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SBA Communications is among the founding members of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) TowerCo Forum, a new continental initiative focused on fostering the policy, regulatory and investment environment needed to accelerate digital infrastructure development across Africa. Alongside fellow founding members, American Tower and Helios Towers, SBA has signed the Forum Charter and will ...

Good evening, and thank you for welcoming me back to the University of South Africa.

I want to start today with an old magazine cover. It’s from Time magazine, dated 15 February 1999, with the title ‘The Committee to Save the World’. There are three men pictured, all Americans: Alan Greenspan, the Chair of the United States (US) Federal Reserve; Bob Rubin, the US Treasury Secretary; and his ...

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The African Continental Free Trade Area signed a $3.1 billion deal with Nigerian company Bergmans Security Consultants to deploy a customs system aimed at improving trade in Africa.

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Kathy Gibson reports form Johannesburg – Cisco and Jozi My Jozi today launched a new partnership aimed at harnessing technology to help develop the Johannesburg inner city.

The new initiative, Masibambisane, is part of Cisco’s global 40 Communities social impact programme that brings together technology, cross-sector partnerships and community leadership in 40 cities around the world.

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Mandela Day offers a moment to reflect on the importance of community support, but for Massmart and FoodForward SA, addressing food insecurity requires action beyond a single day.

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For Martin Sweet, being named Best CEO at the CSI Legacy Awards isn’t a personal achievement. Rather, he sees it as recognition for thousands of young South Africans whose lives have been transformed through the work of his company Primestars over the past 21 years.

U.S - South Africa Relations

Roelf Meyer arrived in Washington, DC, on Friday, 24 July, eager to deploy his considerable negotiation skills to tackle the challenging task of repairing South Africa’s damaged relations with the US. He is encouraged by what he detected on a “scoping exercise” to the US capital late last year “that we still have a lot of friends in America, on both sides of the house, Republicans as well as ...

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Amazon Prime and Prime Day are reshaping South African e-commerce. Robert Koen explains what Amazon learned from its first local Prime Day and what it means for shoppers, sellers and the future of online retail.

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U.S - South Africa Relations

The United States has brought its Section 301 forced-labour tariffs into force, placing South Africa in the highest duty band and adding a fresh layer of cost to an export relationship already strained by earlier trade measures.

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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, 23 July 2026 – Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (Manufacturing) (Pty) Ltd has achieved Gold in the 2026 National Automobile Dealers' Association (NADA) Dealer Satisfaction Index (DSI) Awards, following independent feedback from dealer principals across Ford South Africa's 118-dealer network.