President Cyril Ramaphosa. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa says the recent spate of incidents of suspected food poisoning linked to spaza shops and informal traders has brought issues of health and safety regulations into sharp focus. He has encouraged small entrepreneurs to register their businesses within a prescribed timeframe. Ramaphosa says the registration will legitimise…
Person holds a piggybank 3 minutes The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has sounded the alarm on the social and economic consequences of overdue pension fund contributions. The FSCA says arrear contributions affect the retirement savings outcomes of 310 000 members. Outstanding contributions are sitting at R5.2 billion, of which R1.4 billion is owed by…
An Eskom prepaid electricity meter box. 1 minute Johannesburg’s City Power says all its vending prepaid customers had their meters recoded ahead of last night’s deadline. The power utility says its teams will be on the ground from today assisting customers with replacing and installing new meters. City Power says it has already pre-generated key…
An Eskom prepaid electricity meter box and card. 4 minutes Eskom will continue to service non-paying prepaid customers and those who have tampered with their meters on Monday. The power utility has extended the deadline for zero buyers to upgrade their prepaid electricity meters. On Sunday, scores of people rushed to Eskom offices to try…
FILE PHOTO: Bitcoin tokens and a price chart are seen in this illustration picture 3 minutes Bitcoin touched a fresh record high on Friday, with its sights set firmly on the $100 000 barrier, in a stellar rally for the cryptocurrency sparked by expectations of a more friendly regulatory environment under a Donald Trump administration….
Adani Group CFO Jugeshinder Singh speaks during a press conference in Ahmedabad, India, August 29, 2024. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo 3 minutes A US bribery indictment of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani is linked to one contract of Adani Green Energy that makes up some 10% of its business, and no other firms in the conglomerate are…
Environmental activists protest during the COP29 United Nations climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan 2 minutes The COP29 climate summit presidency released a draft finance deal on Friday that would have developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035 to help poorer nations – a proposal that drew criticism from…
President Cyril Ramaphosa at the handover ceremony at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Federative Republic of Brazil. 2 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa’s Presidency of the G20 also presents opportunities for small businesses and co-operatives. He says the rate of entrepreneurship in the country remains low by continental standards. I…
Compliance inspection conducted as part of Operation Shanela, at a spaza shop in Kimberley, Northern Cape. Nov 2024 2 minutes The African Diaspora Forum (ADF), which represents the interests of foreign nationals in the country, says that its members have met with hostility from community members while trying to register their township spaza shops, in…
An Eskom prepaid electricity meter box and card. 2 minutes Disgruntled residents of Orlando in Soweto have accused Eskom officials of not properly communicating with them on the looming deadline for the upgrade of prepaid electricity meter boxes. The deadline is Sunday and residents with meter boxes that have not been upgraded could find themselves in the dark. Elderly residents say they…
