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Top South African CEO going out with a bang

Today at 12:00 PM, via Daily Investor

The company that runs the biggest stock exchange in Africa has posted a record financial performance, and a special dividend to shareholders along with it.

Business

Major bank in South Africa up for sale

Today at 11:00 AM, via BusinessTech

Bidvest has formally relaunched the sale process for its discontinued banking operation, in the hope of finding a new buyer after its sale to Access Bank collapsed.

Education

Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones

Today at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore

The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For years, we were told the danger came from the left: oversensitive students, censorious activists, no-platforming...

Education

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile

In order to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary in which many of them have starring roles, pupils at Karabash School No 1 have had to source bootlegged copies, viewing the...

Science/Tech

First Capital Bank And SA’s PayInc Partner for 24/7 Cross-Border Payments

Today at 11:27 AM, via Tech Financials

The Transactions Cleared on an Immediate Basis (TCIB) Cross-border Payments Scheme, operated by PayInc, has achieved a new milestone through its collaboration with First Capital Bank (FCB) Botswana, for activating payments into Botswana. With the Botswana corridor now live, this partnership is driven by the seamless integration of the TCIB multi-currency, cross-border digital platform into […]

Science/Tech

Pick n Pay Clothing Has Launched On The Pick n Pay Asap! App

Today at 11:17 AM, via Tech Financials

Pick n Pay Clothing is now available to millions more customers nationwide following its launch on the Pick n Pay asap! app, making affordable, quality clothing easier to access through a platform customers already use every day for their daily grocery needs. This is another step in Pick n Pay asap’s evolution from an on-demand […]

Health

Banks Are Becoming Bulwarks for Vulnerable Seniors

Saturday at 15:23 PM, via New York Times

Older Americans are losing billions of dollars annually to financial exploitation. Banks and investment firms are training employees to spot red flags and stop the transactions.