Author: Staff Reporter

Apple’s newest iPhones will go on sale in South Africa on 8 October – three weeks from now – a local agent has confirmed.

TymeBank is likely to break even in 2022. Discovery Bank, by contrast, is targeting breakeven in approximately three years’ time.

Energy regulator Nersa has kicked a hard discussion about a licence for the controversial electricity generator down the road.

Vodacom has expanded the deployment of solar-powered sites in an effort, it said, to reduce carbon emissions.

African Bank has appointed Unathi Mtya as group CIO with immediate effect. She was previously chief technology officer at Grindrod Bank.

South Africa is considering the introduction of electronic “vaccine passports” to allow people access to public and private spaces and venues.

Discovery will give adult members of its Vitality behaviour change platform 2 500 points for being fully vaccinated against Covid-19 this year.

Mobile payments platform M-Pesa has topped 50 million active users – measured by monthly active customers – telecommunications group Vodacom said on Tuesday.

Telkom has become the latest mobile operator to chop ad hoc data prices, cutting the headline price of 1GB of data to R79 – R6 less than rivals Vodacom and MTN – and introducing a new 1.5GB bundle.

4AX, a rival stock exchange to the JSE launched in 2017, is relocating from Johannesburg to Cape Town, will be rebranded as the Cape Town Stock Exchange, and will position itself as the “Nasdaq of Africa”.