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In March 2020, TFG announced that, during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, the company would cease to pay rents for its retail locations during the resultant lockdowns in South Africa. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] During the course of 2020, TFG acquired the chain of Jet stores from an ailing Edcon , further expanding their footprint as a retail conglomerate.
Truworths is a Cape Town-based, South African clothing retailer, with 728 stores in South Africa, and 49 elsewhere in Africa. [2]Founded as The Alliance Trading Company in 1917, Truworths sells clothing under a number of different brands, including Truworths Man, UZZI, and LTD, [3] employs over 11,000 people, and generates over R18 billion in annual revenue.
Mr Price Group is a cash-based fashion-value retailer, and is a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.Established in 1985, the retailer has 2,900 stores which are mainly in South Africa, as well as online channels.
Beaufort West was the first town to be established in the central Karoo. The town was founded in 1818 and initially named Beaufort after Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, who was the father of Lord Charles Henry Somerset, then governor of the Cape Colony. [5]
It is an independent statutory body under South Africa's Special Investigating Units and Special Tribunals Act No. 74 of 1996. [3] It was established on 14 July 1997 by Presidential Proclamation R24 of 1997, signed by Nelson Mandela to enact that law. [4]
The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (formerly the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services and the Department of Communications) is one of the departments of the South African government.
The Times of South Africa was a daily printed newspaper that was delivered free to 137,054 (according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations statistics) Sunday Times subscribers five days a week. Tabloid in size, it was South Africa's first totally interactive newspaper, published in tandem with the TimesLIVE website. [ 1 ]
It is the only township in South Africa with its own vehicle registration number: NUZ. In 1974 the Chief Minister of KwaZulu, Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi, began discussing the idea of a dedicated tertiary educational institution specialising in technical subjects for black students, to meet the urgent and growing demand for expertise in these subjects.