Southern Africa

Vodacom group has secured ownership of Tower company and looks to announce its MD in due course. On Thursday, the company said it is establishing a separate legal entity for …

South Africa’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 5.5 percent on Thursday — the steepest hike in a decade. The move — …

Eskom has updated its planned load-shedding schedule for the coming weekend. One of the changes from its announcement earlier this week is that it will implement stage 2 instead of stage 1 …

NSFAS, The National Student Financial Aid Scheme will in the 2022 academic year spend R47.3 billion funding the tertiary education of 691 432 students. This was recently revealed by Higher …

Challenges is putting pressure on the profit margins of small businesses in South Africa, says Andiswa Bata, co-head of SME at FNB. Interest rates has increased to curb rising inflation, …

Global fast food restaurant KFC has launched a new “high tech” restaurant in Pinelands, Cape Town, featuring digital menus, self-service kiosks and a two lane drive-thru. Kentucky Fried Chicken said …

Air Mauritius is set to resume non-stop flights from Cape Town to Mauritius in November this year. In a social media post on Tuesday (19 July), the airline announced that it would …

The South African Information and Communications Technology (ICT) space saw a major shake-up last week, after mobile operator MTN South Africa announced it was in talks to buy Telkom. Both …

According to AIDS Healthcare Foundation Africa Bureau chief, Dr Penninah Iutung, patients at the facility will now be transferred to government health facilities where they are set to benefit from …

Imperial Logistics, Africa-focused logistics company has gotten the go-ahead to own 100% of the J&J Group, giving Imperial which is owned by Emirati multinational logistics company DP World greater access …