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By Elna Schütz• 27 May 2021 A mother working from home sits alongside her son, not pictured, attending school remotely in an arranged photograph taken in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Tens of thousands of students and teachers haven t been able to access K12 s My School Online platform this week. Miami-Dade public school revealed Wednesday that the district never signed a $15.3m no-bid contract with K12 Inc., the company at the center of the unprecedented crisis, according to a Miami Herald report. Photographer: Jayme Gershen/Bloomberg “In future, work is not going to be where you are but what you do,” says Professor Amanda Werner of the Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences at Nelson Mandela University. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, companies that were forced to switch to mostly working remotely are deciding how to adjust their longer-term policies, usually landing around the middle. ....
iAfrica 1 week ago 3 min read Share with your network! Despite the risk of a third wave of COVID infections, there are reasons for vaccine optimism as South Africa inches closer to a mass public vaccination programme which should be in full swing by July this year. Mass vaccination rollouts are expected to launch on May 17th. “We have lagged many countries in getting our people vaccinated. However, we are now accumulating vaccines and we are hopeful that through ongoing government and private sector collaboration, large-scale public vaccinations will start soon,” said RMB CEO James Formby. He noted that a third wave of infections was imminent in South Africa but that the magnitude of the wave was difficult to estimate. ....
Vaccine rollout will support SA tourism recovery in 2nd half of 2022 - RMB 13 May 2021 8:36 PM Share This: The Money Show s Bruce Whitfield interviews Jessica Spira, Sector Head for Healthcare and Hospitality at Rand Merchant Bank. What is the outlook for South Africa s devastated tourism industry as we face our third wave of Covid-19? The CEO of Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) firmly believes there s reason for optimism if operators just hang in there. The countryâs vaccine rollout will support a recovery in the tourism sector in the second half of 2022, says James Forby. We have lagged many countries in getting our people vaccinated. However, we are now accumulating vaccines and we are hopeful that through ongoing government and private-sector collaboration, large-scale public vaccinations will start soon.â ....
Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has disclosed that it acted as Joint Lead Manager and Joint Bookrunner (JLM), alongside other transaction parties, in Ghana’s four-tranche Eurobond. According to a statement, RMB also acted as Dealer Manager on Ghana’s Tender Offer on its 2023 maturity Eurobonds. “RMB is proud to have assisted Ghana to issue a new money Zero Coupon Senior Unsecured Eurobond, the first of its kind by an Emerging Market (EM) sovereign,” it added. Ghana’s Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, who was sworn in on March, 30, 2021, had in the past made a case for the creation of an, “inclusive global forum to rebuild the international financial and economic architecture and a new ability to respond equitably and rapidly to such a catastrophe.” ....
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