3S Media is one of the publishing houses owned and managed by Novus Print (Pty) Ltd. 3S Media has become one of the largest specialist B2B media houses in Southern Africa, offering bespoke print, online and multimedia content solutions for and to business communities. Founded in 1960 as Shorten Publications (now celebrating its 60-year track record), it provides premium niche business publications, in printed format, digimags, newsletters, mobile media, websites, video content, social media, streaming services as well as live and on-demand webinars.
Our mission is to share information and best-practices that will offer businesses and professionals from various industry sectors the leading edge to gear their companies for sustainable growth. We offer the target audience customer and reader focused content through a diverse network of industry experts and strategic partnerships.
CONNECT 2021 explores various multifaceted development initiatives being driven by the City of Cape Town to stabilise the ship during this period of recovery, guide economic growth on an upward trajectory, and make the Mother City South Africa’s top-performing metro.
This annual Special Interest Publication showcase how the City of Tshwane is leading financial recovery to reignite excellence. Executive Mayor Cllr Randall Williams gets candid about the challenges faced by the City of Tshwane and highlights the hard work being put in to place by his team.
3S Media publish a variety of Exhibition Show Booklets, Conference Guides and Event Programmes such as CESA Conference Indaba m IMESA Conference Guide, WISA Conference Guide, WasteCon Conference Guide, to mention a few.
IMIESA promotes the knowledge and practice of infrastructure development, maintenance and service delivery in Southern Africa.
The Mining in Africa publication, by Inside Mining aims to identify and provide insight into key issues affecting the development of the mining industry on the broader African continent.
They offer news from venues, service and travel providers; comments from industry role-players; reports, trends and innovative ways of doing business.
ReSource promotes integrated resources management, focusing on waste management and cleaner production and waste to energy initiatives.
It is an annual publication – a comprehensive and concise reference guide for the professional conference and event organiser and meeting planner.
This magazine publishes content dealing with the supply, treatment and measuring of water in Southern Africa.
SPOT-ON magazine is a township consumer, community based magazine. The target market covers everybody that lives and conducts business in a township.
Miningnews.co.za is rated as Africa’s top online resource for mining industry professionals and ranks at number 4 in the world. The ranking criteria include social media influence, editorial quality and Google reputation. (Feedspot, 2019). It provides local, Africa and International news and has an overall distribution reach of 48 632 digital and mobile users.
Infrastructurenews.co.za brings together the communities from our three magazines – IMIESA, Water&Sanitation Africa and ReSource. It is a leading industry news hub, with in-depth articles, interviews and videos, an events calendar, and full social media functionality. In addition to the core website property, Infrastructure News also produce and distribute 3 weekly electronic newsletters.
The Planner Guru is the definitive online point of reference for finding venues and product and service providers for the meetings, conference, events and exhibitions sector. With detailed listings of venues, speakers, team builders and other industry-related service providers and products, the website has become an essential tool for the industry.
Spotonmag.co.za is the digital platform for SPOT-ON magazine, Your Gateway to the Kasi Economy and South Africa’s No.1 township community magazine. The website is targeting everybody that lives and conducts business in a township. The readers are aspirational, smart and competitive – they focus on continuous self-improvement, upskilling and empowerment.
The fortnightly SPOT-ON newsletter reflects the daily lives, the challenges as well as opportunities that exist within significant, dynamic, vibrant and economic hubs across targeted townships across South Africa. It provides the latest township lifestyle content, business insight, new product launches, Stokvels news, including the latest tips on empowerment, growth and entrepreneurship.
The Mining News weekly newsletter provides an instant summary of the latest news, mining industry insight, events and developments for the mining industry professionals. The newsletter is delivered to the inboxes of 6 498 opt-in mining industry professionals.
The Meetings & Event Planner newsletters are sent to a highly-targeted database of opt-in newsletter subscribers. The Planner: Industry News Monday-weekly newsletters reach meetings, incentives, conferencing, and exhibitions (MICE) buyers and planners.
The Water&Sanitation Africa Wednesday-weekly newsletter provides an instant summary of the latest news, events and developments for the relevant water management and waste-water management industries.
The launch of the Women in MICE Awards 2021 Awards took place on 11 March 2021, with attendees live-streaming the virtually hosted event on GoToWebinar. During the exciting session, the categories, theme and judges for the upcoming Awards were announced. The event was co-hosted by Shanna Jacobsen, managing editor of Meetings magazine, and Thami Nkadimeng, message architect and Women in MICE ambassador. The organisers welcomed participation by a stellar line-up of speakers, including the Honorable Minister of Tourism, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane. Voicing her support for the MICE industry, she highlighted the important role that this plays within tourism.
