Bryan Habana is Mastercard Ambassador for Rugby World Cup 2019

Former South African player Bryan Habana is the latest rugby icon to be announced as a Mastercard ambassador for Rugby World Cup 2019. Habana, part of the South African team that won Rugby World Cup 2007, and one of the top test try scorers of all time, will help...

Accenture digitally transforms fan experience for SA Rugby

Accenture has revealed its plans to transform fan engagement for Springbok supporters following the launch of SA Rugby’s new responsive digital fan platform. The reimagining and building of the new digital fan platform forms part of Accenture Digital’s...

Spaza shop fintech closes a gap in R40bn cash market

It is estimated that the spaza shop market in South Africa is valued at around R40 billion per year and that 90% or more of the transactions are in cash. This market is growing at around 10% each year. Despite this statistic of unaccounted cash, South Africa’s...

Nedbank app gets a virtual assistant

Nedbank has incorporated a virtual assistant into its banking app. HeyNed, a digital virtual personal assistant and concierge service, uses a network of more than 350 000 product and service providers to linking app users to what they need. In addition to the...

Making mobile wallets ‘stick’

Mobile wallets may offer some convenience, but until they offer a broad range of simple, seamless transaction capabilities, and give users more value than that of their cash alone, they will still lack consumer ‘stickiness’. This is according to Kobus du...

Central plant optimisation software offers energy savings

More than 35% of the power required to run a building is consumed in one place: the central chilled water plant. While there is value in connecting the building management system (BMS) to schedule plant run time, very little beats central plant optimisation (CPO)...