111 Shoprite’s CEO Pieter Engelbrecht received an almost R20 million remuneration bump in 2024, pushing his pay to R83 million. It is no secret that salaries in the retail sector are less…
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Fingerprints, facial scans now mandatory for Sassa grants
123 Social grants agency Sassa will introduce mandatory biometric enrolment for beneficiaries at its offices from 1 September. Until now the system has only applied to applicants for the Social Relief of…
Complete the LookSee survey and stand a chance to win R3Â 000!
111 As the cost-of-living crisis continues, LookSee wants to know more about how South Africans manage their homes and electricity costs. South Africans are feeling the squeeze of the cost-of-living crisis in…
Top soft skills to unlock your success in the workplace
91 Picture: Pexels In today’s dynamic work environment, technical expertise alone no longer guarantees career success. Employers increasingly value soft skills; those intangible qualities that enable individuals to navigate their professional landscapes…
DFA claims ‘world first’ 1.6Tbit/s fibre trial in South Africa
111 Maziv subsidiary Dark Fibre Africa has quadrupled the capacity achieved in an earlier test, transmitting 1.6Tbit/s on a single wavelength over a 40km stretch of its core network between Isando and…
Apple to launch iPhone 17 line-up on 9 September
110 Renders suggest this is the new iPhone 17 Pro, which is said to include a new orange colourway Apple will host its annual iPhone event on 9 September, where the company…
Cell C comeback supercharges Blue Label
141 JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms has taken a decisive step in its troubled, long-running association with Cell C, reversing a multibillion-rand impairment previously recognised against its stake in the mobile operator. The…
Why modernising while migrating to the cloud is critical
121 If I had a penny for every company migrating to the cloud, I’d be rich. I’d be wealthy if the pennies were for every migration that had its cloud costs explode…
BMR issues population numbers amid uncertainty of population figures
147The publication includes population figure projections by province, district municipality, local municipality, main place and sub-place. The Bureau of Market Research has issued projected population figures for the middle of 2025 for…
Two-pot retirement system complaints mainly about unpaid contributions
164 Since the implementation of the two-pot retirement system the Pension Fund Adjudicator was flooded with complaints. While the pension fund members who withdrew some of their retirement savings under the two-pot…