The Fairwork Project has launched its third round of yearly ratings for digital platforms in South Africa, which highlight the precarious nature of work in the gig economy. Source: BusinessTech
Ratings agency S&P Global says that while it maintains a stable credit outlook for South Africa, the country’s economic challenges include a heavy fiscal burden and weak economic growth, particularly on a per capita basis. Source: BusinessTech
South Africa’s March 2021 employment levels were similar to February 2020 after a partial employment recovery in adjusted lockdown level 1- but the official statistics don’t tell the full story data from the latest National Income Dynamics Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) survey shows. Source: BusinessTech
As South Africa battles with a third wave of Covid-19 infections, grocery retailers say that they have been inundated with orders for online deliveries. Source: BusinessTech
DP World plans to buy South Africa’s Imperial Logistics Ltd for $890 million (R12.7 billion), in what the port operator said would be its most significant acquisition in Africa so far. Source: BusinessTech
Nedbank says that South Africa’s move to an adjusted level 4 lockdown will disrupt but not wholly derail the economic recovery. Source: BusinessTech
Gareth Friedlander is deputy chief executive officer at Discovery Life, where he has been an instrumental part of the company’s innovative research and development for over a decade. Source: BusinessTech
The number of Covid-related deaths in South Africa continues to rise – above 400 for each of the past three days, while excess deaths in the country climbed to their highest level since January. Source: BusinessTech
Communications and digital technologies minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has published additional rules for couriers and deliveries under South Africa’s adjusted level 4 lockdown. Source: BusinessTech
The Electoral Commission (IEC) has postponed the voter registration weekend by two weeks because of the third wave of Covid-19 currently sweeping the country. Source: BusinessTech
