Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and Roc Nation founder Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said Friday. The duo is putting 500 bitcoin, which is currently worth $23.6 million, in the endowment called ₿trust. The fund will be set up as a blind irrevocable trust,...
Day: <span>12 February 2021</span>
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DStv Price Increases Revealed Starting 1st April
Multichoice every year increase their DSTV packages across the board. Starting from 1 April 2021 expect to pay a slightly higher price for your DSTV package. Speaking to MyBroadband, MultiChoice COO Simon Camerer said while they are increasing prices across the board, they have been able to keep them in check. “We still have to...
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SONA Analysis: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Tight-Rope Walk writes Vanessa Banton
Thursday night marked Cyril Ramaphosa’s fifth State of the Nation Address, but his first since Covid-19 gripped the country and the rest of the world. It resulted in a much-muted affair, with only a handful of mask-wearing MPs in Parliament, while the president made his address which had a strong focus on economic recovery and...
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Paying or Receiving a Dignified Wage writes Mark Sham
About two days ago, I read a Business Insider article that wrote about government gazetting the new national minimum wage which is now R21.69 per hour. This is an increase of 4.5% from last year. More specifically, the same article mentioned the minimum wage of domestic workers increased from R15.57 per hour to R19.09, a hike...