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E-commerce Day
Feb 23, 2021

E-commerce Day aspires to build sustainable virtual businesses

South Africa’s e-commerce industry players set up E-commerce Day, an initiative to support and help grow the local online shopping sector.

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Visa
Feb 23, 2021

Visa seeks Sub-Saharan Africa’s ‘brilliant’ fintech firms

The global financial services company calls on Sub-Saharan Africa fintech start-ups to enter the regional leg of its Everywhere Initiative.

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Naspers
Feb 19, 2021

Naspers sets sights on ‘exciting’ edutech sector in Africa, Asia

The global Internet titan says it has a gripping business case, and potential for the sector is compounded by Africa and Asia placing a premium on education.

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HAVAIC
Feb 18, 2021

African tech start-ups set to reach new heights

The investment and growth prospects for African technology start-ups look promising, says venture capital firm HAVAÍC’s Ian Lessem.

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Capitec
Feb 18, 2021

Capitec-backed Imvelo Ventures invests in bancX expansion

The bancX start-up will use the funding to accelerate the expansion of its experiential cloud-based banking platform globally.

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Africa Beyond 4IR
Feb 17, 2021

Africa Beyond 4IR selects new board

The digital innovation hub appoints six board directors who will govern and provide oversight of the non-profit organisation’s ICT programmes.

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Mama Money
Feb 16, 2021

Mama Money prevails as growth surges in tough climate

The local fintech start-up saw growth in international money transfers surpass 500% in 2020, despite tough conditions brought on by COVID-19.

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HearX Group
Feb 15, 2021

HearX Group expands to US, Africa after funding deals

The digital hearing health solutions firm is on a mission to increase global access to hearing healthcare after receiving multimillion-rand funding.

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Govt’s Biz Portal racks ups 125K new company registrations

Government’s Biz Portal enables companies to be registered at just the “click of a button”, says president Cyril Ramaphosa.

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Small business minister pushes for more tech start-up support

Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni challenges the National Youth Development Agency to support at least 15 000 start-up businesses by 2024.

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Sabelo Mhlambi
Feb 10, 2021

Bhala app lets locals create online content in their own lingo

Computer scientist and researcher Sabelo Mhlambi has developed Bhala, a smart keyboard app that will eventually cater for all major African languages.

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Cape Town
Feb 5, 2021

Cape Town, Stockholm connect to support tech start-ups

The cities look to bring together companies, developers, customers, investors, entrepreneurs and institutions via a series of activities.