READERS may be aware of false claims made by Naspers media group, News24 stating incorrectly that philanthropist Bill Gates would be testing a vaccine against Covid-19 on Africans. The story turned out to be fake news gleaned from twitter and has resulted in a series of embarrassing retractions a...

NEWS that former apartheid financier and bankster, Johann Rupert was 'donating' R1 billion to small business relief via the President's so-called Solidarity fund, raised the ire of many critics who argued that the donation was in fact a loan. The controversy recalls similar prevarication issued b...

AN OP-ED in today's Business Report asks the question: 'is it time to see Koos Bekker in an orange suit?' Sizwe Dlamini writes, "Naspers and Media24, by their own admission, were responsible for actively supporting the apartheid government. Naspers benefited by receiving textbook contracts as wel...

MEDIALTERNATIVES covered the creation of a cartel affecting thousands of media workers, the attempted gagging of journalists and the ongoing campaign against the TRC at the behest of holding company Naspers. It was only a matter of time before journalists began to take notice, this time, the retr...

THERE is no evidence that the Ruperts were during the 1980s, for all intents and purposes, in favour of anything more than apartheid euphemism and cant — the shallow transformation which characterised PW Botha's much-vaunted tricameral Parliament and which for a short time, allowed for separate h...

FOR DECADES Naspers was during the apartheid years, an incubator for racist government, producing no less than three Prime Ministers. PW Botha, HF Verwoerd and DF Malan. All had the backing of the corporation formed by the Broederbond. With the appointment of a new local CEO, following a listing...