# ActionSA has called for an urgent debate on South Africa’s manufacturing job crisis. ArcelorMittal’s Long Steel closure threatens three-thousand-500 jobs, while retrenchments at Ford, Goodyear, Glencore, and Merafe risk thousands more. ActionSA’s Michael George urges Parliament to involve ministers, unions, industry leaders, and affected workers to discuss interventions including energy reforms, financial support, retraining, […]
# City Power het alle voorafbetaalde-meterinstallasies tydelik tot 1 November gestaak. Woordvoerder van die kragvoorsiener, Isaac Mangena, sê die onderbreking sal tyd toelaat vir ‘n deeglike hersiening van die oorskakelingsproses na bekommernisse oor rekeningverskille, kliënte wat nie krag koop nie, en tariefstrukture. ‘n Taakspan sal die finansiële en opersaionele impak ondersoek, met bevindings wat oor […]
# Cosatu is urging the South African Social Security Agency to reconsider its phasing out of the Postbank as a service provider for social grant payments. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks says the federation is extremely dismayed by SASSA’s announcement that they intend to end the Postbank’s participation in processing social grant payments to millions of recipients in favour of […]
# Die Nasionale Tesourie sê sy slimmeterprogram ter waarde van twee-miljard-rand kan help om Eskom se stygende munisipale skuld van meer as 100-miljard-rand te verminder. Verlede jaar is meer as 67-duisend slimmeters in agt munisipaliteite aangebring, met ‘n verdere 77-duisend-780 wat vanjaar in nog elf munisipaliteite ingestel sal word. Die Tesourie beoog om teen die […]
# City Power has temporarily suspended all prepaid meter conversions until 1 November. The utility’s spokesperson Isaac Mangena says the pause will allow for a thorough review of the conversion process after concerns over account discrepancies, non-vending customers, and tariff structures. A task team will investigate the financial and operational impacts, with findings due in […]
# FNB het agt toekennings by die Global Finance Best Digital Banks 2025-toekennings verower – een van die mees gerespekteerde toekennings in wêreldwye finansiële dienste. Die toekennings vier instellings wat die toekoms van bankwese bepaal deur innovasie, sekuriteit en klante-gesentreerde digitale transformasie. FNB se toekennings sluit in die beste digitale bank vir verbruikers en beste […]
# Die Stellenbosse Sakeskool se 2024 Kleinsake Akademie-student van die jaar, Rucien Petersen, sê sy onderneming is besig om van krag tot krag te gaan. Hy het Spottmedia Limited tydens sy nagraadse navorsing in 2017 gestig. Petersen sê Spottmedia is begin om klein ondernemings te help om bemarkingsgapings te identifiseer en strategieë in te stel […]
# The National Treasury says its two-billion-rand smart-meter programme could help tackle Eskom’s ballooning municipal arrear debt, which has topped 100-billion-rand. Over 67-thousand smart meters were installed across eight municipalities last year, with a further 77-thousand-780 to be rolled out in eleven more municipalities this year. Treasury is aiming to install approximately 250-thousand smart meters […]
# FNB won eight awards at the Global Finance Best Digital Banks 2025 Awards, which is one of the most respected awards in global financial services. The awards celebrate institutions that are shaping the future of banking through innovation, security, and customer-centric digital transformation. FNB’s awards include best consumer digital bank and best mobile banking app […]
