Shoprite is adding buy now, pay later options across its retail brands, including for grocery purchases.
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Fewer learners studying mathematics at school level threatens South Africa’s economic competitiveness.
Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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Shoprite Group, South Africa’s largest retailer, has quietly launched a basic transactional bank account linked to its Xtra Savings rewards cards.
South African fintech Ozow has raised $48-million in a series-B funding round led by China’s Tencent Holdings.
Openserve, the wholesale division of Telkom, has announced that it will serve as the landing station partner for Google’s massive Equiano submarine cable system in South Africa.
JSE-listed Woolworths Holdings said almost 15% of its turnover came from online channels in its most recent reporting period.
South Africa will likely be hit by a fourth wave of infections but its impact probably won’t be as severe as during earlier surges, new modelling shows.
Due to plant breakdowns at three power stations, Eskom will implement stage-2 load shedding for the rest of the week.
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Xiaomi introduced its first phones compatible with the latest 5G cellular technology in China, as the country’s once-biggest smartphone maker prepares for an uphill battle against domestic rival Huawei.
Adam Neumann, the charismatic entrepreneur who led WeWork to become one of the world’s most valuable start-ups, is stepping down as CEO after a plan to take the company public hit a wall.
With the drama of a palace coup, some directors are considering a plan to encourage the brash co-founder of the once high-flying real estate start-up to step down as chief executive.
It took Tesla about 15 years to rack up US$5-billion in losses. The company known as China’s Tesla did it in four.
After four years in the planning, the post office has unveiled Trust Centre, a digital authentication service that provides reassurance of legitimacy in digital transactions and communications. Trust Centre serves as a certificate authority (CA) that issues digital certificates and holds the public key infrastructure
Imagine opening a computer and finding that the manufacturer hasn’t bothered to provide multicoloured wires in the tangle of cords. Now multiply that tangle of grey wires by 100m, unplug the power cord — and then try to follow the signals from each keystroke through those wires to an answer on the computer screen
