Netflix is set to release a new feature for children that will use short video clips – just like on social media platform TikTok – to advertise kids’ movies and shows. Called “Kids Clips,” the feature is slated to appear on Netflix’s iOS app and highlights snippets of children’s content from the streamer’s existing library,...
Day: <span>14 November 2021</span>
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MultiChoice’s DStv Premium and DStv Compact Plus is Bleeding Subscribers – Report
MultiChoice’s DStv Premium and DStv Compact Plus subscribers keep declining due to MultiChoice’s shift in focus to offer a bigger value proposition to mass-market customers on lower-tiered DStv bouquets, this shift will sooner or later have a knock-on effect and start to impact premium content budgets. It will likely become increasingly more difficult for MultiChoice...
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Absa Bank Group Board Fired Sipho Pityana as Lead Independent Director
Absa Bank board fired Sipho Pityana as its lead independent director, this comes after he took the SA Reserve Bank’s Prudential Authority (PA) to court. In a statement, the banking group announced its board had resolved that Pityana would cease to be lead independent director of the Absa Group and Absa Bank, with immediate effect. He’s...
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SARS is Faced with R9bn Deficit over the Next Three years – Commissioner Kieswetter
Based on the South African Revenue Service’s funding requirements and the funding allocated to it, it will run into a R9 billion deficit over the next three years, members of Parliament heard this week. SARS officials, including Commissioner Edward Kieswetter this week briefed the Standing Committee on Finance on the revenue service’s 2020/21 annual report....
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African Bank Awarded Bold as Preferred agency for Financial and Corporate PR Affairs
African Bank has appointed Bold, a Brave Group’s company to handle their financial and corporate public relations and marketing for the next three years. The newly appointed chief marketing officer of African Bank, Sbusiso Kumalo said, “the executive communication and advisory firm by partners Ndumiso Mngomezulu and Jeremy Maggs were able to bring strong strategic/creative...
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Opinion | FW de Klerk – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The last apartheid president: FW de Klerk maintained the system, and then he helped destroy it The death of FW de Klerk, the last apartheid head of state, is an inflection moment for South Africa, a country where history is never past. His death severs another link with our transition from an authoritarian, racist state...