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    Central African Republic adopts bitcoin as legal tender

    By Agency Staff28 April 2022

    Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin as an official currency, becoming the first country in Africa and only the second in the world to do so. 

    Musk jokes about buying Coca-Cola to ‘put the cocaine back in’

    By Agency Staff28 April 2022

    Emboldened by his successful $44-billion bid to buy Twitter, Elon Musk took to the platform to joke about a new potential takeover target.

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    Promoted | Standard Bank’s data-centric approach has allowed it to understand its customers better and mature the personalised solutions and experiences it delivers.

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    Promoted | Learn how CIOs can use benchmarking to boost their organisation’s performance, while securing their own long-term goals.

    The answer to SA financial institutions’ ineffective terrorist financing controls

    By Ovations Group28 April 2022

    Promoted | South African financial institutions are ineffective at preventing the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of terrorism, a report has found.

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    South Africa’s green transition to cost over R1-trillion by 2030

    By Promit Mukherjee26 April 2022

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    Eskom seeks indemnity over any graft in Karpowership deal

    By Agency Staff26 April 2022

    Eskom has asked Karpowership to indemnify it against any adverse outcomes from corruption allegations in return for securing a supply contract.

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    MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita expects consolidation in the markets in which the group operates as high capital investment requirements make it increasingly difficult for smaller operators to keep up.

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