South Africa’s next mobile growth story will come from connecting machines, not people, writes Pambos Soteriades.
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Brazil is freezing illegal operators’ funds and making banks liable. South Africa should be watching closely.
Exchange control rests on a 1960s view of money. It now restricts freedom, not capital flight, writes VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani.
The Fable 5 shutdown is a warning: AI platforms have become instruments of state power, not neutral utilities.
South Africa’s banks have a structural advantage telecoms operators cannot cross. They may not have long to use it.
A second high court judgment has found that bitcoin is capital, deepening the split over crypto and exchange control.
South Africa’s banks have built thriving mobile businesses on phone numbers and network identities they don’t control.
Enforced rigorously, age verification to protect children from harms online could push us towards a less free internet.
South Africa’s national treasury is not regulating crypto into submission. It is regulating itself into irrelevance.
Teachers are improvising and learners are exposed unevenly – South Africa urgently needs a national AI policy for schools.