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Peach Payments rolls out Capitec Pay’s real-time payments

South African fintech company, Peach Payments, has partnered with Capitec Bank to launch Capitec Pay, a new open banking payment method that allows online…

Stitch adds Capitec Pay to its impressive API offering

South Africa-based payments company, Stitch, is expanding its payments infrastructure offering by integrating Capitec Pay into its API. This integration will allow Stitch clients…

Workpay secures $2.6m in pre-Series A funding round

Workpay, a Kenyan HR payroll start-up co-founded by chief executive Paul Kimani and COO Jackson Kungu, has secured Ksh 342 million (about $2.6 million)…

ExploreAI, ALX to train 25k data science students

South Africa-founded start-up ExploreAI Academy, Africa’s largest data science training institution, has partnered with ALX, a leading international technology training provider, to offer training…

Truzo launches digital escrow service for UK-SA trade

Truzo, the first African-focused FCA-approved digital escrow service, has launched in the United Kingdom, enabling safe and reliable transactions between this country and South…

Capitec Pay: Ozow leads way to new payments future

Capitec has partnered with Ozow, amongst other players, to launch a new payment solution that could potentially revolutionise the banking sector in South Africa….

Innov8 signs 5-year deal for U-Image wireless ultrasound

Innov8 Group Holdings, a private equity firm based in Cape Town, South Africa, has signed an exclusive five-year deal with Avacare Global, a healthcare…

Kenyan web 3 start-up gets nod for Draper VeChain accelerator

A Kenyan digital assets capacity building and management forum is among the first African start-ups to qualify for the Draper VeChain Web 3 accelerator,…

Equity-based crowdfunding: GoGetta kickstarts start-ups

Quality African businesses with growth prospects that seek funding can now raise capital via an innovative crowdfunding platform, GoGetta. South African and international angel…

60 entrepreneurs to benefit from SAB Foundation funding

The SAB Foundation has put out a call for growth-orientated entrepreneurs committed to achieving new levels of success to apply to its popular Tholoana…

Pervasive ‘bro culture’ in fintech a hurdle for women

The fintech industry is notorious for its “bro’ culture,” an environment characterised by sexism and demeaning habits such as mansplaining. This is according to…

[Opinion] Mobile-led risk approach key to financial inclusion

The world of mobile access has unlocked an ecosystem where mobile channels can sit alongside a predominantly cash economy. This is the view of…

Women in IT celebrates ‘the nerd, the girly girl and the future’

For many young women, a career in information technology, the sciences and engineering can be intimidating: all that maths, all that studying, all those…

From farmers to students, Zim fintech vows to include all

A Zimbabwean fintech start-up, Cashlinq, is set on empowering entrepreneurs across Africa through its “easily accessible” banking platform. Cashlinq, says founder Tendai Mugovi, is…

13 000 Egyptians to participate in mobile sports tournament

Football-loving Egyptians can now also look forward to Free Fire, the country’s first sports tournament happening entirely on mobile phones. More than 13 000 gamers…

AfricArena announces speaker A-list for North Africa summit

The chief executive of Open Start-up Tunisia, Dr Houda Ghozzi, and Breega founder Ben Marrel are among the A-list speakers confirmed for AfricArena’s upcoming…

3 start-ups can win big in AfricArena, Saint-Gobain challenge

Three African tech start-ups with procurement, logistics and circular economy solutions can each wine $10 000 worth of Amazon Web Services credit in AfricArena…

Business Partners to up-skill entrepreneurs in new contest

South Africa has been established as one of the continent’s “big four” start-up ecosystems, alongside Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria, according to the 2022 South…

First-year varsity students win CV Labs hackathon

CV Labs Africa has announced its partnership with the University of Johannesburg for an inaugural three-day innovation bootcamp and hackathon event. Competing teams will…

Online shopping: Click-and-collect demand grows

With Covid-19 almost a thing of the past, customers are increasingly choosing online shopping. Over the past two and a half years, Africa has…

Gender gap: Tech start-ups in SA still ruled by men

Did you know that less than 25% of tech jobs in South Africa are held by women? Technology start-ups are scrambling for women to…

Build a robust workplace culture amid Great Resignation

Skills development and company culture has become a competitive differentiator, particularly when it comes to attracting and retaining the right talent, and particularly now….

Register your start-up for AfricArena’s North Africa summit

So, you think you’ve got what it takes to rise, raise and scale? Time to put your money where your mouth is, then, and…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

Altron FinTech Index signals modest household recovery, but affordability gap persists

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

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