Category: <span>Business</span>

Television personality and businessperson Boitumelo Thulo, aka Boity, celebrated the launch of her range of premium alcoholic and non-alcoholic sparkling fruit beverages in style this week. In true celebrity style, Thulo hosted BT Signature’s star-studded, intimate launch event with 50 of her closest celebrity friends and family members at the luxurious AtholPlace House and Villa...

TikTok has announced a multi-year licensing agreement which covers 58 territories across the African continent. The deal will see South African songwriters, composers, and music publishers paid royalties when their music is used on the video-sharing social networking service. TikTok is estimated to have more than six million users in South Africa, according to the 2020...

The New Development Bank of the Brics Group has on Thursday approved a $1 billion loan to the South African government to help with economic recovery due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes as the country battles record unemployment of around 32.5%. The New Development Bank said in a statement on Thursday that the loan would support...

Google Doodle celebrates the 116th birthday of English-born South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Joseph on April 8, 2021. Who is Helen Joseph? Helen Beatrice Joseph (8 April 1905 – 25 December 1992) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Born in Sussex, England, Helen graduated with a degree in English from the University of London in 1927 and then departed for India,...

Dubai will deport a group of people involved in a naked photo shoot on a high-rise balcony in the emirate, authorities said after criticising the incident as out of line with the values of the United Arab Emirates. The group of naked women posing for a photographer last week along a balcony railing in the...

The new South African online marketplace Everyshop has officially launched, offering delivery across Mzansi, this comes after a month of public testing in March. Everyshop is part of Pepkor’s JD Group, the operator of local retail chains like Russels, Bradlows, HiFi Corporation and Incredible Connection. The marketplace has been described as a likely Takealot competitor, with an...

Prince Harry will produce a documentary about the Invictus Games for disabled military veterans — the first series under a lucrative deal he and wife Meghan Markle signed with Netflix after moving to California last year. Harry, who served with the British military in Afghanistan, will appear on camera and executive-produce “Heart of Invictus,” a...

China’s ByteDance has told an Indian court that a government freeze on its bank accounts in a probe of possible tax evasion amounts to harassment and was done illegally, according to a filing seen by Reuters. ByteDance in January reduced its Indian workforce after New Delhi maintained a ban on its popular video app TikTok,...

Apple CEO Tim Cook rarely provides details on unannounced products, but he offered some hints about Apple’s thinking on augmented reality and cars in an interview with Kara Swisher for The New York Times. When it comes to augmented reality, he agreed with Swisher’s framing that the tech is “critically important” to Apple’s future and said it...

South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) sports fans have been asking for a sports channel for many year, finally their prayers have been answered.  The national broadcaster will be launching a stand alone sports channel in the coming few months including other new channels. This comes after eMedia Investments, the parent company of Openview, a satellite...