| Notes | 2025 R'000 |
2024 R'000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.2 | 13 730 344 | 14 175 588 | ||
| Finance revenue | 1.2 | 319 833 | 422 856 | ||
| Total revenue | 1.2 | 14 050 177 | 14 598 444 | ||
| Other income | 76 675 | 93 089 | |||
| Direct operating costs* | (10 675 174) | (11 303 406) | |||
| Employee compensation and benefit expense | 5.2 | (1 052 704) | (961 883) | ||
| Depreciation and amortisation | (192 774) | (163 879) | |||
| Fair value movements | 1.3 | 174 316 | 7 213 | ||
| Bad debts and expected credit loss | 1.3 | (235 524) | (507 782) | ||
| Modification/derecognition of financial instruments | 1.3 | (52 872) | (32 576) | ||
| Other expenses | (680 804) | (667 624) | |||
| Operating profit | 1.3 | 1 411 316 | 1 061 596 | ||
| Finance costs | 1.4 | (1 090 314) | (1 121 356) | ||
| Finance income | 1.4 | 803 857 | 901 884 | ||
| Reversal of impairment of investment in associate | 2.1.1 | 1 555 042 | — | ||
| Share of (losses)/profits from associates and joint ventures | 2.1.1 | (55 376) | 15 416 | ||
| Profit before taxation | 2 624 525 | 857 540 | |||
| Taxation | 7.1 | (143 805) | (197 955) | ||
| Profit for the year | 2 480 720 | 659 585 | |||
| Profit for the year attributable to: | |||||
| Equity holders of the parent | 2 484 243 | 647 386 | |||
| Non-controlling interest | (3 523) | 12 199 | |||
| Earnings per share for profit attributable to: | |||||
| Equity holders (cents) | |||||
| - Basic | 1.5 | 276.52 | 72.49 | ||
| - Diluted | 1.5 | 275.24 | 72.03 |
| * | Direct operating costs are the operating expenses directly attributable to the production of goods and services sold by the Group. These include, but are not limited to, the costs associated with the acquisition of airtime and handsets sold by the Group. |
BLU Label Unlimited Integrated Annual Report 2025
