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 | ANGELA SIMPSON AND LYDIA SHADRACH-RAZZINO Private markets in sub-Saharan Africa have seen a continuous rise in activity since the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest AVCA Private Capital Activity Report 2022 revealed that $7.6bn of private capital was invested in 2022, resulting in a 3% growth in deal value across the continent last year...read |
|  | ISSUED BY BULLION PR & COMMUNICATION Although banks appear to be making greater efforts to resolve some types of consumer disputes internally, banking fraud related to current accounts and internet banking remains high on the list of complaints to the Ombud for Banking Services South Africa...read |
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 | The energy crisis crippling South Africa's economy was the key focus of the minister of finance, Enoch Godongwana's national treasury budget vote. The 2023/24 total allocated budget for the national treasury amounts to R34.9bn... Read |
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| |  | KATJA HAMILTON In light of #AfricaMonth, we caught up with Yellow Card's chief executive officer, Chris Maurice, who speaks about unlocking financial freedom in Africa through crypto... Read |
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| |  | CLINTON ABBOTT Banks understand how beneficial it is for wider communities when women can run businesses and become financially active... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY SAICA On 4 May 2023, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) announced proposed amendments to the JSE Listings Requirements and JSE Debt Listings Requirements, relating to the Auditor Accreditation Model... Read |
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 | The opening of yet another Unifi branch in Kenya, speaks to the company's mission of fostering financial inclusion across sub-Saharan Africa... Read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy aims to revise the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2019, which provisions for nuclear energy production in SA's just energy transition... Read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON The Board of Healthcare Funders recognises and celebrates top performers and exceptional service providers in the healthcare sector... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GREENCAPE GreenCape, in partnership with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, invite innovators and entrepreneurs with economically viable green economy innovation business ideas to enter the 2023 GreenPitch Challenge... Read |
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 | Root's expansion into the UK was a logical next move, partly due to practical considerations such as a shared language, strong travel links and a comfortable time zone difference... Read |
 | A new study estimates that e-commerce transactions globally will reach $8tn by 2027, with emerging markets driving 51% of growth... Read |
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 | JEAN-PAUL RUDD A few years ago, several well-known short-term insurance companies took legal action against an intermediary company due to the damages they incurred as a result of the intermediary's collapse... Read |
 | SA's major life insurers performed decently, as all shift focus to IFRS17 compliance... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MSPORTS MARKETING Momentum Insure has launched a new rewards programme designed to incentivise its clients for demonstrating safety behaviour. The Safety Returns programme offers clients up to 30% cash back on their paid premiums every year... Read |
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 | ANDRE CILLIERS The G7 meeting kicks off today with South Africa not being invited... Read |
 | There is strong correlation between emerging market companies' scores in ESG indexes and key financial and value creation metrics, new research from Boston Consulting Group has revealed... Read |
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 | Alex Wachira, principal secretary in the Kenyan Ministry of Energy & Petroleum, said Africans need to do the energy transition for themselves... Read |
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 | Data gathered by Sebenza and Red Fox Insight shows that food is the biggest monthly expense for the majority of SA's taxi commuters, but despite high levels of unemployment, many are still able to make ends meet... Read |
 | WENDELL ROELF Karpowership has in the past faced numerous challenges from environmental activists and small-scale fishermen... Read |
 | NELLIE PEYTON AND CARIEN DU PLESSIS Stage 8 would require up to 8,000 megawatts to be shed from the grid... Read |
 | Acting GCE Calib Cassim said at Enlit Africa that controls are in place as well as staff who have the competence to manage the tight system... Read |
 | Speaking during the opening session of this year's Enlit Africa conference, Calib Cassim admitted that Eskom was "starting the winter on the backfoot"... Read |
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