🇿🇦 Johannesburg Stock Exchange

In a move that will position South Africa's Capital Markets amongst the most sophisticated in global Capital Markets, the JSE, together with National Treasury (NT) and a multi-stakeholder group consisting of Strate, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) and the banking institutions servicing primary dealers, officially launched the electronic trading platform (ETP) for government bonds at the JSE today.

Vodacom Group (JSE:VOD) announced that it has created Africa’s first standards-based, commercial 5G service in Lesotho using 3.5GHz spectrum to initially deliver Fixed-Wireless Access broadband services to two enterprise customers in Lesotho.

Investment company Long4Life (JSE:L4L) announced its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Rage Distribution Proprietary Limited (Rage) for R3.915 million.

Old Mutual Limited (JSE:OMU), the investment, savings, insurance, and banking group, yesterday bought back its primary listing to the JSE's Main Board.   This milestone ends the group's almost two decades, as a London-based, FTSE100 financial services group.