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 | Finally, after 750 days of South Africa being under lockdown, the National State of Disaster has been lifted... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE This week we go behind the selfie of Herman Bosman, chairperson at Endeavor South Africa...read |
|  | LAUREN HARTZENBERG The Cannabis Expo in Cape Town provided a glimpse of the vast array of business opportunities that are emerging as legislation and policies around cannabis ease in South Africa...read |
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 | Kevin Britz and Craig Page-Lee, hosts of Lunchtime Marketing & Leadership, ask how banks and fuel brands are driving loyalty programmes... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM The term 'persona' is attributed to Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, referring to an individual's 'social facade' or 'face presented to the world which reflects the role in life that the individual is playing and makes a definite impression upon others'... Read |
 | South Africa's fiscal position has markedly recovered from the pandemic, and as a result the country's outlook has been revised to "stable", ratings agency, Moody's announced... Read |
| Banking |
 | Discovery Bank customers can now make travel arrangements with ease with Vitality Travel, an integrated travel-booking service linked to behaviour rewards... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON Standard Bank Group announces that Thulani Sikhulu Gcabashe will retire as chairman and director of the Company and The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (SBSA) boards at the conclusion of each of the companies' respective Annual General Meetings to be held in May 2022... Read |
 | As banks progress in terms of the transformation of the customer journey, the higher the customer expectations are of their banks, as is reflected across all the SA-csi surveys done by Consulta... Read |
 | Absa Group's main shareholder, The Public Investment Corporation is up in arms at the appointment of Arrie Rautenbach as the Bank's new chief executive officer... Read |
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 | RUSSEL MORENA The guns may not be ringing out on our shores, but South Africans from all walks of life will feel the impact of the war between Russia and Ukraine... Read |
 | Finance minister Enoch Godongwana on Thursday, 31 March, announced a cut in fuel prices to help ease pressure on consumers hit with sharply rising energy costs... Read |
 | The White House confirmed a plan to release up to 180 million barrels of oil from the strategic reserve, hoping to drive energy prices down... Read |
 | South Africa has launched its first national green finance taxonomy to assist the financial sector response to climate change and support sustainable development... Read |
| Financial Services |
 | RCS Group and Mobicred join hands to make credit-access easy and convenient in more than 4,000 online stores... Read |
 | LAURETTE COETZEE, ISSUED BY AFRIGIS It's never been so tough for financial services to get the numbers... Read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON The Cannabis National Masterplan is being revisited, says MK Malefane, Vaal Cannabis Consortium co-ordinator, with hope that it will be ready for The Vaal Cannabis Capital launch... Read |
 | ANDY JURY Andy Jury believes that there are varying degrees of denial about the truth that cash won't be king forever and that the concept of digital inclusion is here to stay. Here he unpacks this concept and reveals what the future of fintech and digital inclusion in Africa might look like... Read |
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 | Three innovative enterprises are set to benefit from Hollard's advertising-sharing campaign, Big Ads for Small Business... Read |
| Markets & Investment |
 | JULIAN JONES AND CAELLYN EEDES Can shareholders block a business rescue practitioner's plan to issue shares in the company as part of the business rescue plan, thereby diluting the shareholding of any class of shareholders? Read |
 | ANDRE CILLIERS Ratings agency, Moody's revised South Africa's outlook to "stable" from "negative", and while the country's fiscal outlook is improved, trade is still preparing to wake up to the fact... Read |
 | It is projected that stocks will be the best-performing investment in 2022, according to 24% of SA's adults, making stocks the top pick ahead of cryptocurrency, property, and cash, Finder.com's Retail Investor Sentiment Report shows... Read |
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 | DAVID CROSOER The recent change in National Treasury's foreign-exchange regulations will result in asset-management companies making quite significant changes over the medium-term... Read |
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 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Netflix's success in producing local content has led to the production of the third season of Blood & Water... Read |
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 | At the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue today, the International Renewable Energy Agency launched the World Energy Transitions Outlook 2022... Read |
 | Platform Capital has launched its operations in SA to provide strategically driven investments with a focus on developing the local SMME sector... Read |
 | DANIELLE SENEKAL Digital platforms are always evolving, shedding their skin to adapt to changes in the business environment, consumer demands and competitive pressures... Read |
 | Despite the R1.50 reduction on the General Fuel Levy, the fuel price increases for April will keep fuel prices at a record high... Read |
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