The South African Reserve Bank's (Sarb's) authenticated collections system, DebiCheck, comes into operation on 1 May 2021...
Trevor Gosling and his co-founder, Neil Welman, launched Lulalend in 2014. The Lulalend team works hard to empower businesses across South Africa with the funds they need to grow...
Charndré Emma Kippie, Issued by Topco Media 15 Apr 2021
Planet Fitness announced that it has adopted the latest in smart payment collection technologies for enhanced management of membership payments...
Issued by Bitventure 26 Jan 2021
As 2021 gets into full swing, business owners are doing whatever they can to make this year's profit line tracks upwards...
Anton Oosthuizen 11 Jan 2021
South African small business owners are a resilient bunch; 86% of those recently surveyed by Retail Capital said that their business will survive the pandemic...
The pre-approved, turnover based funding is now available to Mr D Food restaurant partners and can be used for whatever the restaurant needs to run and possibly scale their business...
Schools are increasingly embracing the digital universe and now the Covid-19 pandemic has stratospherically accelerated the adoption of online communication and digital strategies for South African schools...
Various public and private sector entities have released wide-scale relief measures to help South African small to medium enterprises (SMEs) survive the Covid-19 business slowdown...
Andiswa Bata 4 Jun 2020
Insurance tends to be the first thing that falls away when finances get tight. But there are ways to save money without losing your cover...
Are you financially prepared for the cost of having to plan a possible funeral?
Issued by MiWayLife 24 Feb 2020
21 August is World Entrepreneurs' Day (WED). Designed to celebrate entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders around the world...
Colin Timmis, 21 Aug 2019
This is a watershed year for the banking sector as traditional banks face intense competition and disruption from new entrants such as Discovery Bank, Bank Zero and TymeBank...
Explore, launched by The Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA) and Rand Merchant Investments (RMI) fintech division, AlphaCode, has selected 20 candidates' fintech ideas to turn them into viable business models...
Are financial services providers able to cater to the demands of the next generation?...
Walter van der Merwe 6 Mar 2019
An Orchid to Spar. And an Onion to you, Telkom, because your marketing and your customer service is a mess...
Brendan Seery 29 Jan 2019
Entrepreneurs need capital to get a business off the ground, or to fund expansion, improve cash flow, or buy inventory to meet consumer demand...
Bradley Wattus 20 Dec 2018
The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday, 28 November 2018, handed down an interim order requiring the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to pay social grants into accounts chosen by grant beneficiaries...
If you have signed an employment contract that specifies something different to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, this will supersede what's outlined in the Act...
We've all had those moments of looking at our bank balance and wonder where all your money has gone, well FNB has launched a new app that keeps track of your spending at any time or place...
Nicci Botha 13 Jun 2018
Three years ago, tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) were introduced as an incentive for South Africans to save more...
René Grobler 12 Mar 2018
Although the shift in political outlook, and Team South Africa's campaigning at the World Economic Forum in Davos have set the rand on a dramatic positive turnaround, the country is not out of the woods just yet...
Maxime Eon created BiltongBoard to link local lovers of biltong with the small producers whose quality products were going unnoticed...
Lauren Hartzenberg 29 Sep 2017
Cape Town comedian and Good Hope FM radio presenter, Dalin Oliver, is back with a brand new stand-up comedy show, Face for Radio, following the sold-out success of his début one-man show, I Came, I Taught, I Left...
Juanita Pienaar 1 Sep 2017
South African banks take on average 31 hours and 56 minutes to respond to customer complaints...
Nico Gous 31 Aug 2017
The full list of winners for the 39th Annual Loerie Awards, which concluded on 20 August 2017 at the Durban ICC, have been announced. Congratulations to all...
Finalists have been announced in the Loeries' TV, film, video and radio communication categories. The TV, film and video communication category is sponsored by DStv while radio communication is sponsored by Gagasi FM...
The High Court has issued the declaratory order sought by Net 1 that the Social Assistance Act and recent Regulations promulgated in terms thereof do not restrict social grant recipients in their operation of their banks accounts...
It's that time of the year when may you find yourself with more month at the end of your money...
Issued by MiWay 24 Mar 2017
At the risk of stating the obvious, the current state of the South African economy is bleak. A new report from Standard Bank, released last month, found that 94.5% of South Africans...
Trevor Coetzee 25 Jul 2016
SNAPnSAVE, a Cape Town based start-up that gives shoppers cash back on everyday shopping items, simply for snapping their till slip, has grown to 130,000 users and paid back over R500,000 in cash.
A panel discussion by business IT leaders exploring the four strategic business technology leadership roles in SMEs will take place at Mazars. The discussion will expand on...
Data consumption is such a controversial topic in South Africa. With customers alleging their data has been 'stolen' or that the networks are not portraying the correct usage, billing disputes are the highest complaint category at all South African telecoms...
Issued by Mortimer Harvey 2 Oct 2015
If you are planning to spring clean your career, use an industrial strength ride-on scrubber rather than a light duster, as a comprehensive revamp is usually necessary if you are serious about revitalising your prospects...
Annelize van Rensburg 15 Sep 2015
We all have a credit score and are aware of how difficult it is to access any form of credit if our score is not good enough...
Denver Bright 2 Sep 2015
According to Glen Jordan, director of financial services provider IMB, South Africans continue to suffer from what many are calling a 'debt hangover'.
Fred Steffers, MD of payment systems company SmartCollect, says the new process of fining the originators of unauthorised debit orders up to R1,000 per debit order may go a long way to curb fraud in the industry...
Banks should do more to bring small traders into the banking net so that they can take advantage of systems such as debit orders and electronic funds transfer mechanisms to settle accounts rather than relying on cash payments...
Starting a business venture is always an exciting prospect but...
President Zuma may refer to challenges but as petrol, electricity and food costs go up and wages failed to match inflation, consumers and small businesses had better go into crisis mode....
Aki Kalliatakis 16 Mar 2015
On 20 February 2015, National Treasury issued a media statement indicating that the Minister of Finance approved the final notice and regulations introducing tax-free investments, which came into effect on 1 March 2015...
Mareli Treurnicht 10 Mar 2015
Banks are particularly cautious when assessing self-employed applications, due to the fact that their income fluctuates and cannot be guaranteed, and these individuals are understandably considered a higher risk than salaried persons...
Kathy East 24 Nov 2014
The key to ensuring that debit orders are correct is by using written mandates that authorise a company to process debit orders on a client account on a regular basis.