With respect to the sales included in our Supermarkets RSA segment from our on-demand ecommerce platform, Sixty60’s sales increased by 47.7%, equating to R18.9 billion this year. Success measures outside of its growth and sales quantum include its incredible brand advocacy underscored by the Sixty60 customer experience, evidenced by its 94.0% on-time deliveries and 96.8% order fulfilment.
You will see in this result, referring to our discontinued operations specifically, that we continued to reduce our exposure to markets where our operations were sub-scale and our capital was better allocated to regions and operations where our expertise generates higher growth and superior returns….
Foreign Correspondents: Many international news agencies have correspondents
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Fun South African Fact: Vilakazi Street in Soweto has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners. A tour through Soweto will always stop at Vilakazi Street to reveal a number of heritage sites of great importance to democratic South Africa. Both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived here at some point in their lives. In 1984, Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for his non-violent fight against the apartheid regime. Nine years later in 1993, Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with then-president F.W. de Klerk as an award for their role in bringing about the peaceful end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela then went on to become South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994.