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South africa : Digitalization readiness key to unlocking SME growth potential says new Mastercard white paper
  • 22 December 2021
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Overall, 64% of South African SMEs say they believe e-commerce will have a positive impact on their business.The findings also indicate that South Africa, by far, is the leader in digitalization acro...

South Africa : Reinfection from Omicron three times higher than for any previous variant
  • 07 December 2021
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The risk of reinfection from the Omicron coronavirus variant is three times higher than for any previous variant, according to a South African study of infections since the start of the pandemic.The f...

South African cannabis company lists on German Stock Exchange
  • 07 December 2021
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JSE-Listed investment holding company Labat Africa has listed its shares as a dual listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE).Labat listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1996, repositioned a...

South Africa : Here are your chances of employment in South Africa – based on your level of education
  • 07 December 2021
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South Africa’s unemployment rate reached 34.9% in Q3 2021 – the highest figure on record as continued lockdown restrictions, load shedding and the July riots all impacted jobs in the country.While the...

South Africa : The job types surviving South Africa’s lockdown
  • 07 December 2021
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Statistics South Africa published its latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) this week, showing that the country’s unemployment rate increased to a record-high of 34.9% in the third quarter of 20...

5 important things happening in South Africa today
  • 07 December 2021
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Here’s what is happening in and affecting South Africa today:Coronavirus: In South Africa, there have been 11,125 new cases of Covid-19, taking the total reported to 3,031,694. Deaths have reached 89,...

South Africa : Eskom extends stage 2 load shedding – here is the new schedule
  • 10 October 2021
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Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will be extended until 05h00 on Thursday (14 October) to replenish emergency generation reserves.The power cuts are also necessary to address other addit...

South Africa : World Bank on South Africa’s plans to support the unemployed – including a R350 job-seekers grant
  • 09 October 2021
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The World Bank said South Africa, which ranks among the world’s top 10 spenders on social assistance, could consider a range of reforms to its R156 billion ($15 billion) annual welfare program to make...

South Africa : A low-cost airline has just launched a flight subscription service in South Africa
  • 09 October 2021
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Low-cost domestic airline Flysafair has launched a new monthly subscription service – ‘the FlyMore Club’.Aimed at business travellers, people in long-distance relationships, commuters, people with hol...

South Africa will need to consider mandatory vaccinations and incentives in the coming months: business group
  • 09 October 2021
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South Africa’s first ‘Vooma Vaccination’ weekend set an ambitious target of vaccinating 500,000 people, and while it only achieved around 350,000 jabs, it represented a significant increase for weeken...

South Africa’s troubled sugar industry in talks with government over potential biofuel subsidy
  • 09 October 2021
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South Africa’s sugar industry is in talks with the government over a potential subsidy that could see it convert more than a third of its annual output into biofuel, according to a group representing...

SOUTH AFRICA:New Zealand exploring the possibility of issuing a digital currency
  • 30 September 2021
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New Zealand’s central bank is exploring the possibility of issuing a digital currency, saying the benefits it would bring include its potential use as a monetary policy tool.“Trends in cash use and in...

SOUTH AFRICA:A proposed ‘economic experiment’ could see South Africa use special zones where normal job rules don’t apply
  • 30 September 2021
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More than nine million young people in South Africa are neither in employment, education nor training (NEET), and a combination of significant reforms and growth are needed, says think tank the Centre...

South African banks are reintroducing ATM charges this week
  • 30 September 2021
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South African banking customers should take note of the reintroduction of ATM Saswitch fees from Friday (1 October).Currently, most of the country’s banks charge a different fee when their c...

SOUTH AFRICA:Discovery Bank clients experience the future of banking, now
  • 29 September 2021
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Consumers can bank the way they’ve always banked, or they can bank with Discovery Bank, which offers servicing and banking solutions of the future, now.This is the premise of Discovery Bank’s new inte...

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