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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$2.3B
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Dow Jones Description

Media Holding Company

Number of Employees 12,067
Contact Information

40 Heerengracht

PO Box 2271

Cape Town 8001

www.naspers.co....

(27) 214062121

NAICS Code Advertising Agencies: 541810

News & Analysis

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Koos Bekker CEO
Salie de Swardt CEO, Media24
Mark Sorour Chief Investment Officer
Steve Pacak CFO
George Coetzee Secretary

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Ton Vosloo Chairman
Ben Van Der Ross Board of Directors
Boetie Van Zyl Board of Directors
Francine-Ann Du Plessis Board of Directors
Fred Phaswana Board of Directors
Hein Willemse Board of Directors
Jakes Gerwel Board of Directors
Lourens Jonker Board of Directors
Neil Van Heerden Board of Directors
Rachel Jafta Board of Directors

Koos Bekker led the founding team of M-Net in 1985, serving as chief executive of the MIH group until 1997. He was also a founding director of MTN. He is a director of Media24, MIH B.V., MIH Mauritius, MIH Holdings, MultiChoice South Africa Holdings and other companies in the wider group. He also serves on the local organising committee for the Fifa Soccer World Cup 2010 and the council of the University of Stellenbosch. He has been chief executive of Naspers since 1997. Koos rejoined the board on 1 April 2008 after a one-year sabbatical.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited CEO Current
Naspers Limited CEO Former

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited CEO, Media24 Current

Mark Sorour is a qualified Chartered Accountant who previously held various positions in the audit and corporate finance divisions of PricewaterhouseCoopers. After qualifying he spent 5 years as an investment banker. In 1994 he joined MIH, the international division of the Naspers group, where he headed up business development throughout Africa, the Middle East, Thailand, China, Europe, USA and Asia. This included being relocated to Hong Kong and the Netherlands as corporate finance and acquisitions general manager. With the restructure of the Naspers group in 2002, Mark returned with his family to Cape Town as Chief Investment Officer, heading up the corporate finance and M&A function for the Naspers and MIH groups.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Chief Investment Officer Current
PricewaterhouseCoopers Former

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited CFO Current
Naspers Limited CFO Current

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Secretary Current

Ton Vosloo became managing director of Naspers Limited in 1984, serving as non-executive chairman since 1997. He served as a journalist from 1956 to 1983 and as editor of Beeld from 1977 to 1983. He is a director of Media24, MultiChoice South Africa Holdings and chairman of MIH B.V., MIH Mauritius and MIH Holdings and independent non-executive chairman of the board of Naspers. He is a former chairman of Sanlam, M-Net and the WWF (SA).

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Chairman Current
Naspers Limited Chairman Current

Ben van der Ross is chairman of RMB Asset Management (Pty) Limited. He also serves on the company boards of Momentum Life, FirstRand, Pick ‘n Pay Stores Limited and Lewis Stores Limited.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current

Boetie van Zyl is a member of the boards of MIH Holdings, MIH Mauritius, MIH B.V., Media24 and Murray & Roberts and a trustee and director of Peace Parks in South Africa. He is chairman of the Naspers audit and risk management committee, a member of the audit and risk management committee of MIH and Media24, as well as a member of the human resources and nomination committees of Media24 and Naspers.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current

Francine-Ann du Plessis is a director of Loubser du Plessis Inc, chartered accountants, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of South Africa, the KWV group, Sanlam and South African Airways. Adv du Plessis is a member of the audit and risk management committee of Naspers.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current

Hein Willemse is a member of the boards or a trustee of various organisations and community bodies. Prof Willemse is head of the department of Afrikaans at the University of Pretoria.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current

Jakes Gerwel joined the Naspers group as a director in 1999. He is a former directorgeneral in the office of past president Nelson Mandela, secretary to the cabinet and rector of the University of the Western Cape. Prof Gerwel is chancellor of Rhodes University and the chairman of Brimstone Investment Corporation, South African Airways, Media24 and Welkom Yizani. He is a member of the executive and the human resources and nomination committees of Media24 and Naspers.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current

Lourens Jonker is the owner of Weltevrede Wine Estate near Bonnievale in South Africa. He is a director of Absa and a former chairman of the KWV group.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current

Neil van Heerden is a trustee of the University of the Western Cape, former executive director of the South Africa Foundation (now Business Leadership) and a director of Via Afrika and other companies.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current

Rachel Jafta is an associate professor in economics at Stellenbosch University and a director of Econex. Prof Jafta is the chairperson of the Helen Suzman Foundation and a board member of the South African Institute of Race Relations. She is a member of the audit and risk management committee of Naspers, chairperson of the Media24 audit and risk management committee and serves on the Media24 board. She is chairperson of the Rachel’s Angels empowerment project.

Organization Position Status
Naspers Limited Board of Directors Current
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