Coinciding with Future Hospitality Summit Africa 2025, Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today announced plans to almost triple its presence in Africa to more than 160 hotels trading in the coming years. Across its portfolio of market-leading brands, Hilton expects to open more than 100 hotels on the continent, supporting Africa’s burgeoning hospitality sector and creating approximately…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. And, as much as it’s changing the world in cool ways like music, art, gaming and technological advancements, scammers are using it too, to attempt to defraud you. With South Africans of all ages spending hours online, staying alert to AI-driven fraud has become increasingly important. “Fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated, and…
Sasol has appointed Sandile Siyaya as Executive Vice President: Mining, with effect from 1 September 2025, with the retirement of Hermann Wenhold, EVP: Mining, SHE and Risk. Sandile has spent most of his career at Sasol having been awarded a Sasol bursary to study Mining Engineering. He joined Sasol Mining in 2007 as an EIT…
Sasol has announced the appointment of Thabile Makgala as Executive Vice President (EVP): People, SHE, Risk and Corporate Affairs. She joins Sasol on 1 October 2025. An Inspirational Women in Mining and Harvard Business School alumni, Thabile will join Sasol from Rio Tinto, where she currently serves as the Vice President for Health, Safety, Environment,…
Daisy Lesenyego The Johannesburg Social Housing Company (JOSHCO) has launched a new Digital Application Process to streamline applications for affordable rental housing, enhance security, and combat fraud. This innovative system aims to guide residents through a transparent application journey, ensuring clarity and preventing misinformation. Central to the new process is a QR code-based pre-screening registration, serving as the…
Become more aware of how you’re spending your cash and you’ll be able to live within your means. You got through your Grade 12 exams and now you’ve made the wise decision to expand your education further – congrats! Even more exciting is that you’ll be spending the next few years living as a student….
To commemorate Youth Month under the 2025 theme, ‘Skills for the Changing World – Empowering Youth for Meaningful Economic Participation’, Vodacom has launched a new data bundle for customers on the NXT LVL (pronounced next level) programme. Dubbed ‘Super Content’ and targeted especially for content creators, the new 25GB Super Content Bundle gives customers 5GB…
Performance underpinned by like-for-like volume growth and significant traction on portfolio optimisation Tiger Brands has delivered a strong set of results for the six months ended 31 March 2025, achieved through a continued focus on driving value for consumers, executing key strategic priorities, and continuous improvement initiatives of logistics optimisation, value engineering and factory efficiencies….
The Minister of Finance’s decision to proceed with an above-inflation excise increase on beer in Budget 3.0 is intensifying pressure on beer producers and is likely to further encourage the illicit alcohol trade, warns the Beer Association of South Africa (BASA). South Africa’s beer producers continue to face escalating input costs, weakening consumer demand, and…
For many small businesses in South Africa, growth is often limited not by ambition, but by lack of access, to capital, to markets, and to the kind of visibility that attracts new customers. Too often, entrepreneurs struggle to scale due to limited exposure, insufficient funding, and lack of access to tailored business support. The right…
