Author: Brand Spot

Binance is calling for greater user awareness across Africa as adoption of digital assets continues to gain pace across the continent. Africa is fast becoming one of the most active regions globally for cryptocurrency use, with individuals and businesses increasingly turning to digital assets for more efficient payments, improved access to financial services, and greater participation in the global economy. This momentum reflects a broader shift towards more inclusive and accessible financial systems. As adoption accelerates, awareness is becoming an increasingly important part of the conversation. Like many areas of digital finance, the growing visibility of crypto has also drawn…

Recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting South African internet infrastructure providers, web hosting companies and connectivity services reflect a broader escalation in both the scale and sophistication of cyberthreats facing the country’s digital economy, according to NETSCOUT. The warning follows a wave of high-profile local incidents that reportedly disrupted hosting providers, ISPs and internet infrastructure services across the country, raising concerns around increasingly coordinated and potentially extortion-linked DDoS activity. “The recent incidents impacting South African infrastructure providers demonstrate how DDoS campaigns are evolving beyond isolated disruptions into broader attacks against critical digital ecosystems, states Bryan Hamman, area vice president for…

Buying Airtel airtime is now easier because you can top up directly from M-Pesa using Pesapal Paybill number 220220. This is one of the most-used Paybill numbers for Airtel airtime purchases and is ideal when you need a fast, reliable way to stay connected. You do not need to visit a shop, buy a scratch card, or look for an agent. You can complete the full process from your phone in a few simple steps. Steps to Buy Airtel Airtime from M-Pesa Follow these steps: Once the payment is successful, you will receive an M-Pesa confirmation message, and the airtime should…

By Shakeel Jhazbhay, General Manager: Digital Business Solutions at Datacentrix With artificial intelligence moving rapidly from experimentation to strategic priority, today’s businesses are collecting more information than ever before. However, many are overlooking a fundamental question during this process: is the information feeding these AI initiatives actually ready? For years, businesses have focused on collecting and storing data. Information now exists across emails, contracts, collaboration platforms, shared drives, cloud repositories, enterprise applications and archives. However, volume alone does not create value. The reality is that much of this data remains unmanaged, inaccessible or underutilised. Often referred to as ‘dark data’, this…

By Veerakumar Natarajan, Country Head, Zoho Kenya Africa has always found its own way around barriers. When fixed-line banking proved too slow and too exclusionary, Kenya did not wait for the infrastructure to catch up. It built M-Pesa instead, a mobile payments platform that by 2022 had 50 million customers across seven African countries and processed nearly 20 billion individual transactions annually. That story is now so well-worn that it risks becoming a cliché. But it contains a genuinely instructive logic: constrained circumstances, properly understood, can become a design brief. Today, Africa faces a new set of constraints, around software…

PayAngel, a cross-border payments platform built by migrants and shaped by a lived understanding of the migrant journey, today announced an expanded collaboration with Visa. Leveraging Currencycloud, a Visa Direct solution, PayAngel will strengthen its multicurrency account and international payout capabilities. The collaboration enables PayAngel to support faster, more efficient cross border payouts across multiple currencies and countries, enhancing how individuals and businesses move money internationally. This capability supports everyday use cases that matter to PayAngel’s customers, from contributing to family milestones and fulfilling communal obligations, to supporting businesses that operate across borders. Born out of a desire to challenge the high costs, friction, and…

Afrika Tikkun, a leading South African non-profit organisation dedicated to holistic youth development, has significantly strengthened its strategy execution capability through a tactical partnership with Project Portfolio Office. By implementing PPO, Project Portfolio Office’s centralised, cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) platform, Afrika Tikkun has enhanced governance, improved accountability and increased its ability to translate strategic intent into measurable, large-scale outcomes. Strengthening execution through integrated portfolio management As Afrika Tikkun’s cradle-to-career model expanded across early childhood development through its Bambanani programme, adolescent support through Ignite, and youth employability through Head Start, the limitations of decentralised project management practices became increasingly apparent. Critical…

The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, through its Magical Kenya, Origin of Wonder platform, and Google Kenya today announce a strategic AI-driven partnership. The collaboration follows a recommendation from the Kenya Tourism Rebranding and Repositioning Taskforce. It will advance the Ministry’s ambition to establish Kenya as Africa’s foremost AI-first tourism marketing destination. Centred on the Magical Kenya platform, the partnership is designed to connect global travellers directly with Kenya’s distinctive tourism experiences. The aim is to increase visitor numbers, generate new employment and shift destination management from intuition-based policy to a realtime, data driven system that meets the demand for…

Vertiv supported Open Access Data Centres (OADC), a WIOCC Group company, in standardising power and cooling infrastructure at its Parklands data centre in Johannesburg, enabling faster capacity deployment, higher‑density workloads and scalable growth without operational disruption. Originally deployed by Vertiv as a prefabricated, modular, Tier III-compliant data centre for a pan-African telecommunications provider, the Parklands facility was designed to support phased expansion and evolving workload requirements. By standardising on Vertiv infrastructure, OADC can accelerate deployments, support higher‑density customer workloads and expand data centre capacity without major redesign. The facility uses integrated Vertiv™ power protection, thermal management, containment, and energy storage, designed to adapt to changing load profiles, improve energy efficiency,…

The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) has shifted its new Digital and Health Action Pathways into a higher gear in order to accelerate the continent’s economic transformation by identifying and driving solutions to problems that slow progress. Convening on the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda on 15 May, the GABI Solutions Lab challenged some of Africa’s top business leaders to develop an ambitious, actionable work plan to overcome the roadblocks holding the continent back. “Africa does not face a shortage of ideas, but a significant gap in execution and the financing required to scale solutions,” said…