75 Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong When Telkom releases its results for the year to end-March this Tuesday, the headline number will look spectacular. The detail beneath it will be more interesting….
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Nvidia CPUs to debut in Windows laptops this week
78 AI chip firm Nvidia and software giant Microsoft are this week expected to debut the first Windows PCs that use Nvidia’s chips as the main processor, Axios reported at the weekend,…
Trading with China? Sars explains new zero-tariff export process
73 Sars cautioned that not all products exported to China will automatically qualify for zero-tariff treatment. The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has finalised the legal and operational framework needed to implement…
South Africa’s most fuel-efficient cars to considerÂ
81 Image Credit: Gettys The recent hike in petrol has many South Africans anxious about how they’ll make ends meet. Not only will travel costs increase, but with a petrol hike this severe, food…
Standard Bank overtakes Capitec, FirstRand as Africa’s most valuable bank
103 But this three-way tussle will be with us for some time yet … Standard Bank has firmly overtaken both Capitec Bank and FirstRand to become the South African bank with the…
Sizekhaya ushers in a new era for the National Lottery
98 The National Lottery represents possibility. Sometimes that possibility is personal: paying off debt, buying a home, helping family or finally starting the business you’ve dreamed about for years. But the lottery…
Joburg street lights switched off over electricity debt
75 City Power’s SPU accounts, which go towards keeping the street lights on, are in arrears. Households and businesses in Johannesburg may have averted a blackout following threats from Eskom to reduce…
Pep’s new bank ‘PlusB’ will cost just R920m to build
82 This is less than a third of what Old Mutual spent … Pepkor, which is in the process of building a bank offering, says it is targeting a total build cost…
Reserve Bank’s early hike may curb need for sharper tightening
114 Rate path hinges on a ceasefire in the Middle East and how quickly oil prices come down, economists say. Economists and analysts believe the South African Reserve Bank’s (Sarb) latest interest…
Here’s why government has only spent R179m from the R500m Spaza Shop Support Fund
92 Verification processes revealed some spaza shops did not exist. The Department of Small Business Development says R179.5 million from the Spaza Shop support fund has been spent on qualifying businesses around…