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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
antecedents
1652 Jan Van Riebeeck arrives in the Cape
1814 Cape becomes crown colony of Great Britain
1834 Boers move inland and start the Great Trek
1846 Natal Witness founded
1902 Boer Republics became British Crown Colonies
1904 establishment of Die Volksblad
1910
establishment of the Union of South Africa
1915 De Nationale Pers founded by Afrikaans nationalists
1915 launch of daily Die Burger
1916 launch of monthly magazine Huisgenoot
1918 establishment of De Burger Boekhandel
1918 establishment of De Burger Leeskring
1919 launch of Landbouweekblad
1919 publication of first English book, Republicans
and Sinners
1922 publication of first book in Xhosa
1925 Die Volksblad becomes a daily
1937 launch of daily Oosterlig
a pillar of the Apartheid state?
1948 National Party wins election
1950 establishment of Nasionale Boekhandel
1951 launch of Drum
1959 acquisition of Tafelberg Uitgewers
1960 Sharpville massacre
1963 foundation of educational publisher Nasou
1965 launch of women's magazine Fairlady
1970 amalgamation of Sunday papers Beeld and
Dagbreek as Rapport (with stake held
by Perskor)
1970 establishment of educational publisher Via Afrika
1974 launch of daily Beeld in Johannesburg
1975 establishment of distributor Nasionale Nuusdistrubeerders
1976 Soweto Uprising
1978 acquisition of publisher Human & Rousseau
1979 establishment of Afrikaans book club Leserskring
1982 establishment of Leisure Hour book club (now Leisure
Books)
1984 acquisition of Drum Publications (City Press,
Drum and True Love & Family)
1984 acquisition of 50% interest in Jane Raphaely &
Associates
1985 launch of Pay–television service M-Net
1985 launch of financial magazine Finansies &
Tegniek
1986 takeover of publisher JL Van Schaik
1987 launch of family magazine You
1987 Naspers book stores rebadged as Van Schaik Boekhandel
1988 acquisition of distance learning colleges Lyceum
and Success
1989 City Press relaunched as Sunday newspaper
1990 M-Net listed on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE)
1991 acquisition of Jonathan Ball Publishers
1992 M-Net expands outside South Africa
1993 MultiChoice spun off from M-Net
1993 expansion of MultiChoice to Europe
1993 Oosterlig amalgamated with Die Burger
1994 Naspers listed on JSE
1994 ANC wins South African national election
1994 launch of community newspaper City Vision
1995 introduction of digital satellite transmissions in
Africa, Europe and Asia
1995 introduction of Greek TV platform, NetMed
1995 final separation of M-Net and MultiChoice
MIH
1996 MultiChoice renamed MIH Holdings Ltd
1996 MIH subsidiary MultiChoice Africa founded
1996 amalgamation of educational publishers Nasou and
Via Afrika.
1996 50% interest acquired in Touchline Media
1997 MIH investment in Thailand pay–television platform
UBC.
1997 South African Internet business (M-Web) initiated
1997 MIH investment in OpenTV interactive technology company.
Naspers
1998 group name changed to Naspers
1999 OpenTV ownership increased to 80%
1999 MIHL initial public offer on Nasdaq and Amsterdam
stock exchange
1999 launch of M-Web Thailand
1999 launch of Nova digital pay–television in Greece
1999 Naspers acquires 50% interest in religious publishing
and retail group Lux Verbi/Sybel Media
global expansion
2000 reorganisation of Naspers into a holding company
with five subsidiaries: MIH Holdings, M-Web, Media24,
Nasboek and Educor
2000 Media24 printing operations regrouped into Paarl
Media
2000 Sunday newspapers City Press and Rapport
amalgamated into RCP Media
2000 acquisition of 50% interest in The Natal Witness
2000 sports portal SportsCN introduced in China
2000 amalgamation of OpenTV and SpyGlass Inc.
2000 74% interest acquired in weekly newspaper Soccer-Laduma
2001 acquisition of 46.5% in QQ instant messaging service
in China
2001 Nasboek's general book publishers amalgamated under
NB Uitgewers
2001 launch of Sunday newspaper Sunday Sun
2001 launch of dit, Afrikaans version of Woman's
Value
2002 first edition of Daily Sun published.
2002 MIHL sells its interest in OpenTV to Liberty
2002 MIH Holdings and MIHL become wholly-owned subsidaries
of Naspers
2002 Naspers secondary listing on Nasdaq
2003 Media24 merges printing operations with the Paarl
Post Web group to establish Paarl Media Holdings, increases
effective interest in Paarl Media to 84.21%
2003 launch of weekly Western Cape tabloid Kaapse
Son
2003 Hungarian version of Woman's Value launched
under licence in Budapest
2003 monthly edition of Touchline Media’s publication
Kick Off launched in Nigeria
2007 Naspers buys Polish instant-messaging system Gadu-Gadu
2007 agrees to buy UK online auction firm Tradus (formerly
QXL Ricardo) for US$1.9bn
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