About Berea Mail

It’s the little paper with a big heart that visits your home every week delivering local news that affects you and connects you with local advertisers to help you make the best possible, pocket-friendly shopping choices.

At Berea Mail, we’re all about you, our readers.  We love to share in your successes and achievements, raise your concerns and social issues that threaten our neighbourhoods with local authorities and make you aware of the villains and dangers that infiltrate our communities.   Over the years we’ve followed your children from that first day at big school through 12 years of prize-givings and academic achievements.  We’ve been on the sidelines at rugby matches, swimming galas, athletic meets and in the audience at stage productions, musicals and debating contests.  We’ve built relationships with civic leaders, church leaders, business leaders, student leaders, artists, musicians, authors and a host of charities whom we gladly support, and through our print pages and our online platforms we have introduced them all to you.

As a team, we have met some of the most amazing individuals that make up the Berea community.  We’ve shared heart-warming and uplifting stories, we’ve shed tears in times of tragedy and we’ve joined hands in times of prayer.  We’ve marched together united against violence, partied together at music festivals on the beach and in the gardens, we’ve shared countless breakfasts, dinners and cocktails at various events, been part of the same audience at the theatre and when called upon, have rallied support when needed.

We do all this not because it is our job, but because you are our people and the Berea is our home from home.  We strive to present a cross-section of news and features honestly, without bias and fact-checked because we want to be your number one, reliable and most trusted news source.

115 Escom Road
New Germany
Pinetown

Tel: 031 716 4444

Editorial


Wanda Daly
Editor
Contact: 084 951 0301
Lauren Walford
Journalist
Noreen Perryman
Editor
Kerusha Moodley
Features journalist

Classifieds


Giles Thomas
SALES MANGER – CLASSIFIEDS
Jennifer Hills
Bookings
Arlene Wheatley
Classified Sales
Maria Lurie
CLASSIFIED SALES
Daisy Mohan
CLASSIFIED SALES

Admin


Nicole Vosser
Business Manager
Contact: 082 453 8056
Andrew Goddard
Accountant
Sharlene Torgius
HR & Admin
Alesha Govender
HR
Adele Wroots
Accounts
Dorcas Zondi
Accounts
Sylvia Manning
Debtors
Natasha Karamchund
Personal Assistant (Management)
Martie Janse Van Rensburg
Admin
Samantha Ramlachan
ADMIN
Natasha Samuel
Admin
Lousie Phama
Receptionist
Marion De Beer
Receptionist
Pretty Cele
Cleaner

Autodealer


Noreen Perryman
Editor
Robbie van Alphen
Sales assistant
Lisinda Greyling
Sales assistant
Wynand Grobler
SALES REPRESENTATIVE
Ruben Pillay
Sales Representative
Quentin Ferreira
Sales Representative

Sales


Sarah Braithwaite
Sales manager
Pam Govender
Sales Representative
Neil Jonker
Sales Representative
Oriette Du Toit
SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Distribution


Dhinesh Harilal
Distribution Manager
Henry Dayindawo
DRIVER
Brian Majola
DRIVER

Production


Quintus Nienaber
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Leonie da Silva
MANAGER – AD DESIGN DEPARTMENT
Jesslyn Samuel
Layout Designer
Germain Conan Puckree
Typesetting
Avashni Bipat
Ad Designer
Sharon Trollip
Ad Designer
Sandy Flack
AD DESIGNER

Interesting Facts about Berea purchase decision makers

  • Most of their shopping is done at Musgrave Centre
  • 60 per cent are female while 40 per cent are male
  • 61 per cent are English, 44 per cent isiZulu and 7 per cent Afrikaans
  • 66 per cent are employed full time
  • 25 per cent of households fall into the 25 – 34 year age category
  • 25 per cent fall into the LSM 10 category and 21 per cent LSM 9
  • Average household income is R17 136
  • 33 per cent of decision makers earn between R12 000 and R24 999

*Statistics obtained from Roots Survey 2013

 

 

 

Distribution

Berea Mail Distribution

Areas

  • Bulwer
  • Carrington Heights
  • Essenwood
  • Glenmore
  • Glenwood
  • Morningside
  • Musgrave
  • Umbilo
  • Windermere
Total distribution: 27 019 | Print order: 27 300 – Delivered on Thursdays