Counting the losses from the ravaging Cape fires
Cape fires by DION HENRICK CAPE TOWN – WHEN Lisette Lombard started her routine trail run this past Sunday morning, nothing seemed amiss. Atop the Devil’s Peak, she was even enjoying the small plume of smoke coming from the direction near Rhodes Memorial. The fitness enthusiast was even contemplating going for a further run. Unbeknown to More...
Cell C reports multibillion-Rand loss
Cell C Head Office by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG – CELL C believes its turnaround strategy is yielding improved financial performance despite a R5,5 billion loss in 2020. Zaf Mahomed, Chief Financial Officer More...
Altron buys digital signatures firm Lawtrus
Altron Group Chief Executive, Mteto Nyati by TINTSWALO BALOYI JOHANNESBURG – ALTRON, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed company, has acquired digital signatures services firm, Lawtrust, in a deal worth R245 More...
Fuel spike piles pressure on agro sector
Maize crop in South Africa by AKANI CHAUKE JOHANNESBURG – THE rapid increase in the price of fuel is putting pressure on agriculture input costs as South African farmers harvest last summer’s crop and prepare More...
R50 billion investment retains MTN as network of choice
MTN tower by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG – MTN’s R50-billion infrastructure investment over the past five years is paying off after the operator was again adjudged the best mobile network in South Africa More...
Financial crunch worsens Somalia drought woes
Somalia drought from SAAD MUSE in Mogadishu, Somalia MOGADISHU – GOVERNMENT and the humanitarian community are concerned about the worsening drought conditions in Somalia. Over 116 000 Somalis have already More...
Kenya embraces digital platforms in tax collection drive
Kenya Revenue Authority from MARIA MACHARIA in Nairobi, Kenya NAIROBI – THE Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is promoting the use of digital channels at the onset of the final phase of the tax return filing More...
Vodacom allocates R50 billion in network expansion
Vodacom by MTHULISI SIBANDA JOHANNESBURG – VODACOM is to invest more than R50 billion (about US$3,4 billion) in infrastructure and new technologies over a five-year period. This, according to officials, is aimed More...
Huawei performance in line with forecast
Huawei Rotating Chairman, Ken Hu by TINTSWALO BALOYI JOHANNESBURG – HUAWEI has reported increases of more than 3 percent in revenues and net profit in 2020 on the back of a year characterised by the coronavirus More...
Nedbank brings Apple Pay to local customers
Nedbank’s Executive of Emerging Payments, Chipo Mushwana by DION HENRICK CAPE TOWN – I-PHONE or Apple Watch users who are Nedbank clients can now make contact-less payments after the bank introduced More...