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This past April, the World Bank unveiled the Global Findex, the most comprehensive set of data on financial inclusion ever compiled. In strokes both broad and small, it paints a picture of where we stand in the fight to turn the 2bn unbanked poor of the world into active participants
The legal framework for broad-based black economic empowerment in South Africa has recently been significantly reformed through several amendments to the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act and new “generic” codes of good practice (which set out
The South African Post Office said its Gauteng outlets remain open on Thursday morning despite a planned strike. Up to 4 000 workers are set to march in Johannesburg’s city centre on Thursday to protest against alleged maladministration and salary payment
On Monday, the market learnt that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) had hit MTN with a fine of1,04 trillion naira for failing to deactivate unregistered Sim cards by a regulatory deadline. The fine, which equates to more than R70bn, is more than twice the entire group’s
Telecommunications group MTN will review its senior management team in Nigeria after a regulator there imposed a record-setting US$5,2bn (R71bn) fine on the subsidiary company for allegedly failing to deactivate as many as 5,1m Sim cards before a deadline to do so
The South African Post Office has won an urgent court interdict to halt planned strike action on Thursday. On Wednesday, the Communication Workers Union at a media
The government’s policy on free higher education is only for the poor, higher education minister Blade Nzimande told parliament on Wednesday. “Those who are calling for everyone
Identity theft in South Africa is on the rise as cyber crooks eye stealing from company executives, a survey has found. According to a 2015 Metrofile Information and Records Management Index of 200 executive managers of local companies, 7% of respondents
You may have noticed that the final trailer for the upcoming Star Wars instalment, The Force Awakens, has been released, and that fans globally are experiencing convulsions of mythopoeic anticipation