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Before either borrower's guilt or innocence was considered, the magistrate asked a single prior question: were these companies legally allowed to lend at all? They couldn't prove it. Cases struck out.

Vodacom just lifted its 2030 revenue target by ZAR100 billion — from ZAR200 billion to ZAR300 billion — within weeks of taking a controlling 55% stake in Safaricom.

For years, the only realistic way out for a South African fintech founder was to wait for a foreign acquirer. Nedbank buying iKhokha for R1.65 billion, Capitec taking WalletDoc, TymeBank absorbing Retail Capital — these deals matter…

Vodacom processed $548 billion through mobile phones in twelve months. That number is bigger than the entire GDP of most African countries, moving through handsets, not branches, reaching people who have never held a bank account.

890 MW in the pipeline sounds like the continent is catching up fast.

Rwanda just cut the cost of moving money between a bank and a mobile wallet from roughly $3.40 to one US cent — flat, regardless of amount.

Five governments signing onto a shared AI language platform is genuinely meaningful — but the launch isn't the hard part.

The detail that settles the debate is buried in the capital requirements: Kenya has deliberately placed crypto businesses inside a prudential framework — the same supervisory logic applied to licensed banks and fund managers, not to…

MTN and Vodacom are using the courts to fight a rule they helped make inevitable.

The source data isn't available here, so the specific numbers aren't mine to quote — but the direction is clear enough to sit with.