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Payments company Xago has just won serious endorsement from Capitec Bank. Xago founders Jurgen Kuhnel and Mark Chirnside explain what this means.

17 Nov 2020 English South Africa Tech News · Investing

Can tokenisation spark an economic revival in SA?

How much value is tied up in frozen assets in SA? If we can unfreeze these assets through tokenisation – allowing ordinary South Africans to buy fractions of companies, properties and even farms and rare wines, what value could be unlocked? Shiven Moodley, CEO of Novaque, brings us a little…

21 May 22 min

Dawie Roodt: Do we still need exchange controls?

The Efficient Group chief economist weighs in on new exchange control regulations and doesn’t like them one bit – nor, it appears, does he have much time for any kind of controls.

14 May 21 min

$1.2bn spent on crypto in a week and the market didn’t blink

Institutions ploughed $1.2bn into bitcoin in a week and markets didn't blink. Cape Crypto CEO Leon Kowalski explains what's really driving crypto and shares his fiery take on government's proposed exchange control changes.

7 May 21 min

New exchange control rules: ‘If they pass, we’re leaving SA’

Adopting Bitcoin conference co-organiser Ricki Allardice takes a temperature reading of the room after publication of draft exchange control regulations ... and it’s getting hot.

29 Apr 25 min

Something new: A multi-currency token to rule them all

And it promises to be more stable than a stablecoin.

23 Apr 19 min