Flash Briefing: Thousands of new CT jobs at Amazon HQ; Absa CEO Mminele sudden departure; SA cryptocurrency ETF?

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* Amazon has announced that will establish its South African headquarters in the City of Cape Town, a project that has the potential to create up 19 000 jobs.
* ABSA CEO Daniel Mminele has been axed, with Absa Group Chairman, Wendy Lucas-Bull saying that a separation deal had been reached with Mminele - a former Reserve Bank deputy governor and Absa’s first CEO.
* South Africa may soon have a Johannesburg-listed cryptocurrency ETF.
* Already lagging behind the rest of the world in its Covid-19 inoculations, the wave of vaccine skepticism -- made worse by a lack of trust in local governments and misinformation on social media -- threatens to set Africa back even further, reports Bloomberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 Apr 2021 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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