MultiChoice Group-owned pay-television service DStv is offering free access to its 24-hour news channels, including to non-subscribers, it said in a statement on its website.

South Africa’s fifth mobile operator, Rain, is upping the ante with its bigger rivals, offering uncapped 4G/LTE Internet access for R479/month.

Labour and business are pushing the government to find a way to utilise an unemployment fund with assets of about R180-billion to fight the effects of the coronavirus outbreak.

Amazon.com will hire 100 000 people – and give US workers a $2/hour raise in an effort to meet crushing demand from customers placing online orders for household essentials.

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The South African Reserve Bank has warned the public that it is not withdrawing banknotes and coins due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Former Dimension Data executives Allan Cawood and Scott Gibson have invested in Pretoria-based secure identity solutions company Contactable.

Jasco has found itself in serious trouble with the JSE, with the Johannesburg bourse imposing a public censure on the technology company after various breaches of the listing rules.

South Africa’s benchmark stock index plummeted to the lowest in more than six years after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a national state of disaster over the coronavirus outbreak.