The Banking Association of South Africa (BASA) says that as of 27 February 2021, R18.01 billion in loans had been approved by banks and taken up by small businesses under the Covid-19 Loan Guarantee Scheme. Source: BusinessTech
The National Treasury has published its updated ‘Operation Vulindlela’ plan, detailing the government’s strategy to boost the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic. Source: BusinessTech
Energy expert Chris Yelland said South Africans should generate their own electricity and not look to the state or Eskom for solutions. Source: MyBroadband
AstraZeneca Plc’s embattled coronavirus vaccine didn’t offer much protection against mild disease caused by the variant that emerged in South Africa in a study that prompted the country to seek other immunizations last month. Source: BusinessTech
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) will launch an urgent appeal against the North Gauteng High Court’s decision to grant Telkom and Etv an interdict against the high demand spectrum auction. Source: MyBroadband
Attacq, the JSE-listed REIT developing Waterfall City and its JV Partner, Tricolt, have announced that total sales for the Ellipse Waterfall development has exceeded R1 billion. Source: BusinessTech
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has approved a section 21 emergency-use application for the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Source: BusinessTech
South Africa, Colombia and other middle-income countries hit hard by Covid have lined up behind richer ones to buy vaccines in hopes of averting more suffering. Source: BusinessTech
The Ministry of Communications and Digital Technologies has started with the phased switch-off of analogue television transmitters in the Free State. Source: MyBroadband
Liquid Intelligent Technologies (LIT) has said that delaying the release of high-demand spectrum in South Africa further is “not great” for the country. Source: MyBroadband
