Infobip launches AI fan companion for global football
Infobip has launched PitchMate, a new AI-powered conversational agent that brings football fans closer to the action of the world’s biggest football tournament. Purpose-built for the global football audience, PitchMate joins the TGR Haas F1 Team RaceMate — Infobip’s...
AI is secretly disenfranchising the youth who use it ‘best’
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...
SARS improves auto-assessments, but taxpayers warned to check carefully
As the 2026 filing season opens, millions of South Africans will receive a SARS auto-assessment based on data SARS already holds. SARS has enhanced parts of its auto-assessment process and online tax assistant, TaxTim advises taxpayers to do a careful review before...
SA has too many ways to pay. Will they make cards extinct?
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...
AI will change your retirement in three ways. Only one of them is good news
We use AI to work faster, not harder. It does the heavy lifting so we don’t have to. It’s our go-to for planning finances, finding recipes, planning travel itineraries, hacking DIY projects, and even troubleshooting personal dilemmas. By Michael Rossouw, senior...
SARS alert system helps taxpayers avoid mistakes
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has introduced several changes to this year’s Filing Season to make the process easier and smoother. The aim is to get it right the first time. One of the changes is a new declaration alert questionnaire to assist with...
Why young South Africans stopped asking professionals what to do
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
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...
How a school run led to inDrive’s latest anti-bullying initiative
School bullying remains one of the most widespread yet least visible challenges affecting young people around the world. While many children experience bullying, far fewer speak openly about it, often leaving parents and caregivers unaware that anything is wrong. In...
Payments are modernising faster than most businesses realise
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...
Amazon debuts Prime in SA
Amazon.co.za has launched Amazon Prime in South Africa, Amazon’s membership programme that provides members a combination of unlimited free delivery, savings and entertainment benefits. Prime benefits include unlimited free same-day and next-day delivery on a wide...
Peach Payments adds Apple Pay in Mauritius
African payment service provider Peach Payments is bringing its merchants in Mauritius Apple Pay, a safer, more secure and private way to pay that helps customers avoid handing their payment card to someone else, touching physical buttons or exchanging cash — while...