Oct 19, 2026
South African brands have been handed a reprieve in the United States, but not certainty. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the US trade programme that has given eligible sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the American market since 2000,...
Oct 6, 2026
Black Friday has evolved. What was once a single day of discount-driven frenzy has stretched into weeks of promotional activity, now widely described as Black November, quietly changing the question South African ecommerce businesses need to be asking. “What we tend...
Aug 31, 2026
South Africa’s e-commerce sector is booming. The market is on track to surpass R130-billion in turnover this year. Local online sales are growing at roughly 20% and the sector handles over 100-million shipments annually. According to World Wide Worx, online shopping...
Jul 23, 2026
Bots are no longer the enemy, and the inversion dilemma is real, explains Judy Winn, CISO at Peach Payments. For 20 years, payment security treated bots as the enemy. Agentic commerce just flipped that assumption upside down. Over the last year, agentic commerce has...
Jul 14, 2026
As Africa’s digital payments market grows, ecommerce businesses need to treat checkout as part of the customer experience, not just the final step in a sale Jonatan Allbäck, CEO and co-founder of NjiaPay Nobody builds an online store hoping customers will give up at...
Jun 9, 2026
It has happened before. Physical commerce brought products closer to consumers through stores, malls and distribution networks, making access easier and more immediate. By Adheesh Ori, customer and growth lead for consumer goods and services: retail and automotive at...
