AI is secretly disenfranchising the youth who use it ‘best’

AI is secretly disenfranchising the youth who use it ‘best’

Jul 3, 2026

In 1976, South Africa’s youth took to the streets to claim educational agency and the hard-won right to self-determination. Fifty years later, our young digital natives face a quieter, subtler crisis: the gradual surrender of that very critical reasoning and agency to...
SA has too many ways to pay. Will they make cards extinct?

SA has too many ways to pay. Will they make cards extinct?

Jun 25, 2026

South Africa has never had more ways to pay, writes Ntombenhle Annegbe-Enahoro, IPP product manager at Ecentric. At the point of sale in 2026, a consumer can tap or insert a card, open a banking app and make a PayShap transfer, scan a QR while deciding to split the...
Why young South Africans stopped asking professionals what to do

Why young South Africans stopped asking professionals what to do

Jun 15, 2026

South Africa’s financial literacy infrastructure has not kept up with how young people consume information, and that gap has consequences for all of us. By Pedri Reyneke, CEO of Multilink Financial Services On Youth Day, it is tempting to frame this as a cautionary...

The promise of 1976 was never meant to end at the classroom door

Jun 15, 2026

This Youth Day (tomorrow, 16 June) marks 50 years since the school children of Soweto were met with deadly police force for marching against Bantu Education. They were demanding a different future, and the promise made back to them, renewed at democracy, was that...

Payments are modernising faster than most businesses realise

Jun 8, 2026

Just a few years ago, most South African businesses largely thought about payments in fairly simple terms: cash or card. That no longer feels true, even for relatively small merchants, many of whom now have to accommodate QR payments, digital wallets, real-time...