A year After South Africa went into lockdown, FNB’s data shows a big an upsurge in customers who are spending on home delivery, video and music streaming apps for convenient access to services.

Veritas Technologies, which is partnered with Nexio in South Africa, has published its white paper titled “Ransomware Resiliency with the Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform”.

Financial service firm Capitec has notified customers that it will ‘switch off’ its old app at the end of the month – 30 April 2021.

This week MoneywebNOW looked at cash vs equity returns; LVMH’s results; US and SA inflation expectations; Purple Group’s growth; tax and working from home; consumer spending trends and more.

Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment minister Barbara Creecy has outlined government’s push to phase out harmful plastics for recyclable alternatives.

Non-fungible tokens are unique trading tokens; an asset held digitally with a unique code attached to it.

Hammerson, whose centres include the Bullring and Brent Cross, is “resetting rents to more affordable levels”.

The International Monetary Fund says that taxes on high-income earners and corporations can help advanced economies raise revenues to recover from the global pandemic.

In an iOS update expected this month, Apple will start asking users for permission to track their data across apps.

Trend-Forward founder Dave Nemeth says bricks-and-mortar retailers are losing tenants and need to do longer-term planning and start doing ‘things never done before’.

It requires doing some basic due diligence, says Wiehann Olivier, digital asset lead and partner at Mazars.

Record fuel price increases are grabbing headlines at the moment, but home sellers should be even more concerned about the increases in municipal tariffs that will be implemented in just a few months’ time, says Gerhard Kotzé, managing director of the RealNet estate agency group.

SA had vaccinated 292 623 health-care workers as of April 15.

Tourism minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane says that South African tourism businesses have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic because of their focus on international travellers.

At least a third of French wine production this year, representing almost two billion euros in sales, will be lost due to a bout of unusually cold early spring weather, a federation said Wednesday.

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that online registrations for phase 2 of the country’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout will officially open at 16h00 on Friday (16 April).