Write for Business News South Africa
We publish business owners and professionals who know their subject first hand, under their own names and with their own author pages. We do not pay for contributed articles, and our editors decide what runs. Pitch an article, send us company news, or tell us a story we should be covering.
How it works
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Send your pitch
Tell us who you are and what you would like to write or share. It takes about five minutes.
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An editor replies by email
If it is a fit, an editor writes back. We cannot reply to every pitch, so if you have not heard from us after two weeks, please assume it is not right for us this time.
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Write and edit together
Send the draft when we ask for it. We edit for accuracy, length and clarity, and may ask you to tighten or source claims.
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Publish with your author profile
Your article runs under your name, with your photo, role and bio on a public author page.
Send your pitch
What we look for
Articles from named authors
- A clear point of view for South African business readers of any size, sector or stage.
- 800 to 1,500 words.
- Your own original, human-written work, exclusive to Business News South Africa.
- Every factual claim sourced, with at least three credible links in the text. Primary sources are best: regulators, companies, Stats SA.
- British spelling, and a practical tone: what happened, why it matters, what to do.
- One link to your own site, in your bio only. No promotional copy and no product links in the article.
- Tell us about any commercial interest you have in the subject.
- A real name, a real photo and a real bio. We verify authors before an article goes live.
Press releases and company news
- We verify the company, the people and the claims independently.
- We rewrite from the facts, not from the release wording, and attribute the company's own claims and figures to the company.
- Stories based on a company statement are labelled as such, and end with a section on what we could not confirm.
- Not every release is used. The best ones give readers something they can act on and a fact they can check.
- Editorial coverage is free and independent. Sponsored content is a separate, clearly labelled product: see Advertise.
If your pitch is accepted
- We reply by email and tell you what we need next.
- Send the article as a document or a shared link. We will not ask for the full piece before we have said yes to the idea.
- We edit for accuracy, style and length, and we choose the final headline.
- We cannot promise a publication date, and we may still decline a piece after reading it.
- Once published, your author page lists your articles.
Agencies
We work with agencies. Send the pitch on behalf of a named author or spokesperson who has approved it. The byline is always that real person, with their own photo and profile. We do not run articles under a company name or a house account, and we speak to the author, not only the agency, before anything is published.
Your privacy: your email address and phone number are private and are never published. Your photo, name, role, bio and links appear on an author page only if your pitch is accepted, and you can ask us to remove them at any time. See our privacy policy for how we handle personal information under POPIA.