South Africa now has 116 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. “This means that there has been an increase of 31 new cases from yesterday’s announcement,” said the health department on Wednesday morning.
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The contribution to Remgro’s headline earnings from CIVH – the parent company of Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa – amounted to a loss of R197-million in the six months ended 31 December 2019.
Many South African technology companies are allowing their employees to work from home and encouraging them to make use of technology to avoid face-to-face meetings with colleagues and clients.
MultiChoice Group-owned pay-television service DStv is offering free access to its 24-hour news channels, including to non-subscribers, it said in a statement on its website.
South Africa’s fifth mobile operator, Rain, is upping the ante with its bigger rivals, offering uncapped 4G/LTE Internet access for R479/month.
Labour and business are pushing the government to find a way to utilise an unemployment fund with assets of about R180-billion to fight the effects of the coronavirus outbreak.
The South African Reserve Bank has warned the public that it is not withdrawing banknotes and coins due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Former Dimension Data executives Allan Cawood and Scott Gibson have invested in Pretoria-based secure identity solutions company Contactable.
Jasco has found itself in serious trouble with the JSE, with the Johannesburg bourse imposing a public censure on the technology company after various breaches of the listing rules.
South Africa’s benchmark stock index plummeted to the lowest in more than six years after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a national state of disaster over the coronavirus outbreak.