South Africa’s $21.5 billion SME funding gap is really a data problem
The OECD's Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2026 report found that 56% of South Africa's MSMEs are unregistered.
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Terra Industries leads $1m round in Aeon to build Africa’s cyber defence layer
Aeon will use the funding to develop its cybersecurity products, expand business development, and turn existing pilots with financial services and cloud infrastructure companies into commercial deployments.
The banker helping FNB Connect turn cellphones into gateways to everyday life
As a boy growing up in Empangeni, a small town in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province, Sashin Sookroo had already decided that he wanted to be an engineer.
Why fintechs are charging ₦0 to sell Dangote shares
Nigeria’s biggest Initial Public Offering (IPO) should be a big payday for the fintechs helping investors buy it, but they are charging customers ₦0.
Mafab to give up its 5G spectrum as Nigeria starts a bigger clean-up
If approved, the transfer would mark a significant reversal for Mafab, which paid $273.6 million in 2021 to secure a 100 MHz block.
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – Africa gets a pep talk
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية TGIF. ☀️️ Trade finance can take days. In Mauritius, it took less than an hour. Mauritius Commercial Bank and Export Trading Group (ETG), a Mauritian agribusiness company, said they have completed Africa’s first electronic Bill of Exchange
Nigeria’s data localisation deadline is testing its financial infrastructure
Localisation is fundamentally an engineering and governance hurdle rather than a simple real-estate mandate for servers.
Xiaomi 18 Pro Max: What you should know about the latest flagship
Xiaomi has started teasing its next Pro flagship, but most Xiaomi 18 Pro Max specs and pricing remain unconfirmed ahead of its expected China launch.
Before AI saves the world, can it help fix everyday life?
Artificial intelligence (AI) could make meaningful improvements to human life. The possibility that it might help doctors detect diseases earlier, accelerate scientific research, or make knowledge more accessible deserves to be taken seriously.
Biochar Industrial Group raises $1.5m to turn Africa’s agricultural waste into carbon credits
BIG will also use the capital to hire engineering, operations, logistics, and carbon-verification staff and build systems to monitor and verify the carbon removed through its process.