Posts by Alastair Tempest
The African Export Import Bank Launches a pan-African B2B e-Platform
The Afreximbank Africa Buyers Programme has been extended to allow its members to sell or buy in bulk through the newly launched Africa Trade Exchange (ATEX). ATEX is a centralized…
Read MoreSA Launches a New Border Authority
President Cyril Ramaphosa launched of the Border Management Authority (BMA) in October The launch of the BMA follows its formal establishment and assumption of its status as a schedule 3…
Read MoreHijacking of Ecommerce Delivery Services on the Increase in SA
The vehicle tracking group, Tracker, has warned that hijackers and other criminals are increasingly targeting delivery drivers in SA. Tracker feels that more hijacking will occur as ecommerce companies aim…
Read MoreCross-Border Payments in Africa and Concerns Over the Quantity of US Dollars Available for African Trade
On Friday 8 December at 10.00 EFA will host a session at the UNCTAD eWeek on Cross-border Payments and Creating a Regional Common Currency (see above). We are holding this…
Read MoreBalancing Inclusion Through Mobile Money and Taxation of the Previously Untaxed
Governments’ enthusiasm of mobile money as a means to include the previously unbanked, has always had a second side to the coin – the hope that inclusion will result in…
Read MoreBack to COP – Investment Urgently Needed, and Carbon Credit Markets for Africa
Ahead of the 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 28), the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has launched country-by-country economic reports to guide African policymakers in their discussions…
Read MoreAfrican Fintechs Continue to Attract Record Levels of Acquisitions
Disrupt Africa’s “Finnovating for Africa” publication, released every 2 years since June 2017, tracks the extraordinary development of the fintech ecosystem across Africa. The fourth edition of the report was…
Read MorePPRO Publishes Stats on Ecommerce
According to PPRO The average online shopper in South Africa spends $166 a year with ecommerce merchants, rising to $192 by 2027. In 2023, the South African ecommerce market will be…
Read MoreThe African Internet Registry Has Problems
AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa: a non-profit, nongovernmental Internet governance organization, which operates a registry for unique internet protocol (IP) numbers that serve as network addresses.…
Read MoreSA Information Regulator Investigates Data Breach of DisChem’s Customers
The Regulator has invited both DisChem and its third party service provider, Grapevine, to explain a major breach which has allegedly lost details of 3.6m of DisChem’s clients earlier this…
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