Devilsdorp: Showmax brings true crime closer to home with Krugersdorp Killings docu-series

Devilsdorp Showmax

Hell comes closer to home in the first-look trailer for Devilsdorp, the first Showmax Original true crime docu-series, which will be available to binge from 29 July 2021. ALSO READ: Uthando Lodumo: Showmax takes viewers inside Babes Wodumo and Mampintsha’s marriage In 2016, a spate of brutal Appointment Murders gripped the town of Krugersdorp, leaving …

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Shoprite Group makes urgent plea to vaccinate its frontline workers as third wave hits

Shoprite Group

The Shoprite Group is urgently calling on Government to allow its more than 140 000 employees, who serve over 25 million people a month, to receive vaccinations as the third wave of Covid-19 increases in severity. The supermarket group is South Africa’s largest private sector employer, and believes it is critical that Government prioritises the …

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How robust batteries can keep the rail industry on track

First National Battery

South Africa has the largest rail network on the continent, spanning more than 21 000km. Even though the rail industry struggles as infrastructure needs repairs and replacement, rail transport remains an efficient way to move goods and passengers across the country. In addition, President Ramaphosa says that rail transport is vital in reviving the country’s …

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Shoprite invests R700 million to upskill unemployed youth

The Shoprite Group Jobs

The Shoprite Group has spent more than R700 million over the past five years on extensive retail skills and training programmes to enhance the career options of South Africa’s unskilled and unemployed youth. This has been expended on training 24 308 people in the Group’s own Retail Readiness Programme, providing 1 027 bursaries, and training …

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Shoprite steps in to assist in Johannesburg hospital water crisis

Shoprite steps in to assist in Johannesburg hospital water crisis

The Shoprite Group has heeded the call from Gift of the Givers to assist in the water crisis currently crippling Johannesburg hospitals – and it has empowered customers to donate directly to the humanitarian organisation’s work on the ground. The Group will use its Act for Change Fund till-point donation facility to raise funds for Gift of …

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Checkers Sixty60 now available in all SA provinces

Checkers Sixty60 South Africa

Checkers Sixty60 is now available in all nine provinces in South Africa – after launching in Polokwane, Limpopo, today – and has created more than 2 100 new jobs since this one-hour on-demand grocery delivery service was first launched in late 2019. ALSO READ: Checkers wins big at the Marketing Achievement Awards with Sixty60 and …

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The Shoprite Group is raising funds to address the issue of stunting

Ritebrand & Housebrand raising funds for stunting

The Shoprite Group has a fundraising drive in all of its 764 Shoprite, Checkers and Checkers Hyper supermarkets countrywide in an effort to combat stunting, which impacts 1.5 million South African children, with 3 out of every 10 children suffering chronic malnutrition. A percentage of the sale of each packet of Shoprite Ritebrand and Checkers …

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Grassroots netballers to benefit from Twizza Tournament

Twizza

Twizza, a proudly South African carbonated beverage company, has once more pinned their sponsorship colours to the netball goal posts. They have rallied behind a club level tournament aimed at developing grass roots players in local communities into fully fledged SA stars. ALSO READ: Twizza proud to be part of the post-COVID return of the …

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How an innovative smaller supplier helped to keep tomatoes on Shoprite shelves – using an efficient greenhouse hydroponic system

Andrew Emslie of Red Baron and Luvuyo Mpontshane Manager

Heavy rains in Limpopo during January and February have caused havoc in the tomato industry in recent weeks – but by diversifying its supply chain, and partnering with innovative suppliers like Red Baron, the Shoprite Group was able to keep tomatoes on its supermarkets’ shelves. ALSO READ: Shoprite offers bursaries for Retail Business Management and …

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Acer continues to outpace rivals in the Chromebook market

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Acer seals its leadership in the Chromebook market by revealing new features for the new Chromebook 311. Based on an ARM Octa Core processor, it has enough power for up to 15 hours of use throughout the day. Low cost, yet versatile, the Acer Chromebook 311 is aimed at families and college students who like …

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