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Meta starts charging South African businesses for customer service replies on 1 October, and only publishes the rate card on 1 September.
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Comsol owns the spectrum, the network and the core; the internet providers own the customer, the price and the complaints.
Each Prime Air hub covers about 175 square miles, and every community inside that range still has to approve the service for itself.
Food and drink inflation came in at 0,9% in July, the lowest since the month South Africa hosted the World Cup, and the rand had a good day for reasons decided in Washington.
The exchange has proposed dropping the diluted version of the profit-per-share figure and moving the main one outside the audited accounts, with comments open until 13 October.
The tailings retreatment group nearly doubled earnings to R4.25 billion, then used the results stage to ask its rivals to open their dumps to it.
Another R200m of software went to zero in the six months to June, almost three times last year's figure, and most of it again came out of head office.
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The revenue service has put a digital VAT model out for comment, and the road map inside the same paper does not have anyone obliged to move until the 2030s.
The Norwegian company takes 17.4% of a Chevron-operated licence with a well due to be tested this year, its first position in the country.
References buried in the US iPhone app describe payments between users inside direct messages, running on the same system that already handles TikTok Shop.
Bloomberg reports the bank wants into OPay before it lists in New York, with nothing signed and both sides declining to say a word.