327 The war in the Middle East, and the resultant spike in the price of fuel, is driving a major shift in thinking about electric mobility by both consumers and logistics firms,…
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Joburg Water disaster has been a decade in the making
328 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…
Boxer reports a year of store expansion and job growth
242 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
303 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
360 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
253 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
246 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
441 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
350 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
348 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…