Cape Argus 2021-12-08

A BRIGHT burning candle of our revolution has flickered and faded but its light will forever glow in our hearts. Described as gentle and courageous, quiet yet brave and wise yet humble, comrade Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim (Ebie) represented the quintessential best of what our movement stands for and the personification of the character South Africa, as a nation, needs in these difficult times. His life was the living embodiment of the values that shaped the ANC over its 107-year history. Those of us who grew up in the ranks of the Struggle are familiar with the theory of the new man but, in comrade Ebie, we could all witness its living manifestation. He was a light unto others. His example is much-needed today in order to build a new…

Banele Ginindza banele.ginindza@inl.co.za A LOCAL entrepreneur has initiated a virtual e-hailing platform for bakkies and trucks to enable users to hail commercial vehicles electronically. According to Mcebo Vilakati, so far, 125 vehicles in the Midrand, Johannesburg, Centurion and Pretoria areas are available on Palanto, which allows customers to book a trip by choosing pick-up and drop-off locations. “Users who require last-minute deliveries are now able to connect to bakkie and truck owners without surfing through hundreds of classified advertisements. “Among others, this platform seeks to benefit traders who stock up their inventory at the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market that opens its doors at 4am daily,” he said. Palanto offers an efficient way to move any load from 0.8 ton to 8 ton trucks. The platform also enables people…

AS THE SECOND year of the Covid-19 pandemic draws to a close, I have been taking stock of the past 12 months, which have by many accounts been some of the toughest our country has faced in many years. I’m not the first person, and I won’t be the last to consider how Covid has shaped and changed us. However, I do look at the world, and business in particular, through the very specific lens of culture, and that is how I’ve been analysing the past year and asking: Where to from here? The fierce grip of uncertainty Right now, almost everyone I meet or work with is in some form of survival mode, trying to deal with the uncertainty of a pandemic that has dragged on longer than anyone…

Given Majola given.majola@inl.co.za SOME 17.5 percent of all global e-commerce transactions and 7.8 percent of South African transactions made between November 25 and 29 were potentially fraudulent, according to TransUnion’s findings released yesterday. TransUnion examined global e-commerce fraud trends that occurred during the busiest period of this year’s holiday shopping season. Globally, this was 3.7 percent higher than the same five-day period leading up to cyber-Monday last year. For transactions originating from South Africa, the percentage increased by 4.2 percent when comparing those same periods. The global information and insights company said these findings were based on intelligence from billions of transactions contained in TransUnion’s fraud analytics solution suite, TruValidate. The analysis also found the top two reasons potentially fraudulent e-commerce transactions globally identified during this…

SOUTH Africa’s land reform programme has been adversely affected by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic coupled with the challenging economic environment, which has resulted in budgetary cuts and reallo- cation of resources to other priority areas, says the Vumelana Advisory Fund, a non-profit organisation that supports land reform. Vumelana chief executive Peter Setou said that lack of funding re- mained one of the biggest challenges affecting beneficiaries of land reform. However, the beneficiary communities, whose land had been restituted as part of the land reform programme, could now access funding from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) to develop their land productively and scale up their farms into successful commercial enterprises. This development follows the launch of the Agri-Industrial Fund by the state-owned funder and the Department of Agriculture,…

THE PRINCES AND THE PRESS M-NET, DSTV CHANNEL 101, 7.30PM Using over 80 hours of interview footage gathered from journalists assigned to cover royal affairs, the BBC’s media editor Amol Rajan spotlights contrasting approaches in the media’s approaches to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex UFOS: SECRET ALIEN TECHNOLOGY HISTORY, DSTV CHANNEL 186, 9.05PM In the 70 years since the famed Roswell UFO crash, there is a long history of allegations involving alien phenomena and supposed government cover-ups. This special takes a hard look at the most famous – and the lesser known – UFO reports that some believe have been deliberately hidden from the public. THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT ME, DSTV CHANNEL 115, 10.50PM A thrilling season premiere. When a flight attendant meets…