24.com is dedicated to creating, maintaining, and sustaining online and mobile platforms that ensure excellent, reliable delivery of our uniquely African digital media products to our audiences.
Our publishers cater to a variety of interests and needs, from our flagship news site News24 to business, sports, lifestyle and entertainment media sites. We provide the technology to facilitate the high-quality content and user-friendly experiences these platforms offer to engage and inform audiences by fostering a strong sense of community and connection.
We pride ourselves on our diverse range of sites, catering to the varied interests and needs of the South African public. These custom-built platforms ensure that the best of local journalism has a home in which to educate, inform and thrive.
With 180 million monthly page views, News24 is the most popular news publication site in South Africa. With a range of topics that include politics, economics, sports, entertainment, and lifestyle, News24 provides users with access to live updates, interactive multimedia content, and user-generated commentary, providing timely, accurate, and reliable coverage of events as they happen.
Netwerk24 is South-Africa’s largest subscription-based digital news site, offering on-the-scene journalism all day long from a team of countrywide reporters. Subscribers also have digital access to Media24’s legacy Afrikaans titles, including prominent magazines such as Huisgenoot, SARIE, Tuis, Kuier and Weg! and newspapers such as Rapport, Beeld, Volksblad and Die Burger. Netwerk24’s innovative multimedia content include drama, comedy and explainer video series, monthly audiobooks, podcasts and masterclasses.
Business Insider South Africa is a leading source of business news and information for South African audiences, providing in-depth analysis, commentary and breaking news on local and global business and financial markets, as well as trends and events affecting the South African economy.
Landbou, an agriculture and rural website operated by 24.com, provides news and information on the South African agriculture industry, covering topics such as farming, livestock, crop production, agribusiness, and rural development. The site provides in-depth analysis and commentary on the latest developments in the industry, as well as practical advice and information for farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.
SNL24.com is the umbrella site hosting three of South Africa's biggest and best-established news and sports media brands: Daily Sun, Soccer Laduma and KickOff and is ranked 3rd in the category News and Media Publishers in South Africa.
Son is an Afrikaans tabloid newspaper published from Monday to Friday in the Western and Eastern Cape.
With our coalition of some of the largest technology companies, we’re fulfilling our promise to transform the management of modern infrastructure and enable IT to move at the speed our stakeholders need.
Microsoft is proud to be working with 24.com to enable the following objectives: to support growth, streamline operations and enable insights-driven decision-making. The continued disruption to traditional media channels combined with ever-increasing consumer expectations for personalisation, immediacy, and choice means that organisations like 24.com need to be more digitally transformed. 24.com’s progressive and forward-looking approach has enabled them to deliver an unparalleled digital experience.
Cloudflare, an integrated global cloud network, has been a trusted security partner to 24.com for several years, providing millions of content consumers with secure, performant, and reliable news platforms. Cloudflare is proud to provide our trusted security architecture to 24.com and support them in their mission for enriching lives 24/7.
24.com is a key partner to the Media24 advertising sales business. Their professionalism and ad tech expertise are a cut above the rest, ensuring that we have only the solutions best suited for our advertisers. Adspace24’s “Reach with Trust” promise is delivered through the efficient and fit-for-purpose tech support we receive from the great team at 24.com.
24.com is an inclusive business to work for, with clear goals, roadmaps and honest communication between team members and those they serve. The 24.com team strives to continuously innovate and create solutions to balance the needs of all its stakeholders. There is no lack of interesting challenges and projects to work on, as they serve the diverse needs within Media24. Recent examples include a consolidated platform for our websites, Afrikaans text-to-speech (a world first), investigating a new CMS and making bespoke plans to showcase our content.
I’ve had the privilege of working with 24.com’s developers and product managers on a number of impactful projects, including the launch of News24 for subscribers in 2020. You will look far to find a more dedicated, smart and hard-working tech team who understands the purpose of quality journalism and supports our mission to make the world a better place.
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Elections are always a hectic and demanding period. Journalists must visit some of the many voting sites across South Africa, conduct interviews, and the media must report and analyse results. Politicians agonise over these results. And voters pay close attention to the progress and outcome of one of the most critical events in the country. Since 1994, South Africa has held a total of 12 parliamentary and municipal elections, each covered in increasing detail by news agencies. Increasingly, the Internet has become pivotal to this process, and millions of South Africans log onto news sites to track results
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