served in a case before the Equality Court EC19/2015. The case has been brought in ter...