Promoted | This year’s peak shopping season, which kicks off this month with Black Friday and culminates in the traditional pre-Christmas rush, will be markedly different thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.

South Africa’s headline consumer price inflation quickened to 3.3% year on year in October from 3% in September, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Wednesday.

Apple’s security chief on Monday was indicted on bribery charges as prosecutors alleged he promised a donation of iPads to the sheriff’s office to secure four concealed-weapon permits for Apple employees.