Amazon’s ‘local is lekker’ strategy taps into growth potential

Online retail giant Amazon.com, which started as a bookseller in 1995 out of founder Jeff Bezos’s garage, launched a South African shopping portal with a .co.za domain yesterday as it…

Using guava tea to fight colds, flu

With winter on us, we can brace ourselves for colds and flu cases that tend to make their rounds this time of the year. Nagging coughs, fever and sniffles are…

Stanchart under FBCH: Here’s what you need to know

Enacy Mapakame Standard Chartered Bank Zimbabwe (SCBZ) will migrate to its new owners FBC Holdings (FBCH) this month following approvals of the transactions by various stakeholders. Following the migration, scheduled…

Total wealth held by Big Apple’s residents now exceeds US$3 trillion

Business Report When it comes to the number of resident millionaires with liquid investable wealth of $1 million (R18.5m) or more, the US leads the pack, with 11 cities in…

Mitsubishi Triton Shogun touches down in SA

The new Mitsubishi Triton Shogun is priced at R809,900. Pictures: Mitsubishi SA. The all-new Mitsubishi Triton is set to hit our shores in the second half of this year, but…

Zim seeks fertiliser solutions at COMESA Soil Health Summit:

Enacy Mapakame Zimbabwe is expected to benefit from the vast expertise on soil health at the ongoing COMESA Special Summit of the African Union on Fertiliser and Soil Health in…

Imagine SA without Anglo American

The story of South Africa’s modern economy cannot be told without Anglo American, the giant mining conglomerate that also owns De Beers. It was the Kimberley diamond rush in 1867…

US$300k interim working capital secured for Zulu lithium project

Oliver Kazunga Business Writer DIVERSIFIED mining group, Premier African Minerals has secured US$300 000 interim working capital loan facility from Zimbabwean lenders to support the development of its Zulu lithium…

An end to El Niño and likely return of La Niña

Major weather forecasters, including the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, recently confirmed this view. We are currently in a neutral state,…

Spar Group lists on A2X

SE-listed Spar Group announced on Wednesday that it has received approval for a secondary listing on A2X Markets, with its shares set to be tradable on the platform from 15…

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