Standard Bank Group has table a buyout offer to Liberty Holdings. The bank seeks a total control of the insurance company which already has a 54% stake. In a statement, Standard Bank said that it has long enjoyed a strategic relationship with Liberty, thanks to a “highly successful and valuable bancassurance arrangement”. It now wants...
Day: <span>15 July 2021</span>
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Talk Radio 702 Appoints Mzo Jojwana as Station Manager
702, part of Primedia Broadcasting, announced that station manager Thabisile Mbete is bidding farewell to the station to pursue a new career direction outside radio. Mzo Jojwana, who rejoined 702 last year after time with Power FM, will be taking up the role as 702 station manager. Jojwana, a 702 alumni, came back to the...
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Public Officials must be Accountable for their Constituencies – Analysis
This is not to say that we did not have an interest in how things would and did turn out, or that many of us were not invested in ensuring that we live the way we do now. Our towns and cities are ones we have built over the last generation; their inequalities, inequities, and...
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Chatbots: The Solution to SA’s Service Delivery Woes?
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni recently said that communities and businesses are becoming increasingly intolerant of municipalities that can neither deliver basic services nor conduct their administration effectively[i]. With lack of employee capacity being one of the root causes of poor service delivery[ii], Kyle Oosthuizen, Chief Operating Officer at Blue Robot, believes that chatbots could be a solution....
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Facebook and Instagram will Invest over $1 Billion on Content Creators with Huge Following
Facebook Inc the parent company of Facebook and Instagram to start paying users with huge following. According to Reuters, Facebook will spend $1 billion on social media creators through the end of 2022 in a fight for top talent announced in a week when TikTok became the first rival mobile app to hit 3 billion...
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Electric Bus Launched in Mother City, Cape Town
Electric bus took the street of Mother City, Cape Town following months of testing. Golden Arrow Bus Services, together with the Western Cape Department of Transport and Public Works, on Monday launched an active electric bus service. This comes after Golden Arrow first embarked on a “renewable energy” journey in 2017, when it installed two...