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 | GEORGINA CROUTH Capitec may have increased customer numbers by 13% in the six months to August and grown headline earnings by 17%, but investors were not convinced by its cautiously optimistic tone... read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON It's been almost 30 years since SA's Black middle-class was seeded and there is much to be learnt from this consumer segment's resilience...read |
|  | KATJA HAMILTON Nedbank's Chipo Mushwana highlights the latest trends and technologies driving digital payments in South Africa...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Coronations to the following companies whose proud announcements were among the most-read press releases published via Bizcommunity's Press Office newsrooms in September... Read |
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 | REANA ROSSOUW, ISSUED BY NEXT GENERATION Corporate social investors, grantmakers, donors and philanthropists are starting to understand the value of measuring the impact and return of their investments, programmes and the organisations they fund... Read |
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 | Kenyan President William Ruto has appointed former central bank governor Njuguna Ndung'u as finance minister to steer the economy through rising inflation, a heavy debt burden and drought... Read |
 | Afreximbank has approved $200m toward financing of a contested oil pipeline to export Uganda's crude, and is willing to finance construction of a refinery in the east African country... Read |
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 | ED STODDARD South Africa's fragile economy shed almost 120,000 jobs, a fall of 1.2%, in the second quarter, according to the latest Quarterly Employment Statistics. The bottom line is that employment remains below the dismal levels recorded before the pandemic... Read |
 | BHARGAV ACHARYA South African manufacturing activity contracted in September as extensive power cuts weighed on production and new sales orders declined... Read |
 | CHARLEEN DUNCAN Entrepreneurship can help alleviate the unemployment crisis in this country, but the model must be sustainable, achievable and create impact at scale... Read |
| Fintech |
 | KATJA HAMILTON There remain barriers to entry into the crypto space for low-income earners in South Africa, and unless we address these challenges, a large sector of the population looks set to miss the boat on the savings and investment opportunities this platform holds... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY JNPR When Bruce Howard and Brian Benfield established Clientèle Financial Services in 1992, they knew South Africa's first direct distributor of life insurance products was destined for big things... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY NEXT GENERATION Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return... Read |
 | ANDRE CILLIERS Concerns surrounding global economic growth have heightened and seen risk appetites decline sharply... Read |
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 | The South African Revenue Service is moving towards an environment where all distributions and vesting amounts from trusts to beneficiaries must be reported to it on a real-time basis... Read |
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 | Investors are confident investing into African businesses, particularly in first and second-round raising... Read |
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 | The Red & Yellow Creative School of Business is extending its critical skills training to Tunisia-based Honoris Educational Network, Université Centrale Business School... Read |
 | MOATAZ MOHAMED, NADINE AWADALLA AND LINA NAJEM The World Bank has agreed to provide Egypt with $400m to develop the logistics and transportation sectors and support the shift towards lower carbon emissions... Read |
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 | Diesel users could face an increase in price in October... Read |
 | ANAIT MIRIDZHANIAN The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy has announced that the petrol pump price will decrease by up to R1.02 a litre and the diesel price will rise by up to 15 cents a litre... Read |
 | ALEXANDER WINNING AND KOPANO GUMBI Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan told a news conference that the new board would be chaired by Mpho Makwana... Read |
 | The Medupi and Kusile power stations have the potential to supply at least 4,800MW of energy each to the grid... Read |
 | LUKAS COETSEE Further to a meeting of the National Council of provinces held 22 March 2022, the report on the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Amendment Bill was adopted with proposed amendments... Read |
 | ROLAND INNES Effective leadership is critical to the success of any organisation. Much like companies, countries also require competent leadership, and just by looking at the current global economic situation, we can see the type of leadership style each chief of state has in the way they make decisions... Read |
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