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 | | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Mastercard Foundation have announced a $275.7m partnership, which will expand the engineering and technology, research, and entrepreneurship programmes at CMU-Africa in Kigali, Rwanda...read |
|  | LAUREN HARTZENBERG South African Breweries CEO Richard Rivett-Carnac has called for policy certainty around excise taxes to enable the country's biggest beer brewer to make more long-term investment decisions...read |
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 | Sixty years after the International Labour Organization introduced equal remuneration and non-discriminatory employment practices, South Africa still has intrinsic gender pay gaps... Read |
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 | Norsad Capital signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe to create new opportunities for Zimbabwean businesses... Read |
 | Increased momentum in corporate lending as greater confidence lays the foundation for investment and growth... Read |
 | GEORGINA CROUTH The group says it is delighted with the surge in economic profit, which is only slightly lower than the high achieved in 2019. Read |
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 | The South African Reserve Bank will increase the repo rate at the next MPC meeting but just how much is up for debate... Read |
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 | CHIJIOKE OHUOCHA Nigeria aims to expand usage of its eNaira digital currency by attracting users without bank accounts... Read |
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 | Adoption of cryptocurrency, biometrics, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), open banking and account-to-account payments are anticipated to continue accelerating, study shows... Read |
 | TIM COHEN The Ethereum merge is done, opening a new era for the second-biggest blockchain... Read |
 | SANDRA CROUS Cloud payroll platforms can turn a crucial yet marginalised business system into a digital foundation, improve access to information, extend services to more people, and articulate how companies can pursue digital improvements... Read |
 | JUSTIN ASHER There can be no doubt that, since its emergence and explosion in the 2010s, the cryptocurrency space has been male-dominated... Read |
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 | ANDRE CILLIERS Emerging market currencies are on the back foot after warnings of a global recession from both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank... Read |
 | Sub-Saharan Africa's leading investment firm announces its new CEO... Read |
 | TOM WALKER As heatwaves become more frequent, city centre buildings will need to adapt. For investors, keeping an eye on weather data will become vital... Read |
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 | ANGELA ITZIKOWITZ AND ASLAM MOOSAJEE Recently, the Prudential Authority issued a guidance note to inform banks of terrorism controls relating to crypto assets and crypto asset service providers... Read |
 | STEPHEN LANGTRY The Department of Finance and Tax is perfectly positioned to grow from strength to strength, professor Suki Goodman, the dean of the Faculty of Commerce, revealed... Read |
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 | Genomic surveillance shows how Covid-19 variants reached and spread across Africa, highlighting mistruths about the continent... Read |
 | The Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA), in partnership with Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, will be launching in the west African country, with the aim to help develop its digital sector through provision of digital skills... Read |
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 | Eskom is seeking an average power tariff increase of just over 32% for the financial year that starts on April 1 2023... Read |
 | WENDELL ROELF Eskom expects a final decision on a new $476m World Bank loan to repurpose its Komati coal-fired power plant before November... Read |
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