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MultiChoice is delighted to announce that it has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious Ubuntu Award in the Economic Diplomacy in Africa category.

This esteemed recognition, bestowed by South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) celebrates individuals and organisations who exemplify South Africa's positive global image through outstanding contributions in their respective fields.

The Ubuntu Awards, hosted annually, serve as a platform to honour those who uphold the values of unity, integrity, and excellence on an international scale. MultiChoice's commitment to economic diplomacy and its positive impact on the African continent have earned it this distinguished accolade.

The award ceremony took place in Cape Town on 10 February 2024, where MultiChoice was represented by MultiChoice Group CEO, Calvo Mawela. Dr. Naledi Pandor, the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, presented the award, underscoring the significance of MultiChoice's achievements in fostering positive relations within Africa and beyond.

Upon accepting the award, Mr. Mawela stated that he was “deeply honoured to accept the Ubuntu Award in the Economic Diplomacy in Africa category on behalf of MultiChoice. This recognition is a testament to our commitment to projecting a positive image of South Africa internationally through our endeavours in the African continent.”

MultiChoice joins an illustrious group of past winners, further solidifying its position as a trailblazer in economic diplomacy and a beacon of excellence in the African business landscape.

MultiChoice extends its gratitude to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation for this esteemed recognition and looks forward to the opportunity to showcase its commitment to advancing Africa's economic interests on the global stage.

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bukatyne:
Somalians or Chinese?

The credible source says its Chinese.

Belial06:
So basically all companies by law are forced to give beggars a share? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Companies you didn't create manage or empower must give a share to beggars not whites but the blacks.

It sounds like begging to me 🤣🤣🤣

Which countries don't have indigenous businesses? Even Chad and Togo have big indigenous businesses not owned by the French.

My point was that even Shoprite has black ownership.

If you knew the unique history of SA and the structure of the economy you'd understand why BEE is necessary. Even Nigeria has such laws in some form. So the joke's on you💩💩💩💩

ekelebeXstunner:
Yet none are owned by blacks. Tufia! Slaves in their own country. No wonder they’re always angry at non-SA blacks. Plantation mentality.

Not a single Nigerian business is able to outcompete SA businesses in Nigeria itself, your own country! All you do is wail about SA pricing all day. You can insert adjectives here (...) to describe your own underdeveloped and corrupt mentality.

Name one considerable Nigerian or African company in SA that would make SA "always angry at non-SA blacks".

Free lesson, all companies registered in SA are required by law to have a share of black ownership - it's called Black Economic Empowerment.

CoronaVirusPro:
Oh!

So you a fan!

I'm just saying i dont see you surviving frontpage😂

LeeSmart:
See as that Mzanzi op just the look una @coronavirus nd ogiame they laugh. Una dey loose guard oo

I'm in peace mode today, BobbieZion is not gonna trigger me 😎 It's clear CoronaVirusPro is gonna get banned, filthy mouth indeed 😂. Rooting for Ogiame!🏆

CoronaVirusPro:
China will clone anything!

What is “sharprite”

😂😂😂

It's actually a smart use of SA slang. Sharp means thumbs-up.

'SHARP' MEANS 'THUMBS UP' IN SOUTH AFRICA

Social media is abuzz after some people found it weird that just opposite the popular retailer Shoprite on Robert Sobukwe street in Sunnyside, Pretoria, there is a store named Sharprite.

While some see it as “pushing your luck” due to the familiarity, some think the competition between Shoprite and Sharprite is welcomed.

TimesLIVE visited both supermarkets on Wednesday.

As one stands outside the door of Sharprite and looks on the “sharp right” turn, opposite the street you find Shoprite.

Inside Sharprite, the store boasts about eight aisles stocked with everything from sugar, bedding essentials to water taps. But what sets the store apart from Shoprite is that many of their products are offered in bulk.

Sharprite also has no fridges in store so there are no refrigerated items in stock.

During TimesLIVE’s visit to the store, a man who wanted to buy a cold drink turned back empty-handed after inquiring about the fridge aisle for the drinks and he was told there are no fridges there.

Besides sounding similar, there are other similarities between the two shops. Both have their names written in bold red, Shoprite has a white outline to its text. Sharprite also has a big yellow smiling emoji in front, displaying a ‘sharp’ or thumbs-up gesture.

A bottle of 2l cooking oil at Sharprite starts from as little as R43.99 [vs R59.99 Ritebrand Sunflower Seed Oil 2L at Shoprite], while a carton of six milk 1lt boxes starts from as little as R89.99 [Ritebrand R98.99]. A 10kg bag of flour costs R127.99 at Sharprite, while similar flour of the same size costs a few cents more at Shoprite at R129.99.

While in the area, TimesLIVE noticed that a lot of the foot traffic is at the Shoprite as people buy daily essentials, including cold drinks and water. A few people also entered Sharprite to buy tools and other essentials.

While Shoprite, which is one of Africa’s leading brands is owned by South African, Christo Wiese, TimesLIVE understands that Sharprite is Chinese-owned.
The store has extended its reach from Pretoria and is also found in Middelburg, Mpumalanga province.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-02-14-its-just-a-sharp-right-turn-from-sharprite-to-shoprite/

BobbieZion:
South Africa 58.
Na Dem want try us.

Who was having heart attacks? It certainly wasn't SA🇳🇬👎🏾

God1000:
well, I'm not surprised by your comment because you are a south African, you guys are filled with so much hatred for Nigerians but your opinion is inconsequential and insignificant to us.

The lady has spoken the Truth, so don't kill yourself because of what she said.

Who are the White worshippers here? Some of us think highly of ourselves, I've been actively criticizing the massacre of innocent women and children everyday in Gaza conflict by Israel

So much for inconsequential and insignificant, you're the one who mentioned South Africans (unprovoked). We're not the ones who were having heart attacks at the scare of been beaten by SA at Afcon - no heart attacks against CIV 🇳🇬👎🏾

Lawag3:
In Germany and Canada the unemployment rate is low their work force is relatively old so we get that they need immigrants. Yours is the opposite

Does South Africa not have many high skilled workers. Or are sans not interested in high skilled jobs.

If you had read the article probably you would've noticed the president said there's a mismatch between what tertiary institutions are offering and what the advancing world of work requires, and that this is being addressed but in the meantime there's a need to fill the gap with the necessary skilled foreigners.

And last time I checked Nigeria's unemployment rate is as high as SA's - don't be fooled by Tinubu claiming it dropped from 30%+ to 8% in just 6 months. Whatever intentions to cast South Africans as dumb apply to you too.

God1000:
If not for our bad leaders, Nigeria should've been the greatest black nation on earth by now.


Other Africans still admire us despite our many challenges.

You see south Africans and Ghanians trolling us everyday on social media because they feel intimidated by us.

Did you create Nairaland so you guys can lie to yourselves each and everyday? Why would SA or Southern Africa want to be colonised or be intimated by a bunch of white worshippers who will sell out the continent to Israel and the US at the first opportunity like they sold their ancestors into slavery🇳🇬?

The signs are already there Nigerians themselves long to be colonised because 60 years of independence has brought them nothing but severe underdevelopment - thats why every second word they utter licks white bums. That Kenyan lady, if she even exists, should speak for herself.

Lawag3:
Do not insult, be mature in this conversation.

From your national stats you've guys have a large number of unemployment or unemployed youths. Why not give this jobs to them.

Although I think I have an answer to that question because a South African told me that your government prefers competence and qualification to familiarity of you get what I mean.

So if that's the case are there no qualified and competent South African.

Because the some SANS believe that the lack of job is caused by foreigners who are taking these jobs.

I already explained this with example of Germany and Canada. We're talking about high skills jobs here - as you know SA's economy is the most advanced & globally connected in Africa. Even the US's tech industry is dominated by the smartests brains from around the world.

The SA president is not calling for people who gonna sell jollof on the streets, and i don't see anywhere he begged Nigerians or low skilled people to come over.

When you have very little to boast about as a country you then begin to make up stories that afcon had 2 billion views bcoz your country made it to the finals.

I listened to the BBC analysis of the views and its because of the unpredictable nature of the tournament from day 1, and the fairytale stories. Even from the beginning of the tournament Asian audiences were complaining that the BBC favoured afcon over the Asian Cup.

Every other unsubstantiated claim is a figment of people's hungry imagine, since they cant eat aftobeats - the only thing they can boast of.

CandidAdmin:
MzansiCoolio
You have to stop insulting everyone if you want them to change the view they have about you guys.

Back to the topic, why do I need to work from home in SA? Why can't I just work from my country?
Or I'm I missing something?
Is my understanding wrong?

I'm not sure about that. Right now i have more pressing issues - to destroy Generator Republic trolls

Ekeneegwu:
For real this bloodletting fool really thinks he is up to the task … hey black hating midget ask your bald self why SA ladies can’t get enough of we Nigerians … cursed generation of depressed fools get a life and keep Nigerian names of your impotent lips

Google says 1MW of electricity (150th grid collapse) divided between 250 million people equals 4.E-9. Only Nepa and Generator Republicans understand this sort of mathematics 🇳🇬💩💩💩💩

Fira09:
A gay superior to a straight being? Fr? Lmao😂😂 There's is nothing I won't here from HIV carriers and distributors.

Bye for today.

Straight guy with 1MW of electricity?🇳🇬 You're inferior dude. Here's the emoji that best describes you 💩💩💩💩💩

Fira09:
I thought you even have points, only repeating the same shit all over.

Sincerely I can't be going back and forth with a weakling of a gay, a worthless gay that can't stand me physically.

Go have a heart attack - it's your thing as Generator Republicans 🇳🇬💩 when faced with far superior South Africans 🇿🇦🏆

Fira09:
You are such an uncircumcised daft dumbo, you don't even understand my point, you are the one claiming the HIV country, South Africa has a stable electricity whilst you and I know you and your entire lineage leaves in darkness for infinity days.

But you keep repeating this false shit, it may seem the HIV symptoms have affected the thinking part of your decayed brain.💩🇿🇦💩🇿🇦💩

Do u even produce the generators that are the quintessential soundtrack to Japageria?🇳🇬👎🏾☹️☹️☹️ Last time i heard you guys can't even produce a pencil or toothpick - that's why electricity production is rocket science to you 😢😢😢

Rahkman:
shut the Bleep you hiv infected xenophobian, did you hear about usa canada or the uk which have sizeable nigerian population begin to attack the nigerians living there and destroying their buisness? Stupid slowpoke

I'm surprised you have a charged phone since you have 1MW of electricity to share among 250 million people. Grid collapsed for the 150th time in 11 years. Maybe if you didn't sell drugs and scam people in SA you wouldn't be attacked. What serious Nigerian business can you point in SA? Name one 😂😂😂😂😂

Fira09:
Lmao, who cares? Your HIV fellows always complain about electricity being absent for days.

Imagine having 40,000MW of electricity and still don't have light for days, so so pathetic💩🇿🇦💩

Generator Republic has had years - even decades - without electricity 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩💩. Somalia says it's willing to donate 2MW to you guys. Nepa says it's eternally grateful 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Last time I checked Germany & Canada took in millions of migrants to plug their skills shortage but Japagerian Generator Republicans never called them lazy and insecure. White worshipping is so sad and pathetic 🇳🇬👎🏾💩💩💩💩

Fira09:
Quit the deceit lad, you have 40,000MW of electricity but still don't have electricity for days? Make it make sense? Your fellow HIV victims always complain about 'days without electricity' with sadness in their hearts under every Eskom tweet.

Since blacks started ruling SA💩🇿🇦, your HIV country has gone from 50 to –0.002, bunch of unemployed weird retards.

Google says 1MW of electricity divided between 250 million people equals 4.E-9. Only Nepa and Generator Republicans understand this sort of mathematics 🇳🇬💩💩💩💩

franchasofficia:
Africans should not apply for this yeye visa, let the lazy xenophobic Zulus work and develop their country on their own, they are lucky the white people there made things easy for them, they should stop disturbing the rest of Africans.

If they want more white people to further develop their country, they can head to Netherlands and apply for more Dutchmen to come to their country and live

White worshipping Generator Republican 🇳🇬💩 get mouth. How's Nepa getting along sharing 1MW of electricity between 250 million people? ☹️☹️☹️ With all that oil sha but electricity production is rocket science 😢😢😢

Fira09:
Same old stale lines.

Load shedding will be over by 2025 in SA🇿🇦💩 yen yen yen... But you and your family are still living in darkness with no electricity in 2024, lmao

Your country is just around 70 million but 33% of the population is unemployed, I'm 100% certain you are among the 33% with symptoms of HIV all over your gay body.

We have 40,000MW of electricity, while you have just 1MW. I have 20 hours of power everyday while you only get 20 hours of power in 1 year from Nepa 🇳🇬👎🏾😂😂😂

How completely f-d up does a cow-ntry 🐄🐮 have to be that despite privatization it still only has 1MW of electricity for 250 million people? Generator Republic for real until the year 3000😂😂😂😂

Fira09:
At least we eliminated your HIV country, same Nwabali owned your AIDS country and bundled them out from the AFCON semifinals.

Look at your fellow HIV carriers from South Africa wailing and grunting like a lost pig under your president's comment section because of the high rate of unemployment, messed up waters, and zero electricity which you try to swindle some Nigerians about.

Loadshedding will be over by 2025 in SA🇿🇦🏆. I don't know about Japageria🇳🇬💩 since last week you only had 1MW to share among 250 million people as the grid collapsed for the 150th time in 11 years despite privatization ☹️☹️☹️😢😢😢💩💩💩💩💩. SA has 40,000MW🇿🇦🏆

Please ask Niger and Somalia nicely to share 3MW of electricity with you 😂😂😂😂

Fira09:
Wailing? That's an obvious FACT.

HIV/AIDS carriers and lies are 1 & 2.🇿🇦💩 The best player of the tournament was a Nigerian and that's the only thing people will remember.

We'll also remember the heart attacks Mamelodi Sundowns FC inflicted on Generator Republic 🇳🇬👎🏾💩

Has Nwabali been signed yet in Europe or he's gonna risk returning to Mzansi?😕😕😕 Tell him Ronwen Williams says 'hi'.🇿🇦🏆

perfectsusanoo:
As per mzansi jorginho? All those mzansi players are uncreative and unprogressive. Their deadliest playa (tau) no even good enough to sit down 4 brighton bench.

You just dissed yourself having heart attacks over an "uncreative and unprogressive" side 🇳🇬💩

Fira09:
Chippa United second division? Mzansi's and deceits.

We will keep calling our European-based players to continue eliminating those HIV/AIDS carriers and distributors from anything related to football .

Keep wailing!🇳🇬💩 We missed you Generator Republicans at the awards ceremony 😢