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WATCH: TikTok’s ‘Paper Chef’ creates stunning culinary art with paper

TikTok creators showcase their creativity using paper and wool to create lifelike food.

Lifestyle Food
Nomathamsanqa Sithathu|Published

Nampak progresses turnaround despite African currency headwinds

Nampak, Africa’s largest packaging group that is being restructured due to financial difficulties, needs to sell three key assets as its operations are not yet sufficient to put the group back on a sustainable growth trajectory, CEO Phildon Roux said yesterday.

Business Report Companies
Edward West|Published

Nampak earnings hurt by R1 billion of foreign exchange losses in Nigeria

Nampak has become the latest South African company to be afflicted by a currency crisis in the lucrative but volatile West African market of Nigeria.

Business Report Companies
Tawanda Karombo|Published

Mondi share price drops after it predicts challenging markets will persist

Mondi, the England-based global packaging and paper producer, saw its share price slide 6. 6% on the JSE yesterday afternoon after it said challenging market conditions persisted in the three months to September 30, and selling prices had fallen.

Business Report Companies
Edward West|Published

Mondi to distribute to shareholders proceeds from its Russian disposal

Mondi, the multinational packaging and paper group, has reached an agreement to sell Mondi Syktyvkar, its last remaining facility in Russia, for about R15. 8 billion.

Business Report Companies
Edward West|Published

Man orders 100 grinding discs off Takealot, receives them in 100 individual boxes

TikTok user @chris_guardian is one of many South Africans who can’t wrap their heads around wasteful e-commerce packaging regimes.

News
Dominic Naidoo|Published

Covid-19 toilet paper shortages and unemployment result in toilet paper empire

Shane Malatji refused to allow unemployment to define him and started off by selling out of a trolley on the streets of Alexandra.

Business Report Entrepreneurs
Vusi Adonis|Published

How this man turned Covid-19 toilet paper shortages, unemployment into a business

Shane Malatji refused to allow unemployment to define him and started off by selling out of a trolley on the streets of Alexandra.

Business Report Entrepreneurs
Vusi Adonis|Published