Author: Staff Writer
By working together, Pick n Pay and Mr D have just made online grocery shopping much better, easier, and more exciting for customers. Using the Mr D app, all your favourite Pick n Pay products can now be delivered right to your door. By bringing together the best of Pick n Pay and Mr D, customers can now order what they want, when they want it, quickly and easily, using the tried, trusted, and hugely popular Mr D app. “This new dedicated grocery shopping experience with Pick n Pay through the Mr D app allows customers to shop over 10,000…
Mercedes-Benz South Africa Limited (MBSA) announces a key executive appointments within its Sales & Marketing and Aftersales operations. Selvin Govender, currently responsible for Marketing and Sales for Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA), will take over the position of Vice President and Director for Marketing and Sales for Mercedes-Benz GDs Europe, Middle East & Africa (MBGD), effective 1 February 2023. Commenting on Govender’s departure, Mark Raine, Co-CEO of Mercedes-Benz Cars and Executive Director of MBSA said: “Govender has been synonymous with the Mercedes-Benz brand for over two decades and has been integral in leading the company’s enviable brand in the premium automotive…
Vodacom Business Africa is committed to supporting the internationalisation of multinational businesses into Africa. Testament to this is continuous development of innovative solutions to keep clients securely and reliably connected. Having successfully deployed its Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) solution to several businesses in South Africa, Vodacom Business Africa is now making the offering accessible to clients in all 47 operating countries across its African footprint. “By launching this offering into Africa, we’re eliminating connectivity barriers that growing businesses are contending with. These include increasing cybersecurity threats, escalating data demands and costs, as well as slow or unresponsive digital applications…
New-age solutions and systems integrator, +OneX, has acquired South Africa’s leading Citrix on Azure solutions provider, EUCafrica, as part of its strategy to build a group that can deliver end-to-end digital transformation solutions to enterprise clients. The acquisition strengthens +OneX’s capabilities in end-user computing by adding one of South Africa’s leading specialists in the desktop-as-a-service and desktop virtualisation space to the fold. EUCafrica has unique credentials in South Africa’s end-user computing market, having attained both Citrix Platinum Solution Advisor Status as well as Microsoft Gold Cloud Competency certification. The company has helped leading retail, finance, public sector and technology clients…
Jumo, a technology company advancing next-generation financial inclusion in emerging markets, today released Vela, a pioneering asset management engine built to give investors access to real social impact investments at the highest standards of governance and control. Vela is a powerful asset management tool underpinned by Jumo’s proven AI and machine learning capabilities that seeks to democratise access to funding. Vela allocates multi-currency funds (US$ and crypto) to select portfolios, making it possible for qualifying investors to put money to work alongside pan-African banks and watch it perform in real time. Andrew Watkins-Ball, JUMO Founder and CEO, said: “This is…
Waterfall City today hosted an exclusive tour of the award‐winning 2 200-hectare Waterfall precinct to celebrate the launch of its official rebrand to ‘Waterfall City’. Guests were given a guided tour of Waterfall City, including stops at several of its iconic sites, each of which revealed an aspect of the city’s newly launched cornerstones: Connection, Commerce, Care and Community. Over the past decade, Waterfall City has emerged as a world‐class metropolitan city offering an attractive lifestyle in a smart, safe, secure and connected environment. It has become synonymous with residential excellence and has grown into the economic hub of Gauteng.…
International calling app Talk360, which enables people around the world to make reliable and affordable calls to any landline or mobile phone worldwide, has secured an additional $3 million in seed round funding, taking its total seed round to $7 million after its first closing in May. The funds will help the company grow its market share in South Africa, drive its growth on the rest of the continent and launch its market first pan-African payment platform in 2023. The latest round of funding includes new South African investors like Allan Gray E2 Ventures (AGEV), Kalon Venture Partners, E4E Africa,…
MTN may be Africa’s most famous yellow brand but MTN South Africa’s head office is quickly “going green” as plans to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040 gain further momentum. To secure and procure reliable energy, MTN South Africa this week launched a request for proposal (RFP) which will see the MTN Headquarters becoming a completely “green” office. Phase 1 involves the procurement of providers for alternative energy rooftops and solar carparks and this forms part of the company’s broader Project Zero initiative, which explores all forms of renewable energy on a large and smaller scale. MTN SA CEO…
Community Investment Ventures Holdings (CIVH) today unveiled the identity of the parent company to its two fibre network assets – both will now be known as companies of MAZIV. “This is revealed amidst impressive market performances by both operating companies within the CIVH group with a 4.1% growth of DFA revenue to R2.5 billion – a result of the brand’s annuity income increase to R198 million per month as of 31 March 2022, from R192 million per month in the previous year. Subscriber growth was the main driver behind Vumatel’s substantial 26.3% revenue increase, to R3 billion,” says CIVH Chairman,…
A rethink of how companies approach B-BBEE (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) is needed given sluggish targets of late. Failure to meet these targets can be attributed to one thing, and one thing alone: cost. Yet, the true value of B-BBEE and empowerment is its ability to positively change people’s lives and driving skills development is one of the best drivers to do this. This is according to Prudence Mathebula, co-founder and managing director of Dynamic DNA, a 51% black female-owned, B-BBEE level two accredited QSE training and skills development provider. All the elements on the B-BBEE scorecard require some financial investment from…