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UberEats offers easy access to traditional African food our mothers used to make back in the day
AFRICAN FOOD

Ordering in: A taste of home delivered to your doorstep

UberEats offers easy access to traditional African food our mothers used to make back in the day

  • Stella Mapenzauswa
4 min read
The Competition Commission’s online intermediation platforms market inquiry has unravelled a web of “uncompetitive online business practices” of firms like Google. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
AUTORADERS

Google, Takealot, Uber Eats must change their ‘uncompetitive practices’

Competition Commission instructs local and global online businesses to change their marketing tactics to level the playing field for small and black-owned companies

  • Lyse Comins
10 min read
A moveable feast: Being able to track delicious restaurant-quality food to one’s doorstep is a pandemic positive. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
COLUMN

Oh joy, my lockdown food is on its way

The pandemic dates us all and has changed us all. Our Netflix and Uber Eats profiles are proof

  • Charmain Naidoo
6 min read
The GDP decline in the first quarter caused a 30.1% decline in the unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2020, which is expected to worsen. (Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images)
CHINA

E-commerce will assist economy

Allowing companies to sell products online will help them to stay afloat during the lockdown

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
5 min read
Informal traders, such as hawkers, street vendors and spaza shops are an important link in the chain that connects food producers to consumers. Photo: Supplied (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
COGTA

Rules for lockdown: Stay put!

The lockdown regulations provide for strong curtailment of people’s movements, but many details of their implementation are still to come

  • Franny Rabkin
5 min read
Only half of digital labour platforms could give evidence that workers were paid at or above the minimum wage, a new report shows
COUNTRY

Prosus in a tug of war for Just Eat

The South African company is aiming to build a food-delivery empire and already has investments in Brazil, India and Germany

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
7 min read