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Dec 8, 2024 | 
currencynews.co.za | Stephen Timm
When crypto fugitive Johann Steynberg fled to Latin America in 2020, he abandoned his wife and 13-year-old daughter in Limpopo, months before his Ponzi scheme Mirror Trading International (MTI) collapsed. Steynberg, as it happened, also disappeared at the same time as 6,900 bitcoins, valued at R2bn.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
brainstorm.itweb.co.za | Stephen Timm
05 December 2024 Vuyo Angoma-Mzini, Launch Africa. Photography: Karolina Komendera Getting into the rest of Africa should be a massive opportunity for South African tech startups, particularly if they produce solutions that could benefit the continent’s rapidly urbanising population. Yet significant challenges mean many local founders would rather look elsewhere when expanding. The opportunity for some is clear.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
citizen.co.za | Stephen Timm
This is the third article in a special Moneyweb series on Mirror Trading International (MTI) CEO Johann Steynberg. When Steynberg was reported to have died of a pulmonary embolism in Brazil in April, after fleeing to São Paulo in December 2020, there were rumours that the head of one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency scams had faked his own death.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Stephen Timm
25 Most Colorful Places in The WorldFrom the sun-kissed houses of Procida, Italy, that seem to dance in a kaleidoscope of hues along the Mediterranean coast, to the old-world charm of …
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
currencynews.co.za | Stephen Timm
When Johann Steynberg, the enigmatic CEO of Mirror Trading International (MTI), boarded a Qatar Airways flight to São Paulo from Johannesburg on December 2 2020, it was as if he stepped off the face of the earth. Along with him disappeared 6,900 bitcoins – valued at R2bn at the time – leaving a wave of panic among thousands of investors. A year later, the South African fugitive was finally tracked down in Goiânia, a city of about 1.54-million people in Brazil’s interior and agricultural heartland.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
citizen.co.za | Stephen Timm
This is the second article in a special Moneyweb series on Mirror Trading International (MTI) CEO Johann Steynberg. When Steynberg was reported to have died of a pulmonary embolism in Brazil in April, after fleeing to São Paulo in December 2020, there were rumours that the head of one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency scams had faked his own death.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Stephen Timm
1 hour agoBrazil: President Xi’s speech at G20 Summit shows China's commitment to a just world of common developmentRio de Janeiro, Brazil - November 18, 2024 International observers have lauded Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at the 19th G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Monday, saying his address has put forward a Chinese solution to the challenges presented by the times and contributed wisdom and strength for countries to jointly build a just world for common development.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
citizen.co.za | Stephen Timm
This is the first article in a special Moneyweb series on Mirror Trading International (MTI) CEO Johann Steynberg. When Steynberg was reported to have died of a pulmonary embolism in Brazil in April, after fleeing to São Paulo in December 2020, there were rumours that the head of one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency scams had faked his own death.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
brainstorm.itweb.co.za | Stephen Timm
Investors show healthy appetite for VC Institutional investors are beginning to diversify into VC, says SA SME Fund. 01 November 2024 Saskia Nysschens, Anza Capital Since announcing in April that it had landed a R60 million investment from the Hlayisani Growth Fund, a Stellenbosch-based tech company that builds AI solutions for corporates has been able to sign three new clients, including its first major one in the US.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson |Stephen Timm |Nicola Field
The number of homes available for rent across the country has reached a new low according to the latest quarterly rental report published by PropTrack. The report, which analysed homes listed on realestate.com.au, revealed that the number of new rental listings in December was 4.6% below the figure recorded in 2022 and 20% lower than the decade average for December.
