Posts by Alastair Tempest

As part of the Safe. Shop Trustmark service, EFSA supports Scamadviser. EFSA members can register on this service to ensure that they are not identified as spammers. This is extremely important…

Overall gross losses in 2019 on card transactions in SA stood at R428.6m, a 2% decrease compared to 2018. The counterfeiting of cards decreased by 44.8% for credit cards and 34.8% for debit cards. Digital…

The South African Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) published a report on taxing the digital economy in SA which concentrates on taxing digital services from aboard. Despite its claim to provide “independent, objective and…

The AU launched at very short notice a series of fascinating online panels and sessions over the week of 6-9 July and proclaimed African Integration Day on 7 July. The…

This month the UK’s Guardian International Edition carried a report on the challenges faced by African entrepreneurs trying to raise investment in the USA and Europe. North American HQ-ed investors…

SA Innovation Summit goes virtual: Apply for the Africa Cup and the Inventors Garage at the 2020 SAIS!Africa’s largest tech startup event will be going online in 2020. Early Bird…

The AfDB-funded Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation initiative (TAAT) is directing proven technologies across the African landscape. With tens of millions of smallholder farmers potentially benefiting from TAAT, the initiative is bringing a…

The COVID-19 pandemic has a major impact on startup development and venture capital investments in Africa as well as globally. At the same time, the “new normal” of social or…

The elephant in the corner for Jumia has always been the problem of logistics/delivery. Jumia has failed to achieve scalability across the 10 national markets it operates into due mainly to delivery…