46 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Remo Casilli/Reuters In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone, overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos, was…
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R106m pay cheque for one man: Here’s how Standard Bank pays its top employees
70Seven C-suite executives cost Standard Bank nearly half a billion. Nothing says you are a C-suite executive like a remuneration package divided among fixed annual salaries, short-term bonuses, shares or stock options,…
Mantashe wants to ramp up local fuel refining capacity, but has that boat sailed?
72Four refineries are either offline or shut down, leaving SA massively dependent on imports at a time when war is raging in the Middle East. Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede…
Born to Trade Episode 3: Serious trading, risk, routine, and structure
65 Think like a trader: Discipline, risk, and the structure of serious trading. In trading, titles are used loosely: Professional, Full-time, Serious. Impressive terms, but few can define what they truly mean….
Top platforms for forex, gold, commodities, indices and global stocks
71 Forex trading in South Africa is evolving fast and it’s no longer just about currency pairs. Forex trading in South Africa has expanded rapidly in the past decade. While traders previously…
Old Mutual Investments appoints board chair and COO
47The appointments follow a period during which the entity operated under an interim leadership arrangement Old Mutual Limited on Friday announced the appointment of Nersan Naidoo as chair of the boards of…
Did Shoprite open a Checkers Hyper too many?
62 The Shoprite Group opened an unprecedented four Checkers Hyper stores in the last six months of 2025. Historically, it has added a maximum of two a year. The addition of four…
MTN and Vodacom dwarf South Africa’s listed tech sector
78 MTN Group and Vodacom Group, the two giants of South Africa’s telecommunications sector, each clock up more than R1-billion in revenue in just two and three days, respectively. TechCentral analysed companies…
‘Stick to normal patterns’: Fuel association calls for calm amid petrol and diesel shortage fears
75 Changes in consumer behaviour can negatively impact fuel stability. The Fuels Industry Association of South Africa has warned the public against panic buying, stressing that there is no need to stockpilr…
How South African executives can crack the AI ROI code
77 The author, Workday’s Jannie Malan Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from boardroom curiosity to boardroom mandate. Across South Africa — from Sandton’s financial district to Cape Town’s technology hubs — executives…