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INDEPENDENT MEDIA

Bankers: Standard Bank
Auditors: Grant Thornton
KEY PERSONNEL
Executive Chairman: Dr Iqbal Survé
Head of Direct Sales: Samantha Naidoo
Head of Studio Independent: Vasantha Angamuthu
Head of National Sales: Agnes Peter
Head of Marketing: Lutfia Vayej
Executive Chairman:
Dr Iqbal Survé CONTACT DETAILS
Physical Address: 18 Osborne Street, Greyville,
Full Name of Company: Independent Media (Pty) Ltd Durban
(KwaZulu-Natal) Postal Address: P.O. Box 47549, Greyville, 4023
Nature of Business: Media publishers, printers and Tel: +27 (0)31 308 2911
distributors Website: www.independentmedia.co.za

Different Titles for Different Reader Needs
BREAKING NEWS AND FEATURES
Independent Media reflects and provides a platform
Independent Media is KZN’s most influential for its diverse readership communities – ranging
publishing group. From its Greyville, Durban, premises from the readers of English daily titles, the business
the company prints and publishes eight of its own and professional-targeting The Mercury and the
titles reaching approximately three million readers
in the region. In addition, regional copies of national people-oriented Daily News, to the country’s leading
publications and other commercial printing contracts vernacular publication, Isolezwe and the niche Indian
are undertaken, keeping the company’s presses community newspaper, POST.
rolling virtually 24/7. The fleet of presses now include KZN’s stalwart publication, The Mercury, is approaching
the company’s brand-new KBA, which has high- its 170th anniversary. Today this household publication
quality and other commercial capabilities, that was is a mix of breaking news and features, delivered
commissioned in 2021. crisply for the morning reader. Business Report keeps
An extensive, time-pressured operation distributes readers abreast of national and international market
newspapers all over the province − from Durban’s news and trends.
suburbs to far-flung rural northern KZN, into the The Daily News first began publishing in 1878, as the
Midlands, down the South Coast and into the Eastern Natal Mercantile Advertiser, based in West Street. With
Cape. Over 300 000 newspapers are delivered to a more people-oriented approach than The Mercury,
subscribers’ doorsteps every week, while thousands the title engages readers on a wide range of issues
of outlets, ranging from large supermarkets to small and interests, including entertainment, motoring,
tuckshops, are stocked at least once a day. Many Bollywood and racing.
readers still buy ‘on the go’ from our network of
street sellers. The isiZulu daily, Isolezwe, is a publishing
success story. Launched in April 2002, the
What’s more, the company has been making great title quickly built up a daily loyal readership of
strides in keeping up with the digital revolution
that continues to shake up the industry globally. over one million. In contrast to existing isiZulu
The Independent on Line (IOL) has grown into one titles, Isolezwe is indeed the ‘eye of the nation’,
of South Africa’s premier digital content publishers sharing new as well as familiar experiences with
within a few years. readers. Hard news and issues of interest to the

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