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Is what you’re hearing really real? Deepfake videos have gotten a lot of attention (especially after it happened to Taylor Swift) but more troublin...

One of the most important new technologies in our renewable energy future is one you've probably never heard of. Called wheeling, it is the way...

Most of South Africa's youth don’t watch a TV set. Why should they? They have a mobile entertainment console in their hands that can access the...

Before he sold his startup to Workday, MIT-trained Sayan Chakraborty worked at NASA’s famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer on interplanet...

For many millions, a mobile phone is their only computer and their only screen. Jason Lobel, MTN South Africa’s head of video, wants to get streami...

PayShap is the biggest thing to happen in banking in South Africa, if it is done right, says TymeBank’s co-founder and group CEO Coen Jonker. The n...

Instead of buying expensive textbooks, which learners are stuck with, what if you could “rent” them? Calling it a "Spotify for textbooks,"...

Gaming is still a fundamental way us humans interact and hasn't always been on a high-tech console, MTN’s gaming geeks tell Stuff editor-in-chi...

“Going solar” is the catch phrase of the year. Again. But how do you tell the shysters from the bone fide solar installers? And how do you get fina...

South Africans are good at solving problems. With extreme load-shredding, we’ve started finding alternatives in true “n boer maak ‘n plan” style. F...

With rolling blackouts hitting stage 6, insurance companies have stopped insuring against some Eskom-related claims. But, if your home solar system...

Smartphones have taken over many other functions from other devices, including, most recently, most people’s wallets. Is the end of the credit card...

Not only has Shoprite won the first round of the app delivery wars, its quietly been offering banking to its customers. How did a grocer evolve int...

The newest frontier in the fight against cyber criminals is identity, Nedbank’s Vickus Meyer tells Stuff Studios editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. As ...

Covid-19 accelerated the way people use digital platforms to do the things we used to do in real life. As people upgraded their tech skills, it was...

Changing consumer behaviour and a lack of storage means people are turning to so-called super apps like Nedbank’s Avo and Moya.app. There apps prov...

Now that our smartphones have become the centre of our lives, the way we pay for things has completely changed. I was in aN:aN

For a time, FedGroup's investment app was the top downloaded app in South Africa. When it launched it was a revolutionary way of investing in bee h...

How did a bullied introverted Pretoria schoolboy become the world’s richest person and arguably humanity’s greatest change agent? Michael Vlismas, ...

After convincing South Africans to be healthier through its Vitality programme, Discovery took this shared-value incentivisation idea to car insura...

Having successfully launched in South Africa, and with an imminent launch in the Philippines, TymeBank is looking for further international expansi...

Co-founder and CEO Katlego Maphai aN:aN

Max Cuvellier’s not-insubstantial day job is head of mobile for development for the GSMA. But that’s not what he’s talking to Stuff Studio’s editor...

In 2015 Disrupt Africa began publishing its annual African Tech Startups Funding Report

Netstock.co is the biggest new thing you’ve never heard of. This innovative South African company...

“If I played you a track of music, could you tell if it was composed by a human or an artificial intelligence,” Tencent Africa CEO Brett Loubser as...

In March 2007 in the most unlikely of places, a new era began for how us humans performed one of our most important activities: making payments. Un...

Moya is often mistakenly compared to WhatsApp, the mega messaging app, when the more apt comparison is super app WeChat. Although its CEO Gour Lent...

When two geeks tried to solve their own frustrations around rolling blackouts, they created a now-indispensable app called aN:aN

As investments lead for Flourish in Africa, Ameya Upadhyay has been helping build African unicorns for a decade. His acumen is as impressive as his...

Arguably the most important step in digital and financial inclusion is getting people online in the first place. The largest provider of aN:aN

Sim Tshabalala is a modern-day Medici. Appearing like a conventional banker in his immaculate suit and tie, he's a deep-thinking man who understand...

With a valuation reportedly of $3bn, Nigeria's Flutterwave is one of the most successful – a...

Fintech app Shyft won a aN:aN

Naked's clever app took the insurance industry by storm when it launched, offering a fully digital way for consumers to insure their cars and homes...

Visa South Africa country manager Aldo Laubscher tells Stuff Studios editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak that despite Covid and its effects, the last two...

Andre de Ruyter is the most important businessman in South Africa today. If the Eskom CEO can’t deal with its debt, its notorious inefficiency, and...

Checker's Sixty60 delivery app was the hands-down winner grocery delivery was of Covid. Even before lockdown, I was a regular, and very happy, user...

Deep insight into the plumbing of banking and no legacy business model enable the latest challenger bank to offer zero fees and other canny innovat...

Chris Anderson runs TED, arguably one of the most interesting companies in the world. It's a global phenomenon, presenting interesting talks on a r...