A new study by Mastercard has found – unsurprisingly – that South Africans are shopping more online since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. And the top thing they’re buying is cellular airtime.
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Suspicious payments flowed to a company owned by Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo and to the ANC in the months directly before and after EOH landed major contracts with the city.
Former EOH executive Jehan Mackay has taken centre stage in corruption allegations involving payments to senior ANC figures, including Zizi Kodwa and a former personal assistant to ex-President Jacob Zuma.
EOH CEO Stephen van Coller’s testimony at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture inadvertently turned into a lecture on how corruption between the state and the public sector happens.
South African business confidence has jumped to the highest level in more than two years as further easing of lockdown restrictions spurred a resurgence in activity.
South Africa’s headline consumer price inflation quickened to 3.3% year on year in October from 3% in September, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Wednesday.
The Public Investment Corp is willing to help Eskom resolve its debt crisis, finance minister Tito Mboweni said at the Bloomberg Capital Markets Focus virtual event.
Twitter has released plans for its new policy on how people are “verified” on the site, an area the company…
After coming under political and union pressure, the SABC board has decided not to proceed with 400 planned job cut – needed as part of a plan to save itself from financial collapse – until at least January.
Capitec has launched QR payments in its app, allowing clients to scan barcodes to make payments at the point of sale or online, including where merchants use Zapper or SnapScan.