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Huawei Pay, a payments system for Huawei smartphone users, will be launched in South Africa later this week. In partnership…

South African tech startup LetMeIn.to has raised R2.2 million in funding from an impact investor to scale up and expand…

Herotel, South Africa’s junior fibre network operator, on Monday announced the milestone of reaching 100 000 subscribers with its fibre…

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) announced today that it had approved the amendment of the ICT COVID-19…

Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) has selected Vodacom as partner to provide in-car streaming services. The new streaming service will…

The outgoing boss of Etion, Teddy Daka, has been appointed as the non-executive chairman of the struggling JSE-listed company. The…

National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) students will now only receive their laptops next year owing to the delays in…

The Vodacom Foundation has announced the launch of a free application designed to aid in the fight against Gender Based…

Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom is activating 82 km of fibre in a cross-border network into Botswana. This implementation gives…

Forge Academy, powered by Nokia, has launched a fully inclusive artificial intelligence laboratory in Fourways at The Gantry. The academy…

Jason Quinn, the group finance director at Absa, has been named South Africa’s CFO of the Year at the 2020…

As South Africa joins the global community in commemorating 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children,…

The latest data released today by MTN shows the value of MTN MoMo (mobile money) transactions was $61,2 billion (R926…

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has published new research proposing how should FinTechs handle non-traditional (alternative) data on the…

Capitec, South Africa’s largest digital bank, has launched its QR code payment functionality in their new app. The ‘Scan to…

Vodacom – which generates less than 2 metric tons of carbon per terabyte of data a year – says it…

Safaricom’s mobile money service M-Pesa, Nigeria’s e-commerce sites Jumia and South Africa’s Takealot.com are picked as 100 tech challengers by…

MTN, Africa’s largest mobile phone group, has increased its shareholding in mobile-micro-insurance firm aYo through acquisition of additional shares. In…

The traditional lay-by system has long represented an enormous headache for merchants and retailers, marked by high administrative costs and…

PayU, the payments and FinTech business of Prosus, has invested a staggering $1 billion (R15.8 billion) on FinTech and mergers…

There is no doubt that Bob van Dijk, the CEO of Prosus, wants to make a big acquisition. The Dutch…

South Africa’s largest online retailer, Takealot.com, reported on Monday a 41% jump in revenue to $238 million (R3.7 billion) in the…

Retailer Pepkor, previously Steinhoff Africa Retail, said on Monday operating profit in its financial technology (FinTech) services business dropped by 5.8% to…

Starting out a music career seems like a great prospect as it gives you all the money, fame, and success…

South Africa’s financial regulators have published a draft declaration of crypto assets as a financial product under the Financial Advisory…