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|  | | Premier of the Western Cape, Alan Winde has pleaded with SA President, Cyril Ramaphosa to end the National State of Disaster, to no avail...read |
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 | Pan-African Payment and Settlement System launched... Read |
 | The informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 38% of the region's GDP... Read |
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| |  | COLLEEN HARRISON 2022 will be about making payment processes as frictionless as possible, by minimising the barriers of buying - from alternative payment methods to improved banking integration, says PayFast's Colleen Harrison... Read |  | ASHLIN PERUMALL AND JANET MACKENZIE Baker McKenzie partners in Johannesburg discuss the key legal and investment trends affecting technology, media and telecommunications, fintech and data privacy in Africa, and what can be expected in 2022... Read |
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 | Chair of the ICGN Board of Governors, Henry Jones, resigns... Read |
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 | EMMA RUMNEY Capitec will offer shares worth up to R1bn to employees at a discounted rate in a BEE transaction that will lower its earnings per share... Read |
 | MORNAY ROBERTS-LOMBARD South African retail banks need to develop an enhanced understanding of what it is that keeps customers loyal if they are to remain competitive, says Prof. Mornay Roberts-Lombard... Read |
| Covid-19 |
 | Covid passes will not be mandatory, face masks will not be legally enforced anywhere and advice to work from home will end, as Johnson drops Covid rules in England... Read |
| Economy |
 | Average consumer inflation for 2021 was 4,5%, higher than the averages recorded for 2020 (3,3%) and 2019 (4,1%), with consumer relief nowhere in sight... Read |
 | 70 percent of their economist panel think the rate will increase by 25bps in January, 30% say it will hold, according to Finder's... Read |
| Financial Services |
 | BORIS DZHINGAROV, ISSUED BY MONETARY LIBRARY Bring yourself up to date on what's happening with crypto in general, how bitcoin is faring, and what the most recent global economic developments mean for prospective investors... Read |
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 | Continental Reinsurance Plc has opened submissions for the 2022 pan-African (re)insurance journalism awards... Read |
| Markets & Investment |
 | ANDRE CILLIERS In the short term, the rand could be in for a bumpy ride... Read |
| Venture Capital |
 | Tiger Brands has named Barati Mahloele as the company's Venture Capital Fund director... Read |
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 | 249 organisations from 31 African countries were officially certified Top Employers 2022 for their outstanding HR strategies and people practices... Read |
 | CPT-based mobile gaming publisher Carry1st has raised $20m (R305m) from Google and A16z, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley... Read |
 | American company Oracle has opened a data centre in South Africa to provide local cloud services across Africa for the first time... Read |
 | Microsoft has announced that it will buy Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7bn (R1,06tn) in an all-cash deal... Read |
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