Author: Staff Reporter

South African start-up Jini Guru has launched a smartphone app and QR card to allow users to make micropayments electronically, to a car guard for example, without the need to carry cash.

Uber rival Taxify said on Tuesday that it has expanded its South African operations to include the coastal towns of Plettenberg Bay, George, Knysna and Mossel Bay.

Financial services chatbot developer FinChatBot has secured R7-million in funding from South Africa’s Kalon Venture Partners and Mauritius-based Compass Venture Capital.

South Africa now has more than 1.2 million registered .za domains. Across the co.za, web.za, net.za and org.za domains, the number is on track to exceed 1.5 million, the ZA Central Registry said on Monday.

The ANC wanted to launch a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, ahead of the 2019 general election, but the project has been thrown into disarray because of internecine fighting between those involved.

Chinese technology giant Huawei has revealed its plans to create a cloud region in South Africa. It will launch the offering commercially before the end of the year.

South Africa’s MTN Group and France’s Orange announced this week that they will bring “smart feature phones” to Africa costing as little as US$20. The phones will run an operating system called KaiOS – but what is that?

Two years after pulling the plug on its Mobile Money service in South Africa, MTN Group plans to relaunch the service in South Africa, according to sources close to the matter.

MTN Group plans to buy music streaming provider Simfy, according to a report.

Cell C said on Tuesday that it has completed the implementation of its roaming agreement with MTN South Africa.