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South African business confidence ticked higher in June, but remains below levels from a year ago after weak economic data and power blackouts in the first half of 2019.

VALR.com will offer ether-rand trading from next week as the cryptocurrency exchange, backed by former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan, ramps up its efforts to tackle Naspers-backed market leader Luno.

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The GSMA Association, which represents most of the world’s mobile operators, has opened a permanent office in Nairobi in Kenya. The office, housed at the city’s iHub, will allow the association to work more closely with its members throughout the continent. The move shows a

Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) will issue 13m MasterCard-branded and payment-enabled national ID smart cards as part of a pilot programme. This programme is the largest ever roll-out of a formal electronic payment solution in Nigeria. In the first phase

A new Kickstarter project from a team of Kenyans wanting to build a piece of communications hardware called BRCK has attracted more than 160 backers in its first two days, with funders contributing more than US$22 000 towards a goal of $125 000. BRCK is the brainchild

While the number of fixed lines in service in South Africa continues to fall, the opposite is happening in Kenya, where Telkom Kenya has grown the number of fixed lines in service from 248 300 to 251 567, or by 1,3%, year on year