252 The entity admits that the city’s water and sanitation service ‘is not sustainable’. In its business plan for 2026/27, which accompanies the various draft budgets and tariffs for the next financial…
Category: Business
Boxer reports a year of store expansion and job growth
188 New store openings created 3 400 jobs, bringing Boxer’s total workforce to 35 314 employees. Discount retailer Boxer has reported mixed financial results for the year ended 1 March 2026. The…
Checkers Sixty60 suspended in Western Cape and parts of Eastern Cape
193 The delivery service has been suspended for the safety of drivers. Checkers Sixty60 has been suspended in the Western Cape and parts of the Eastern Cape on Monday due to severe…
Pressure builds on Vodacom’s South African mobile business
256 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub A reading of Vodacom Group’s 2026 financial results shows its home market is barely growing in customer terms, that what top-line growth there is leans heavily…
Pop star sues Samsung for $15-million
198 British singer Dua Lipa. Aude Guerrucci/Reuters British pop star Dua Lipa has filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics seeking at least US$15-million in damages, accusing the South Korean tech giant of…
RAF ordered to pay R2.2m to pedestrian and slapped with punitive cost order
192 Despite binding judgments, it refused to compensate the victim because her medical aid had covered a portion of the costs. The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has been issued with a punitive…
Eskom battles widespread outages as storm batters the Cape
305 A powerful winter storm sweeping across large parts of South Africa has caused widespread power outages, with the Western Cape worst affected after the South African Weather Service issued warnings for…
Voice going the way of SMS, says Vodacom CEO
255 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub Mobile voice revenue is following the same structural decline as SMS, Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub said in an interview on Monday – an unusually direct…
Vodacom’s fintech machine tops 100 million customers
246 Vodacom Group’s fintech business has surpassed 100 million customers for the first time, with the JSE-listed telecommunications operator reporting 103 million active financial services users in the year ended 31 March…
Where AI actually belongs in enterprise systems
230 Artificial intelligence is now firmly on the enterprise agenda. From boardrooms to product teams, organisations are exploring how AI in business can improve decision-making, automate complex processes and unlock new insights…