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SA companies are seeing surprising benefits to remote work - and now plan for a 'blended' model

Written by Super User on 21 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Garth Theunissen

Almost six months ago, companies were forced to move corporate operations from offices to makeshift workplaces in living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms across South Africa – with surprising consequences.

Clicks to work with inter-ministerial team on transformation

Written by Super User on 17 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Francesca Villette

Health and beauty retailer Clicks will work with an inter-ministerial team including the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, to implement and monitor transformation initiatives.

Pick n Pay denies locking women in cold room

Written by Super User on 17 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Staff Writer

Pick n Pay has denied claims that two women were detained in a cold storage room at their Witbank store earlier this month.

SA now in the 'post-Covid new normal', says Prof Salim Abdool Karim

Written by Super User on 15 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Unathi Nkanjeni

Prof Salim Abdool Karim says SA is now in a “post-Covid new normal” but worries that “super-spreader” events could spark a second resurgence in cases.

Dis-Chem joins list of retailers removing TRESemmé products from shelves

Written by Super User on 11 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Reuters

Dis-Chem Pharmacies has joined a growing list of retailers removing TRESemmé products, a Unilever Plc brand, from their shelves after a hair advertisement was which deemed racist.

Clicks stores to remove TRESemme products after backlash over ad

Written by Super User on 09 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

South Africa's Clicks Group has said it will remove all TRESemme products from its shelves after an advertisement posted on the retailer's website was accused of being racist.

Court grants Clicks interdict against EFF shutdown

Written by Super User on 08 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Bernadette Wicks

The High Court in Pretoria has interdicted the EFF and those ‘acting in concert with it or pursuant to instructions from it’- from inciting violence against Clicks’ and intimidating its customers and staff.

Government warns Clicks about what it needs to do to ‘make things right’

Written by Super User on 08 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Staff Writer

Minister for Small Business Development Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says that she rejects the apology issued by Clicks management and has instead outlined alternatives that the business should follow instead.

Spar Board of Directors set for major makeover

Written by Super User on 08 September 2020. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: Sandile Mchunu

THE SPAR Group’s board of directors is set for a makeover next year following the retirement of long-serving chairperson Mike Hankinson after 16 years at the helm.