Posts by Dikonketso
Survey on The Opportunities and Challenges for Women in the AfCFTA
UN Women, in partnership with the AfCFTA Secretariat and UNDP, is undertaking a survey to understand the challenges and opportunities that women and women-led businesses face around the establishment of…
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AfCFTA Starts to Draft the Protocol on Investment EFA has been invited to the group of experts called by the AfCFTA Secretariat to draft the Investment Protocol. This is intended…
Read MoreAround the World – Some Interesting and Some Disturbing News
The latest from the USA – TikTok has expanded its partnership with Shopify to add in-app shopping — a first for the video app. Participating Shopify merchants will be able…
Read MoreThe Future of the National Postal Operators in the Era of COVID
National postal operators around the world have struggled for the last decade (or more) with the drastic reduction in personal and business mail, offset with the increase in ecommerce parcels…
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Malware – A WhatsApp Function Has Been Infested The 16.80.0 version of FMWhatsApp has been found by the leading cybersecurity company, Kaspersky, to contain the Triada Trojan in one of…
Read MoreSARB’s Plans For The New Payments Industry Body (PIB) Progresses
We reported last month that SARB is pushing the Payments Association (PASA) to propose a new association that will be inclusive of all players in the financial environment. From various…
Read MoreMSMEs to the Rescue
According to a new World Bank study on South Africa’s economy, if the entrepreneurship ecosystem is strengthened, the increasing number of startups in the country could become an engine of…
Read MoreNew Ecommerce Users Increased by 5% in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020
VISA has issued the ‘Ecommerce developments across Sub-Saharan Africa’ report which points out that the pandemic has driven customers to ecommerce and digital payments. The report also points out that…
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