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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Workers will start an indefinite strike on Friday at all group companies owned by Walmart-led Massmart Holdings in South Africa.
Vodacom Group will spin off its South African tower portfolio into a separate business and may seek partners for the newly created entity.
Vodacom Group may consider a separate listing of its financial services business in South Africa to unlock value.
Telkom burned through close to R1-billion cash in the most recent six months.
Vodacom Group is targeting a 27% expansion in its financial services customer base to 73 million by March 2024.
ZARP is pegged to the price of the rand and is available on the Ovex cryptocurrency exchange, Curve, and Keep3rV1 Network.
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US secretary of defence Mark Esper warned that Nato allies utilising 5G telecommunications networks developed by China could put military and intelligence relationships at risk.
The trade war is taking its toll on Apple, a new survey of Chinese consumer attitudes shows.
Apple’s top communications executive Steve Dowling is leaving the company. Dowling has worked at Apple for 16 years and been in his role since 2014.
Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, said it will repurchase as much as US$40-billion of shares in a new buyback programme and boosted its quarterly dividend by $0.05 to $0.51/share.
First it was self-driving cars, then Google Glass, and now with Project Loon, Google is turning its attention to … balloons. The company has begun a pilot project in New Zealand using high-pressure balloons in the stratosphere to provide Internet connectivity “at 3G speeds” and, if it goes well, Google wants to encircle
Telkom has agreed to pay a R200m penalty, to functionally separate its retail and wholesale divisions, to adhere to pricing commitments for the next five years, and to allow its future conduct to be monitored. This all forms part of a settlement with the Competition Commission over anticompetitive abuses
