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Ride-sharing company Uber on Thursday announced a limited promotion of UberGreen in Cape Town. Following a Johannesburg pilot of the service, Uber expanded to Cape Town

System maintenance will once again necessitate downtime at Standard Bank this weekend. “Standard Bank wishes to advise customers of routine system maintenance due to take place on Sunday, 12 June 2016. This will affect

Government is satisfied that it’s doing enough to unblock the constraints to economic growth, said minister for planning, monitoring & evaluation Jeff Radebe. Briefing the media on the

Metered taxi drivers tried to block Uber partner-drivers outside Johannesburg’s Park Station on Thursday morning. Twitter users on Thursday morning started reporting about the incidents, which occurred outside the train station

Few schools in South Africa have the ability to roll out effective e-learning programmes because of a lack of understanding of these platforms, says an industry insider. “Despite some pockets of understanding, in our experience

Telkom will merge its enterprise-focused Telkom Business unit into IT group Business Connexion, which it acquired last year for R2,7bn. The merger will create one go-to-market brand and avoid the creation of parallel

Ratings agency Fitch on Wednesday affirmed South Africa’s investment grade credit, and surprisingly kept its outlook stable, but it warned that political and growth concerns should be addressed. This follows rating reviews by Moody’s

Uber Technologies started the ride-hailing service in the Ghanaian capital of Accra on Wednesday, continuing an expansion plan that’s seen the company regularly add new markets in sub-Saharan

South Africa recorded a negative growth rate of -1,2% in the first quarter of 2016, according to the latest figures released by Stats SA on Wednesday. Statistician general Pali Lehohla announced the official GDP in Pretoria