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23 Nov 2021

SA bag closing company bucks the trend and stays resilient during COVID-19

By Varushka Padayachi

‘The business has always focused on supplying the best quality packaging equipment and today it has become Africa’s largest supplier of industrial bag stitching machines and heat sealing systems’ ‘The business has always focused on supplying the best quality packaging equipment and today it has become Africa’s largest supplier of industrial bag stitching machines and heat sealing systems’ Over...
15 Feb 2021

ICA claimants ‘a step closer to receiving fair claims settlement from Santam’

By Staff Writer

nsurance Claims Africa (ICA) says it believes that businesses in the tourism and hospitality sector are a step closer to having their claims resolved fairly “as Santam abandons all targets of its intended appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal, save for the length of the indemnity period.”       On Tuesday 16 February, the Western Cape...
11 Jun 2020

Merchant Capital throws restaurants a lifeline during lockdown

By Varushka Padayachi

Alternative lender Merchant Capital has launched an innovative short-term finance product to give restaurants a much-needed injection of working capital to help ease the economic impact of the national lockdown regulations.
28 Apr 2020

Café Bellevue reopens to serve meals to the needy

By Varushka Padayachi

Entering week 5 of the lockdown with restaurants still unable to open their doors to customers, Cafe Bellevue has decided to reopen its kitchens to cook food for the needy.

20 Apr 2020

'We will come out of this stronger' - A restaurateur’s experience of COVID-19

By Varushka Padayachi

By: Larry Hodes, owner of Calexico On Monday 16 March; when the rumours of COVID-19 began getting more serious; there was an immediate drop off in customers in my three restaurants. In the next 10 days my turnover would decrease by between 80 to 100% in my restaurants. When the new liquor laws were announced...
06 Apr 2020

Track your symptoms with the CoronaFighter WebApp

By Staff Writer

With the CoronaFighter, web-enabled app you can track your symptoms through a simplified self monitoring process. During this uncertain time, it is all too easy to feel powerless in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. Now more than ever, many of us are looking for a way to educate ourselves with accurate information, soothe our...
06 Apr 2020

Mondi adapts manufacturing plant to produce elastic straps for face masks

By Staff Writer

Mondi continues to produce important supplies and components during the COVID-19 outbreak. As a global leader in packaging and paper, Mondi’s Personal Care Components team has found a way to convert a production line at its Gronau plant in Germany to manufacture soft, elastic straps which are now being used for face masks and used...
03 Apr 2020

Pienaar Bros stays open during the lockdown with stringent safety measures in place

By Staff Writer

As a manufacturer and distributor of PPE products, Pienaar Bros has been deemed an essential service and will remain open during the lockdown. Due to the spread of the COVID 19 virus in South Africa and in an effort to slow the spread of the virus in South Africa, a “state of disaster” was declared...
30 Mar 2020

Radical Waters continues operations during lockdown

By Staff Writer

Radical Waters has obtained a Certificate of Operation from the CIPC to continue operations during the national lockdown period.