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Telkom today announced the launch of a digital wallet officially dubbed Telkom Pay Digital Wallet or Telkom Pay. The company said Telkom Pay allows users to pay others and get paid themselves using their mobile phone through the WhatsApp messaging app to anyone on their contacts list. It also serves as a cashless Point of Sale (POS) payment option for businesses. “We are launching financial services solutions that cater to everyone and that are easy to access through one’s phone 24/7 at an affordable price for consumers and businesses. Our device insurance has been in the market for a number…
2020 marks the end of the UN Decade for Road Safety. South Africa joined other nations a decade ago as a part of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety to reduce road fatalities and injuries by 50% by 2020 due to the fact that it is a major public health threat across the globe, claiming 1.3 million lives every year and injuring about 20 to 50 million people more. Unfortunately, little progress has been made and South Africa’s road death statistics are unacceptably high. The number or road deaths peak during the Festive Season. Earlier this year…
Digital payments FinTech Ozow says it processed in excess of R1 billion in transactions in a month, for the first time in November 2020. This is thanks to a Black Friday surge where the single biggest transaction was more than R500,000 on a popular ecommerce site. After being founded in 2014, it took the company two years and nine months to process its first R1 billion. Since then, the growth has been exponential, says Ozow’s CEO and co-founder, Thomas Pays. “It’s astounding to see how popular instant payment solutions have become. A growing number of South Africans are using instant…
LocumBase, the independent online platform that brings medical practices and locum practitioners together through a simplified locum booking process, has secured funding from E ² Investments and Jozi Angels. Zulé Vuuren, LocumBase founder and Chief Energy Officer, says that as a market-first the platform is in a constant state of evolution as it aims to meet the needs of South Africa’s medical fraternity. “A product and service like LocumBase has not been done before on the African continent. There was a lot of learning to do before our product could address the needs of the market, which is why we…
The University of Pretoria (UP) officially opened its state-of-the-art Engineering 4.0 facility, which focuses on research on smart transport, cities and infrastructure. Situated on the Innovation Africa at UP campus in Hillcrest, Engineering 4.0 is a first for Africa. It is a collaboration with the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL), the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation and York Timbers. “Through its focus on the development of integrated transportation and infrastructure systems, Engineering 4.0’s research is concentrating on the reduction of energy consumption levels in transportation, maximising productivity in industry…
Huawei Pay, a payments system for Huawei smartphone users, will be launched in South Africa later this week. In partnership with local payments company Zapper, Huawei Pay be launched in South Africa on 3 December. “We are proud to launch Huawei Pay in South Africa in partnership with Zapper,” Likun Zhao, Vice President at Huawei Consumer Business Group for Southern Africa, says. “With Huawei Pay, you add your bank cards to the app and then pay in stores simply by scanning the Zapper QR Payment Code on the bill when you check out. “All local debit and credit…
What’s the one thing that people carry with them all the time? If you said a phone, you’d be correct. Whether it’s checking a shopping list in a supermarket, passing the time while waiting for takeaways or walking from the kitchen to the lounge in our own homes, there are few occasions when your smartphone is not with you. Understanding consumer behaviour like smartphone habits is vital for the survival of any industry. Aviation is no different and has evolved with its customers’ needs with a mobile-first approach – something that is proving to be vital in a world fundamentally…
South African tech startup LetMeIn.to has raised R2.2 million in funding from an impact investor to scale up and expand their visitor and access management platform. The seed fund provides capital and support to value-aligned entrepreneurs that build and scale responsible businesses with a positive impact on society. In March 2020, the team at LetMeIn.to launched CoronaFighter, a chatbot and web-enabled app that assists large organisations to screen and track symptoms of COVID-19 in the workforce through a simple self-monitoring process. Created and developed by Doctors Jarrad Van Zuydam and Rick Diesel, Paul Van Zyl of Sigma Digital and Daniel…
The second annual CHRO Awards celebrated the best and brightest of SA’s HR leaders and the overall winner was Discovery’s Tswelo Kodisang. Kodisang, Discovery chief people officer, has been named South Africa’s CHRO of the Year at the second annual CHRO Awards. This was announced on Thursday 26 November 2020 at the end of a gala event for HR executives, held at Inanda Club in Johannesburg Kodisang scooped three of the eight accolades awarded on the night, also winning the Strategy & Leadership Award, and the HR & Technology Award. Another big winner at the prestigious event, the largest gathering…
National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) students will now only receive their laptops next year owing to the delays in the tendering process. Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, profusely apologised to those who have been affected by the hold-up following the re-advertisement of the tender to supply and deliver laptops in September. The portable personal computers are aimed for the NSFAS students registered at universities and the Technical, and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges for the 2020 academic year. Speaking during a media briefing on Thursday, Nzimande, said by the closing date of the tender…