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| Feb 19, 2026 | How AI is rewriting the rules of consulting | PwC South Africa’s Mark Allderman
AI is reshaping the consulting industry globally, altering business models, project life cycles and how engagements are priced. Some of these changes are reflected in the local market, with the shift away f... |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Africa’s streaming boom – millions ditch legacy TV for on-demand content | Streaming platforms are gaining strong momentum in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, fuelled by improved mobile connectivity and shifting consumer viewing habits.
According to PwC’s latest Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook – Perspective... |
| Oct 23, 2025 | AI, 5G and gaming power Africa’s new media economy | South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria’s entertainment and media (E&M) industries are surpassing some global growth trends, with digital innovation, mobile-first audiences and the rapid integration of generative AI seen as driving the future o... |
| Sep 16, 2025 | South Africa’s telecoms sector has a customer sentiment problem | The telecommunications sector scored lowest in customer sentiment compared to other major industries in 2024, according to the PwC South African Telecommunications Sentiment Index, produced in collaboration with DataEQ.
“Sentiment data offe... |
| Nov 25, 2024 | R20-billion earmarked for expansion of hi-tech Waterfall City precinct | A portion of Waterfall City. Image: Attacq Management Services
South African property group Attacq has earmarked R20-billion to further develop its flagship Waterfall City commercial and logistics hub on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
“I’ve... |
| Aug 4, 2024 | Music startups in Africa that have raised over $100K funding | The African music industry is experiencing rapid growth, with the continent’s music scene buoyed by increasing global popularity among a young, tech-savvy population.
Digital music platforms like Boomplay, Deezer, Spotify, and Apple Music h... |
| Feb 19, 2024 | 2024 Budget Speech: General Fuel Levy increase likely | Economists predict the 2024 Budget Speech will see a General Fuel Levy and Road Accident Fund increase. Image: File
The 2024 Budget Speech takes place this Wednesday, 21 February. In it, economists predict Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana ... |
| Dec 10, 2023 | Will it be cash or card this festive season? | Cash or Card is the question all South Africans grapple with when it comes to daily purchases.Images-CANVA.
In today’s fast-paced world, the choice between using cash or a card for your purchases is a decision many people face daily.
ALSO R... |
| Nov 9, 2023 | Cash or Card: Which is the better payment option? | Cash or Card is the question all South Africans grapple with when it comes to daily purchases.Images-CANVA.
In today’s fast-paced world, the choice between using cash or a card for your purchases is a decision many people face daily.
ALSO R... |
| Oct 13, 2023 | African hotels are leveraging the worldwide shift in tourism trends | In 1919, American businessman Conrad Hilton saved up $5,000 to buy a bank in a small town called Cisco in Texas. Texas was experiencing an oil boom at the time, and it was having a ripple effect on the banks in the area. However, when he ar... |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Why does Africa matter to the Big 5? | In the past couple of decades, since the end of colonisation, there has been a scramble for a piece of Africa through pseudo-colonisation by the West. The West has resorted to subtle acts of exploitation on the continent due to the immense ... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Industry gathers to explore digital transformation in mining | Wilhelm Swart, chief operational technologies officer at 4Sight Holdings.
Digital transformation in the mining, metals and manufacturing sectors will come under scrutiny in November, as industry leaders gather to explore tech investment opp... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | 5 Steps You Can Take To Manage A Hike In Interest Rates | Interest Rate. Image source -Shutterstock |
| Sep 15, 2022 | Using address data to reduce risk, improve profitability | Eight years ago, a prominent South African bank
BANK UC-Wireless is a solutions-based distributor for integrated wireless communications in healthcare, mining, education, hospitality and retail.
collapsed because of irrecoverable unsecured ... |
| Aug 30, 2022 | Can you wait a week? September’s petrol price will be SLASHED! | SA motorists are still expected to receive what would be a second month of ‘good news’ from soaring petrol prices in early September. Photo: File / Archive
It’s as good as locked in at this point, people: The long-anticipated petrol price d... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | With 7% of the population, white citizens make-up 78% of SA’s top CEOs | Surprisingly, there is only ONE CEO featured who is from a ‘coloured’ background – Photo: Unsplash
According to a new study from Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC), the demographics of the top boardrooms in South Africa are still failing to repr... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | Organisational Culture Change Needed To Address Gender Bias In Africa’s ICT Space | Doreen Kinja |
| Jun 30, 2022 | Believe it or not, there is ONE positive to our current fuel price dilemma… | Photo: Gallo Images/Misha Jordaan
We know, it’s scarcely-fathomable that any sort of benefit whatsoever that can be associated with our current fuel price nightmare. However, a set of economic experts believe they have identified one positi... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | Female engineers unpack persistent barriers to STEM fields | Silindile Dlamini, security consulting engineer at Cisco Systems.
Removing the barriers hindering women from entering the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) fields is the answer to South Africa’s enormous ICT skills gap and h... |
| Jun 1, 2022 | SARS exemptions: Here’s who DOES NOT have to file a tax return for 2022 | In total, there are six possible exemptions for filing a tax return – Photo: File
The financial experts at Price Waterhouse Copper (PWC) say that they have been notified of SARS’ intentions to declare the start of ‘filing season’ this week ... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | The Importance Of Supporting Gender Equality In The Tech Industry | (centre) Aisha Pandor, CEO & Co-Founder of SweepSouth & SweepStars |
| Apr 19, 2022 | SA tech firms must amplify support for gender equality | While there has been progress in creating greater workplace diversity in SA’s IT industry, huge gender representation gaps still remain, say ICT industry leaders.
Discussing gender equality ahead of International Girls in ICT Day next Thurs... |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Sokowatch rebrands to Wasoko as it raises $125M Series B from Tiger Global and Avenir | Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods sold through its channels yearly. Yet its industry remains highly fragmented as shop owners and kiosks still have issues around access to capital and ... |
| Mar 11, 2022 | Darker days ahead – stage four load-shedding alert | Barry Venter, CEO, Nashua South Africa.
South Africa is experiencing stage four load-shedding, with the possibility of moving to stage six before the weekend. Load-shedding is not only inconvenient, it’s here to stay. Over and above the imp... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Companies' failure to innovate leads to 'great quit' in SA | Failure by South Africa-based non-executive directors to successfully harness digital technologies to make pertinent company decisions is one of the key factors contributing to SA’s “great resignation”.
This is one of the findings of the Pw... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | YC-backed Namibian startup JABU gets $3.2M for its B2B e-commerce and retail play | Namibian business-to-business e-commerce startup JABU confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $3.2 million financing round.
The seed round, which was closed last year, welcomed investors such as Afore Capital, Y Combinator, FJ Labs, Qu... |
| Dec 17, 2021 | Venture Platform’s $40m fund, Google’s investment in SafeBoda, Alitheia IDF’s $100m fund | Share this article:
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| Nov 19, 2021 | Filling the financial IT skills gap | Sue Richards, IT Consulting and Resourcing Manager, JMR Software.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for digital transformation and appears to have indirectly impacted the availability of certain skill sets, particularly those a... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | Omnibiz gets $3M to digitize Nigeria’s informal B2B supply chain | Despite the prevalence of shopping malls and the emergence of VC-backed e-commerce companies like Jumia, informal retail in Africa is still king. |
| Oct 25, 2021 | Kenya’s MarketForce raises $2M | A 2016 study by global consultancy PwC states that an estimated 90% of sales in Africa’s major economies come through informal channels like markets and kiosks. In sub-Saharan Africa, 90% of these household retail transactions are carried o... |
| Sep 3, 2021 | SA tech firms strive to disrupt gender status quo | South African technology firms are stepping up efforts to hire more women, as they also press forward to ensure more women progress to C-suite roles.
Although more women have entered SA’s male-dominated tech industry over the past few years... |
| Aug 17, 2021 | TransUnion, Corporate Insights tech tool fights fraud, corruption | Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion, together with forensic technology firm Corporate Insights, has unveiled a lifestyle assessment solution, which it says curbs the scourge of fraud and corruption in SA.
The solution uses big data ... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Omnibiz gets $3M to digitize Nigeria’s informal B2B supply chain | Despite the prevalence of shopping malls and the emergence of VC-backed e-commerce companies like Jumia, informal retail in Africa is still king.
A 2016 study by PwC states that 90% of sales in Africa’s major economies come through informal... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Omnibiz gets $3M to digitize Nigeria’s informal B2B supply chain | Despite the prevalence of shopping malls and the emergence of VC-backed e-commerce companies like Jumia, informal retail in Africa is still king. |
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| Jul 8, 2021 | Kenya’s MarketForce raises $2M, plans to focus on its B2B retail marketplace RejaReja | A 2016 study by global consultancy PwC states that an estimated 90% of sales in Africa’s major economies come through informal channels like markets and kiosks. In sub-Saharan Africa, 90% of these household retail transactions are carried o... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Wayja releases SA’s first peer-to-peer betting app | Joburg-based startup Wayja launched its cashless peer-to-peer betting platform earlier this month. The application allows users to connect with friends and make cashless wagers on anything, from anywhere.
Officially founded in 2020 by Reec... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Wayja releases SA’s first peer-to-peer betting app | Joburg-based startup Wayja launched its cashless peer-to-peer betting platform earlier this month. The application allows users to connect with friends and make cashless wagers on anything, from anywhere.
Officially founded in 2020 by Reece... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | African CEOs plan to reduce headcount in automation push | Dion Shango, CEO of PwC Africa.
Around 34% of surveyed CEOs from Africa admit they plan to decrease their organisations' headcount within the next 12 months, as they significantly increase investments in digital transformation initiatives a... |
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| Feb 25, 2020 | Sokowatch Raises $14 million to Revamp Supply-chain Markets for Retailers | Sokowatch, a Kenya-based e-commerce startup, has raised $14 million Series A funding, to revamp its supply-chain market for informal retailers in Africa. Quona Capital led the financing round joined by Amplo, Breyer Capital, Vertex Ventures... |
| Feb 23, 2020 | Sokowatch raises $14M to digitize Africa’s informal B2B supply-chain | Kenya based B2B e-commerce startup Sokowatch has raised $14 million in Series A funding toward its mission of revamping supply-chain markets for Africa’s informal retailers.
From Nairobi, the company has created a platform that connects mer... |
| May 28, 2019 | PwC focuses on cyber attacks | Cyber attacks: The invisible threat
PwC is seeing an escalation in the sophistication and impact of cyber attacks across the globe. This, coupled with the fact that organisations need to protect themselves against a plethora of attacks whil... |
| Feb 1, 2019 | Music, entertainment and tech to collide at Africa Tech Summit Kigali | Share this:
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| Dec 4, 2018 | Digital newcomers out to disrupt South African banking | By Tiisetso Motsoeneng, Nomvelo Chalumbira, Wendell Roelf
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Armed with low-cost operating models, three South African digital banks are betting on aggressive pricing and data analytics to attract tech-savvy... |
| Jun 29, 2018 | ORT, Chevron teach coding in local schools | The pupils will be presenting their projects at an event in November 2018.
Non-profit educational organisation ORT SA, in partnership with petroleum products supplier Chevron SA, has introduced coding programmes aimed at upskilling 150 lear... |
| Feb 9, 2018 | Silicon Cape: Ellen Fischat and Alexandra Fraser resign | Ellen Fischat has stepped down as managing director of Silicon Cape, while another long standing member of the organisation’s leadership team, director and board member Alexandra Fraser has also resigned.
Fraser said the two resignations a... |
| Feb 9, 2018 | Silicon Cape: Ellen Fischat and Alexandra Fraser resign | Ellen Fischat has stepped down as managing director of Silicon Cape, while another long standing member of the organisation’s leadership team, director and board member Alexandra Fraser has also resigned.
Fraser said the two resignations ar... |
| Feb 8, 2018 | Investing in African startups: The good, the bad, and the hopeful | Share this article:
It’s no news. The African tech scene is sizzling and a lot of foreign and local players are helping to spice it up (with their investments). Hundreds of private equity firms are equitably distributing resources among pot... |
| Oct 30, 2017 | Drones see $9.46bn market in power, utilities industries | The global market in drone-powered solutions for the power and utilities industries is estimated to be worth around $9.46 billion a year.
This is according to PricewaterhouseCooper's (PwC) report titled 'Clarity from above: Leveraging drone... |
| May 1, 2017 | How OgaVenue is taking hold of the $20 billion events industry in Nigeria | Share this article:
In most parts of the world, the hospitality industry has been a source of optimal return for investors who were quick to identify its immense role in advancing economic growth.
Back in Nigeria, this wasn’t the case for a... |
| Sep 22, 2016 | Internet access in SA worth R68,5bn by 2020 | |
| Jun 18, 2015 | Digital killing the CD star in Africa | |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Gambling in Africa: Is This Prospering Enterprise Worth The Addiction Cost? | Everyone agrees gambling is on the rise in Africa, but while some are happy about the growth of the industry, others are worried about the growing problem of addiction in the continent.
Professional services network, PricewaterhouseCoopers ... |
| Jul 23, 2014 | Check out these 10 WDC startups pitching at PwC’s Vision to Reality Awards | PricewaterhouseCoopers’s (PwC) Vision to Reality programme in collaboration with Word Design Capital 2014 (WDC2014) will be hosting the seventh pitching session of WDC2014. Ten local startups — chosen for their “cutting-edge tech design, in... |
| Jul 23, 2014 | Check out these 10 WDC startups pitching at PwC’s Vision to Reality Awards | PricewaterhouseCoopers’s (PwC) Vision to Reality programme in collaboration with Word Design Capital 2014 (WDC2014) will be hosting the seventh pitching session of WDC2014. Ten local startups — chosen for their “cutting-edge tech design, in... |
| Sokowatch Raises $14 million to Revamp Supply-chain Markets for Retailers | Sokowatch, a Kenya-based e-commerce startup, has raised $14 million Series A funding, to revamp its supply-chain market for informal retailers in Africa. Quona Capital led the financing round joined by Amplo, Breyer Capital, Vertex Ventures... |
