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Bassirou Diomaye Faye. (Source: Bassirou Diomaye Faye/X) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.

The youth of Senegal refused to be docile, rose and carried one of their own to the Palais de la Republique seat of power in Dakar, thus claiming their own future. Will South Africa's youth rise to the occasion and chuck out the establishment dinosaurs from the Union Buildings in May?

Asset News Hub The WeBuyCars warehouse in Northgate. (WeBuyCars/Supplied) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.

WeBuyCars was listed on the JSE on Thursday, with its shares gaining in the first hours of trading.

When investors in MTN Nigeria meet in Lagos for the company's extraordinary general meeting late in April, they will hear from the management team how it plans to tackle a technically insolvent balance sheet and restore company to profitability.

Shares in industrial services group Barloworld surged on Monday after it warned investors it was involved in negotiations that may affect the price of its shares.

After paying R468 million in finance costs over 19 years for a R160 million loan to buy a fifth of AVI's fishing division, which helped secure I&J commercial fishing rights for 15 years, Mkhuseli Jack's Main Street 198 was paid "a negligible" R23 419 for its stake on exercise a call option by AVI, which had been the seller and the funder.

The Ports Regulator of SA, responsible for the regulation of the country's eight commercial ports, is operating with a CEO who was found unfit to perform her duties.

BHP Billiton has made it clear it does not want South African mining in its portfolio - a message it first sternly dished out with the unbundling of South32 in 2015.

MTN Nigeria has received an accommodating breather from its funders and suppliers, helping it avoid an imminent rights issue while trading itself back to solvency.