About us

IOL is a leading aggregation platform for news, current affairs and content in South Africa.

IOL reaches millions of readers monthly, readers who return to the site and spend significant time accessing news and information – from breaking minute-by-minute news to content in certain key categories including business, sport, lifestyle, entertainment and current affairs.

Specialised content units provide a breadth and a depth of content in verticals that include: news, world, Africa, travel, technology, celebrity, health, entrepreneurship, PSL soccer, property and motoring to name a few.

Content is created by trained, qualified journalists whose skills have been honed in all aspects of digital content creation.

Our readers are at the heart of every strategic content decision and we live by our Just Cause of inclusivity and transformation.

A platform featuring content from a range of sources

IOL content is written, edited and managed by a team of journalists and editors primarily based in the largest cities in South Africa – Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban as well as a corps of freelancers and contributors.

IOL has a wide publisher network including some of South Africa’s most prominent and storied newspapers published by Independent Media.

It also features syndicated content from a range of sources including an African partner network via the African News Agency, Reuters, AFP, The Washington Post, Xinhua, Sputnik, and IANS.

IOL LeadershipCEO: Viasen Soobramoney [email protected]

Editor: Lance Witten [email protected]

Deputy Editor: Lee Rondganger [email protected]

Content Manager – News: Devereaux Morkel [email protected]

Content Manager – Lifestyle, Business, Sport: Sihle Mlambo [email protected]

Content Distribution: Kim Kay [email protected]

Product Development: Faheem Khota [email protected]

Marketing and Admin: Zurina Morgan [email protected]

How to reach us

Newsdesk: [email protected] Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Opinion and Letters submissions: [email protected]

Information: [email protected]

Competition Entries: [email protected]

Service and Partnership Offerings: [email protected]

Advertising Sales and Commercial

Volt.Africa is the official advertising partner of IOL. All enquiries can be made to [email protected] and programmatic deal enquiries to [email protected].

How to reach us

You can find IOL on social media including X, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

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