SASSA beneficiaries water blasted while Lindiwe Zulu watches from Casspir comfort
Disabled people were blasted with water cannons after they failed to practice social distancing in growing queues outside a SASSA office.
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Welfare Minister washes her hands of SASSA crisis – assures payments won’t be disrupted
South African Welfare Minister Bathabile Dlamini denied she was responsible for failing to ensure plans are in place to dispense welfare grants to more than 17 million people when an existing disbursement contract with Net 1 UEPS Technologies ends on March 31.
🔒 WORLDVIEW: Here’s how to turn the SASSA noise into a profitable investment
The media is in a tizz over the possible suspension of South Africa’s social security agency SASSA’s payments to 10m welfare grant recipients.
Net1Q3 results: $0.47 EPS, SASSA tender
Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. reports its third quarter 2014 results, here are some extracts from the SENS report. Highlights: Revenue and Fundamental EPS of $138 million and $0.47, a constant currency increase of 60% and 1,070%Â respectively; BEE transactions implemented after quarter-end, and 4.4 million shares issued to BEE partners. Net1 has held a controversial … Read more
Breaking entrepreneurial ground – Zoezie’s Weigh & Pay, a grocer for the people
After being wiped out by the March 2019 COVID lockdown, serial entrepreneur Zuziwe Maphalala dusted herself off and started again with a grubstake of R2 000.
Unearthing bright minds in rural Limpopo for transformative education – Sumbandila’s Leigh Bristow
In the Vhembe district of Limpopo, one of South Africa’s poorest provinces, a non-profit organisation named Sumbandila Scholarship Trust was established
Corporate SA refuses to pay for political PR, but…Government splurges R75m on 5 000 BRICS cops…
Emma Louise Powell says that the Government spent over R75 million to deploy more than 5 000 cops to the 15th annual BRICS Summit in August.
Press release: South African Post Office BRPs provide update on business rescue
Joint Business Rescue Practitioners are working with the South African Post Office as they grapple with R12.5 billion in liabilities.
Lesaka – JSE’s (only?) exponential tech stock is back on track, a play on SA’s informal sector
The company now called Lesaka may well be the exponential growth opportunity South African investors haven’t seen since the glory years of Naspers.
The SA engine below deck is in deep trouble – Patrick McLaughlin
Patrick McLaughlin uncovers the harsh reality of South Africa’s divided society and its impact on local governance in this thought-provoking article.