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Whether you’re buying or selling, Flash is here to Top Up Your Life.
With innovative technology that allows shops to sell everyone’s favourite virtual essentials, Flash gets people the things they need in their community.
At a Flash Shop (a shop with a Flash machine), you can buy airtime, data, electricity, Lotto, Netflix, Uber, Spotify, and Roblox Vouchers, pay municipal bills, retail accounts, your DStv account, buy & RICA SIM cards, send money & airtime overseas and more!
Interested in becoming a Flash Trader? Send us a message or call the Flash Call Centre:
083 903 5274 (Free on MTN)
084 193 5274 (Free on Cell C)
Find everything you need to know about Flash at www.flash.co.za
With innovative technology that allows shops to sell everyone’s favourite virtual essentials, Flash gets people the things they need in their community.
At a Flash Shop (a shop with a Flash machine), you can buy airtime, data, electricity, Lotto, Netflix, Uber, Spotify, and Roblox Vouchers, pay municipal bills, retail accounts, your DStv account, buy & RICA SIM cards, send money & airtime overseas and more!
Interested in becoming a Flash Trader? Send us a message or call the Flash Call Centre:
083 903 5274 (Free on MTN)
084 193 5274 (Free on Cell C)
Find everything you need to know about Flash at www.flash.co.za
Overview
Location
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town
Employees
501-1000
Phone
+27 84 193 5274
Founded date
1999
Mentions in press and media 11
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| Jul 23, 2026 | Solve taxis and cash dies: Shop2Shop’s township thesis | South Africa’s informal economy is heading for a wave of formalisation in which spaza shop owners become multi-store entrepreneurs and cash all but vanishes from the townships, according to Shop2Shop founder and CEO Peter Berry. Speaking on... |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Pepkor builds R21-billion fintech giant – and plans to list it | Pepkor CEO Pieter Erasmus Pepkor is merging its Flash business with Shop2Shop to create one of South Africa’s largest fintech platforms focused on the informal economy. It’s a combination valued at R21.3-billion that the retail group plans ... |
| Nov 26, 2024 | The retailer that dominates phone sales in South Africa | JSE-listed retail group Pepkor Holdings – owner of Pep, Pep Cell, Hi-Fi Corporation and Incredible Connection – continues to dominate cellphone handset sales in South Africa, with 11.5 million devices sold in the year ended 30 September 202... |
| May 21, 2024 | TymeBank comes to 172 000 spaza shops | TymeBank, the digital bank in which Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital (ARC) is majority shareholder, has partnered with Flash – a payments solutions provider with a large footprint in the informal trading market – to offer TymeBank ... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Airbuy allows cash-only customers to make online payments | Local fintech start-up Airbuy has signed a partnership deal with 1Voucher, a subsidiaryof voucher distribution firm Flash Group, to enable online payments for shoppers, using a voucher instead of a bank BANK UC-Wireless is a solutions-based... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | PayGas plans to install 52 Pay-as-you-gas stations in SA | Cape Town-based energy tech startup PayGas is partnering with Afrox, South Africa’s leading Liquified Petroleum Gas company, to roll-out 52 Pay-as-you-gas™ stations in townships across the country. The partnership will result in the deploy... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | PayGas plans to install 52 Pay-as-you-gas stations in SA | Cape Town-based energy tech startup PayGas is partnering with Afrox, South Africa’s leading Liquified Petroleum Gas company, to roll-out 52 Pay-as-you-gas™ stations in townships across the country. The partnership will result in the deploym... |
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FAQ about Flash
When was Flash founded?
Flash was founded in 1999.
What has the press written about Flash?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Flash, among them “Solve taxis and cash dies: Shop2Shop’s township thesis” (Jul 23, 2026) and “Pepkor builds R21-billion fintech giant – and plans to list it” (Jul 22, 2026).
Is Flash still active?
Yes, Flash is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 30, 2026.