🇿🇦 Johannesburg Stock Exchange

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is pleased to announce the expansion of its secondary listings framework, now offering secondary listings from the Singapore Exchange (SGX). This allows companies with a primary listing on the SGX to seek a secondary listing on the JSE, additionally qualifying for the fast track listing route. 

IHS Holding Limited (“IHS Towers”), one of the largest independent owners, operators, and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world by tower count has signed agreements to acquire 5,709 telecommunication towers in South Africa from Mobile Telephone Networks Proprietary Limited (“MTN”), one of the leading mobile telecommunications operators in South Africa (the “Transaction”). IHS Towers will also provide Power-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) to MTN at approximately 12,800 sites across South Africa (including the acquired 5,709 sites).

IFC today welcomed Absa Bank Ltd. to its Global Trade Liquidity Program (GTLP) to boost access to trade finance in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in low income and fragile countries, supporting a vital driver of growth that has been strained by the COVID-19 pandemic.

HEINEKEN N.V. (EURONEXT: HEIA; OTCQX: HEINY) today announced that it has entered into an implementation agreement with Distell Group Holdings Limited (JSE:DGH), Namibia Breweries Limited (NSX:NBS) and Ohlthaver & List Group of Companies (‘O&L’) to integrate their respective and relevant businesses in Southern Africa into one enlarged company.