Checkers customers can now insure their pets from R89 a month with an exclusive insurance product created specifically for them.

Eskom has admitted to exceeding stage 4 load-shedding limits, which energy advisor Ted Blom said shows the power utility is lying about which stage they have implemented.

The spread of Covid-19 has led to a surge in staycations and camping trips in the northern hemisphere, and Shoprite and Checkers are gearing up for a bumper camping and outdoor season.

The Shoprite/Checkers Group has confirmed it has ended it's relationship with Unilever’s TRESemmé brand and will be removing the products from their almost 3000 stores on the African continent.

Retailers have already removed stock of Liqui Fruit’s red grape juice from their shelves following a glass particles scare.

South African IT consultant Warren Pala has spent the last two decades introducing Americans to South Africa’s favourite dried meat snack.

Mobile communications company Vodacom Group announced on Tuesday (01 September 2020) that all its employees, regardless of their gender and sexual orientation, would be offered 16 weeks (four months) of fully paid parental leave.

As more of the economy reopens under level 2 of the Covid-19 lockdown, Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has announced that it would be re-establishing its Youth Empowerment Programme (YEP), which aims to equip township youth with the skills and knowledge they need to potentially manage “Bizniz in a Box” spaza shops.

South Africa’s RCL Foods reported an annual loss on Monday reflecting the impact of Covid-19 and a 1.5 billion rand ($90 million) impairment on its assets, but pleased investors by announcing a dividend and indicating signs of recovery.

Checkers Little Garden is back by popular demand, with millions of locally produced seedling kits that created employment for more than 150 people.

Tiger Brands, one of the largest food manufacturers in Africa, has entered into two separate agreements to sell its value-added meat product business units as going concerns.

In an otherwise sterling trading update, Clicks warned that is pharmacy sales have been hit by the lack of the traditional winter cold and flu season in South Africa.