African Tech Roundup

Uber Drivers In South Africa Are Now Considered Employees Of The Ride-hailing Service

17 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

According to a ruling made by South Africa's Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), an employer-employee relationship does, in...

Baba Zoumanigui reflects on his fruitful executive career at IBM

13 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this chat with Baba Zoumanigui, IBM's General Manager for French Speaking Africa, he shares insights drawn from his international IT career. Baba ...

Rebecca Enonchong on #BringBackOurInternet and why she's fed up with African foreign aid

07 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rebecca Enonchong is an award-winning Cameroonian-born technology entrepreneur who is affectionately known as the "Queen of African Tech". Rebecca is ...

Cisco's Shaun Kirby on why the global mobility industry is ripe for disruption

06 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Shaun Kirby oversees product development for Cisco's automotive and connected car business unit. He is responsible for evangelising and acting on tren...

Wolf Stinnes on Dimension Data's cutting-edge top-tier sport and health IoT solutions

06 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wolf Stinnes is smart buildings and digital cities solutions architect at Dimension Data. In this conversation, he talks about some clever top tier sp...

Naspers CEO Bob Van Dijk Accused Of Blowing Roughly $25.6 Billion Of Shareholder Value

30 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's no secret, Africa's largest tech company by market cap, Naspers, has been buckling under the pressure to perform for some years now. The fact is...

Rockwell Automation's John Lewis doesn't buy that factory automation is destroying livlihoods

26 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

John Lewis is the Director Business Partnering at Rockwell Automation. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, taped at the Internet of Things World ...

Malawi Secures $72.4 Million Credit Line From The World Bank To Advance National Digitisation

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Sub-Saharan Africa heads of the likes of Huawei, Oracle, Cisco, IBM and perhaps even Amazon, Facebook and Google, have no doubt already booked fir...

Anton Jooste outlines what's at stake if Africa doesn't gear up for the new digital economy

16 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Anton Jooste is Dimension Data’s Global Director for the Internet of Things. In this chat, he contextualises the promise of IoT for African enterpri...

AppDynamics' Prathap Dendi unpacks the life-changing potential of IoT for the world's poorest

14 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Prathap Dendi is an engineer-turned startup executive with over 15 years of experience in technology leadership positions in companies ranging from st...

Cisco Africa's David Meads is adamant that technology should benefit the average African citizen

14 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

David Meads has lead Cisco’s Operations across Africa since 2012 and is responsible for the company’s go-to-market strategy across the continent a...

Exclusive Africa-focussed Insights From IoT World Forum 2017

14 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week's African Tech Round-up is dedicated to sharing insights gleaned from the recent Internet of Things World Forum (2017IoTWF)hosted in London....

The Expat Founder Debate & A Busload Of Accidental Hot Takes feat. Mark Kaigwa

31 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Kenya's finest digital-head, Mark Kaigwa, joins Musa Kalenga and Andile Masuku on this week's African Tech Round-up for two glorious hours of straight...

Etop Ikpe talks about life after the successful close of a $5M Series A for Cars45.com

29 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Etop Ikpe and his team at the Nigerian vehicle marketplace, Cars45.com, are no doubt feeling great following the successful close of the company's $5 ...

Nigeria's Cars45.com Riding High After Landing $5 Million Investment

28 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Etop Ikpe and his team at the Nigerian vehicle marketplace, Cars45.com, are no doubt feeling great following the successful close of the company's $5 ...

Scientists Successfully Remove HIV Virus From Mouse Cells Using CRISPR

15 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists have found a way to remove the HIV virus from the DNA in mouse cells using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. According to the journal, Molecular Ther...

Monica Brand Engel of Quona Capital on why impact investment gets a bad rap

25 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Monica Brand Engel is a Peruvian American investor and entrepreneur who has been involved with a number of investment vehicles and products aimed at b...

Allard Luchsinger of Velocity Capital Private Equity talks making sound bets on African startups

18 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Allard Luchsinger is the Director for Private Equity at the Dutch VC firm Velocity Capital Private Equity. Allard supports all of Velocity’s portfo...

Stephen Ozoigbo of the African Technology Foundation on plugging startup pipeline gaps

16 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Andile catches up with Stephen Ozoigbo at the inaugural Enterprise Africa Summit that was recently hosted by the British Council in Accra, Ghana. Oz...

Talking Ladders and Trampolines With Musa Kalenga

06 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’re still in celebration mode for crossing 100 weekly podcasts in a row. And so as promised, this week, we’re sharing more awesomeness from that...

Jacques de Vos of Mezzanine Ware on harnessing IoT to improve business efficiencies

03 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jacques de Vos is the MD of the Vodacom IoT subsidiary, Mezzanine Ware. Mezzanine deploys mobile (GSM) enabled solutions and helps clients (primaril...

The Big 100: State of the Startup LIVE

29 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This is our 100th episode! To everyone who's ever listened in to the show, interacted with us via social media, recommended the podcast to other peopl...

Talking Access To Higher Education With Bola Lawal Of ScholarX

22 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's been barely a week since we hosted the African Tech Round-up LIVE: State of the Startup event in Johannesburg, and believe it or not, next week w...

The Tech Minute 17-03-2017

17 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Tech Minute 17-03-2017 by African Tech Roundup

Etisalat Nigeria's Creditors Call In Massive Debt + Simon Dingle On Bitcoin And Blockchain Tech

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Mobile telcos on the continent are certainly having a rough time of it on the continent. In the same week that MTN South Africa CEO, Mteto Nyati, anno...

The Tech Minute 10-03-2017

10 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this Tech Minute, Brian Lupiya shares the latest on Etisalat Nigeria's $1.72 billion credit dispute with a consortium of banks including Guaranty ...

The Tech Minute 08-03-2017

08 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Oops... Amazon is still recovering from their embarrassing human error that caused a massive outage of their Simple Storage Service, leading to signif...

Pule Taukobong of CRE Venture Capital on grooming African founders for success

08 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Pule Taukobong is a Founding Partner at CRE Venture Capital (CRE VC), a seed-focussed fund which invests in technology-enabled startup companies in Su...

Nokia's New Dumbphone Dominates Headlines + The Kalenga Conundrum

06 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Whatever you think of Nokia's re-introduction of the legendary 3310 device, you've got to hand it to HMD Global for completely owning Mobile World Con...

The Tech Minute 02-03-2017

02 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this Tech Minute-- media reports have surfaced alleging SAP South Africa Managing Director Lawrence Kandaswami's involvement in a kickback scandal ...

Katlego Maphai of Yoco on innovating within South Africa's mobile payments scene

02 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Katlego Maphai is the co-founder and CEO of the South African mobile payments startup, Yoco.   Yoco launched out of beta in October 2015 and the ven...

The Tech Minute 22-02-2017

22 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this Tech Minute, Brian Lupiya unpacks how Kenyan banks have teamed up to take on the disruptive threat posed by M-Pesa, and touches on two other l...

Business Angels, Blackberry and Tech Bubbles

21 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We're often asked what informs our opinionated take on the biggest tech and innovation headlines each week. Our secret is having five to ten times as ...

Tomi Davies of ABAN on Africa becoming a serious tech investment destination

21 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While at the World Business Angels Investment Forum 2017, Chris Campbell, co-founder of both the African Business Angels Network (ABAN) and the South ...

The Tech Minute 15-02-2017

15 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In the same week that Neotel officially became part of Liquid Telecom (a subsidiary of the Econet Group), Anglophone Cameroon clocked a month of going...

Alison Treadaway of Striata on the merits of South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act

14 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Alison Treadaway is a director and shareholder of the South African eBilling and eMarketing software and services company, Striata. In this chat, Alis...

The South African Reserve Bank Is Warming Up To Blockchain Technology

14 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The continent's two most prominent central banks-- the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), have decidedly differe...

The Tech Minute 08-02-2017

08 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this Tech Minute, Brian Lupiya gives the lowdown on an impressive large-scale green project in Cape Town, South Africa and touches on two other lea...

Lionel Chmilewsky of Cambridge Broadband Networks is bullish on multipoint microwave tech

06 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lionel Chmilewsky is the CEO of Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL), a UK-based, privately-held multipoint microwave tech firm which has an impressive...

Internet Blackout Persists In Anglophone Cameroon

06 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon are probably still celebrating their win against The Pharaohs of Egypt in the AFCON final. How ironic that roughly 2...

The Tech Minute 01-02-2017

01 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Got a minute? This brisk, energetic podcast presented by Brian Lupiya delivers the top three digital, tech and innovation stories featured in the late...

Kwesé TV Poised To Give DStv A Haircut

30 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Africa's 'high-end' VOD scene is hotting up, and for home-grown heavies, ShowMax and Kwesé, the race to achieving critical mass is on. ShowMax is on...

The Tech Minute 24-01-2017

24 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Got a minute? This brisk, energetic podcast presented by Brian Lupiya delivers the top three digital, tech and innovation stories featured in the late...

Mastercard Launches 2KUZE Agtech Marketplace For Farmers In East Africa

23 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Several well-respected voices we featured on the show last year predicted that we would see some major agtech plays happen in 2017. Sure enough, Maste...

Fintech News Dominates Holiday Headlines + Insights From CES 2017

18 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The team at the African Tech Round-up has returned from the Festive break, and so we’re officially back to our normal programming. At the tail-end...

Discussing Inclusive Value Chains With Simon Carpenter of SAP Africa

09 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We are one week away from returning to our regular coverage of the week’s biggest digital, tech and innovation headlines, once the team at the Afric...

Unpacking Africa's Solar Power Revolution With Chad Larson Of M-KOPA Solar

30 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode of the African Tech Round-up features a snippet from Andile Masuku's full-length sit-down with Chad Larson-- one of the three foun...

Talking Venture Capital With Eline Blaauboer of TBL Mirror Fund and Safaricom Spark Venture Fund

23 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s African Tech Conversations sneak-peek is drawn from an in-depth chat Andile Masuku had with Eline Blaauboer, Managing Partner at both TB...

Olivier Laouchez Of TRACE on evolving in the digital media space

20 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Olivier Laouchez, who hails from Martinique (French West Indies), is the charismatic co-founder and CEO of Trace, one of the world's leading urban ent...

Ringing In The Festive Season With Dr Solomon Assefa of IBM

15 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The team at the African Tech Round-up is on break, but while we’re away over the next four weeks, the show will go on! In place of our regular pro...

Brett Parker of SAP Africa on helping large enterprise clients maintain their competitive edge

08 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Brett Parker is the Managing Director of SAP Africa. In this chat with Andile Masuku, he reveals some of the most critical strategic decisions made by...

Dr Chakib Bouhdary of SAP clears up commonly held misconceptions regarding digital transformation

08 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Moroccan-born Dr Chakib Bouhdary is SAP’s global Digital Transformation Officer. In this chat with Andile Masuku, he shares some of the most common ...

Zebra Cabs Raises $21.6 Million To Take On Uber And Taxify In South Africa

06 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

SA Taxi-owned Zebra Cabs has raised just over $21.6 million from Futuregrowth Asset Management to expand their owner-driver scheme in Johannesburg, an...

Dr Vukosi Marivate of South Africa’s CSIR on the importance of data security regulation

02 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This is a lively chat Andile Masuku had with Dr Vukosi Marivate, a Data Scientist and Senior Researcher at South Africa’s Council for Scientific and...

Senegal Launches A New Electronic Currency

29 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Senegal is now the second African country after Tunisia to adopt an electronic currency. eCFA is equivalent in value to the country’s physical tende...

Kenyan Agritech Startup WeFarm Secures $1.6 Million In Funding

21 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How much of an over-achiever is Elon Musk fixing to become, though? In the last week, he’s added providing global internet coverage via a massive sa...

Vodacom South Africa To Launch An SVOD Platform Called Vodacom On Demand

15 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Trace TV is fixing to launch arguably the most hotly anticipated SVOD offering of the year, Trace Play. Their ambitious roll-out will involve making T...

Jason Njoku on iROKO exploiting traditional media plays on the way to a digital-led future

12 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Njoku is the inimitable Nigerian founder and CEO of the internet and entertainment group, iROKO. In this chat with Andile Masuku, Jason talks ab...

Ntambwe Harlem Mufoncol of Baziks Pulse talks taking on music streaming in the DRC

12 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ntambwe Harlem Mufoncol, one of the co-founders of Baziks Pulse— a neat music streaming platform from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this ...

Highlights From DISCOP Johannesburg and Digital Lab Africa (featuring Jason Njoku of iROKO)

07 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Andile Masuku and Brian Lupiya spent three days last week at DISCOP Johannesburg— Africa’s biggest multi-screen, multi-platform marketplace, asses...

The Kenya Revenue Authority Says Uber Will Not Be Subject To Value-Added Tax

31 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s African Tech Round-up, we ask the question, “Should Uber’s wings be clipped before they change the world as we know it?” Lawma...

80: Kenya Commercial Bank Gets Hacked?

25 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

So, Episode 80 of the African Tech Round-up, aka the episode that nearly never happened, is finally out. In an interview Andile Masuku just taped fo...

Rwanda Launches World's First Drone Delivery Service

17 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Rwanda has helped Africa beat the rest of the world to rolling out a commercial drone delivery service. The land of a thousand hills has partnered w...

Julian von Plato on how PockitTV & Stream.Digital are pushing short-form digital content

14 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Digital video content creator, streaming evangelist and co-founder of Pockitttv, Julian von Plato joins Andile Masuku to chat about VOD trends and the...

Tecno Plans To Start Manufacturing Mobile Devices In Nigeria

10 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s African Tech Round-up episode is jam-packed. Digital video content creator, streaming evangelist and co-founder of Pockitttv, Julian von...

The Co-Founders of Airbuy on promoting financial inclusion

05 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Andile Masuku chats with the four co-founders of a promising South African start-up called Airbuy— a business which plans to help people convert air...

MTN Group Accused Of Sneaking Nearly $14 Billion Out Of Nigeria

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

There’s blood in the water. Nigerian lawmakers are flexing their might with a confidence rarely seen in decades past— at least as far as taking la...

Kenyan Solar Company D.Light Lands $22.5 Million To Fund Growth

26 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In a week which saw Yahoo announce that it had suffered the worst cyber-breach in history, and all three of Egypt’s incumbent mobile telcos opting n...

Barclays Africa's Blockchain Transaction A World First

19 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a busy week for the continent’s fintech scene. The past week saw MTN South Africa announce that it would be discontinuing its mobile m...

Ernesto Spruyt of Tunga.io on plugging the world into African coding talent

18 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ernesto Spruyt is the founder of https://tunga.io, an online market network that provides international clients access to African coding talent. He al...

Ismael Rachdaoui on how nextwi is leveraging WiFi technology in innovative ways

15 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ismael Rachdaoui is the young, Moroccan founder of nextwi, a marketing platform that leverages Wi-Fi technology to help small and large business owner...

Brian Ondari of AirKlip on building the perfect personal assistant for varsity students

15 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Ondari is both the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer at AirKlip, a promising Kenyan startup that aims to become every university student’...

Harry Hare of DEMO Africa on unearthing promising founding talent

15 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Harry Hare is the founder and publisher of CIO East Africa, an ICT information platform that has a monthly print publication (CIO East Africa), an onl...

Afrimarket Lands €10 Million To Deploy E-commerce Platform Across Francophone Africa

12 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The French e-commerce startup, Afrimarket, has raised €10 million from the Global Innovation Fund and the private sector arm of the French Developme...

Lexi Novitske of Singularity Investments believes the world's next unicorn will be African

07 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Lexi Novitske is the Principal Investment Officer for Africa at Singularity Investments. Lexi is based in Lagos and has interesting insights on pickin...

Mark Zuckerberg Goes On A Charm Offensive In Nigeria And Kenya

05 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Zuckerberg’s much-publicised trip to the continent spawned dozens of think-pieces in the blogosphere this past week. Many pundits clearly view...

Angel Investor Farouk Jivani on adopting a hands-on approach to investing in early-stage startups

04 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Farouk Jivani is a business consultant-turned angel investor who has invested in a couple of Kenyan startups-- one of them being the music downloads p...

Tsholo Mogotsi on the City of Joburg's smart-city aspirations

04 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Tsholo Mogotsi in the Director for Economic Development Facilitation at the City of Joburg. In this chat with Andile Masuku Tsholo talks about the Cit...

Amrote Abdella on Microsoft's efforts to remain relevant in the face of disruption

30 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Amrote Abdella is the Director for Venture Capital & Start-ups and Africa Initiatives (Microsoft 4Afrika) at Microsoft. In this chat with Andile Masu...

Stephen Ozoigbo talks leaving investment banking to promote African innovation

30 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Ozoigbo is the CEO of the African Technology Foundation and the Managing Partner of the US State Department-backed Lions @frica initiative. I...

Naspers Wilting In The Heat + DEMO Africa 2016 Highlights

29 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The gravy train may well be over at Africa’s largest tech company (by market value)— Naspers. Naspers CEO, Koos Bekker, told investors late last ...

Econet Wireless Set To Roll Out Shine's Ad Blocking Service

22 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Econet Wireless has recently announced that all ±40 million of their subscribers in Africa will benefit from Shine’s ad blocking service— startin...

Not-so-little Trademark Faux Pas Leaves Safaricom and Craft Silicon Red-faced

15 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Safaricom and Craft Silicon both took an “L” this past week. As it turns out, they neglected to trademark the Little Cabs brand name before launc...

Babusi Nyoni Of M&C SAATCHI Abel on the rise of AI-deployment

14 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Babusi Nyoni is a Cape town-based Zimbabwean digital all-rounder. Babusi is the Digital Creative Group Head at South Africa’s #1 ranked through-the-...

MTN Group Reports Losses In Mid-Year Results For 2016

08 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

MTN Group’s warning that their interim financial results for the period ending June 30th 2016 would be unpleasant did a lot to absorb the shock when...

Kinnevik's Half-Year Financial Report Sheds Light On Their Investment In Nigeria's Konga

01 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Who knew that a little quarterly update by a publicly-traded Swedish investment firm could get Nigeria’s e-commerce fraternity all worked up? Not we...

Telkom South Africa In The Lead With Game Changing Mobile Packages

25 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Data costs need to come down significantly if Africa is ever going to realise the dream of making access to the internet available to every single per...

Jaco Van Zyl Of PulseIt on navigating the challenges of the the online voucher business

18 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Jaco Van Zyl is the co-founder and MD of the South African startup, PulseIt— a company which is looking to give online voucher firms like Voucherclo...

Codeacademy Receives $30 Million Investment Lead By Naspers Ventures

18 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no doubt that online education is a hot ticket at the moment. While the folks at Andela are probably still celebrating landing $24 million ...

Will Facebook's OpenCellular Crush BRCK?

11 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, the global digital behemoth that is Facebook announced that they’ll be rolling out the OpenCellular system worldwide. OpenCellular is sai...

African Spirit American Spin

04 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the 4th of July, and in honour of the fact that our biggest audience outside of Africa is based in the USA, this week’s African Tech Round-up...

Kenya's Buni.tv Acquired by Trace TV

27 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

One of the more surprising things that came out of a recent conversation Andile Masuku had with BT’s Managing Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Olive...

Uber Domination

20 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the considerable push-back Uber has experienced in certain African markets, the firm’s march towards utter and complete world domination con...

Charles Murray of ttrumpet on the ultra-competitive world of lifestyle apps

13 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wonder what it might be like to run a startup that’s owned by a successful tech company, backed by one of Africa’s wealthiest entrepreneurs? ...

Is MTN Nigeria's Nightmare Over? (feat. Charles Murray)

13 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

On Friday, June 10th 2016 MTN’s stock price on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange jumped by 20%. This happened in the wake of the news that the firm’...

Naspers Now Worth Over ZAR 1 Trillion

06 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

If there were a race to being Africa’s largest media and internet company, out of fairness to other firms in the running, Naspers would probably be ...

Ghana's Police Threaten Social Media Blackout

30 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Turns out Ghana’s top cop— Inspector General of Police John Kudalor thinks that blocking social media access across the country might be necessary...

Brian Anderson unpacks FIS Africa online stokvel (savings club) solution

23 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Anderson is the Head of Sales and Business Development at Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), a NYSE-listed firm specialising in banki...

Uber Driver Partners Attacked In Johannesburg (feat. Brian Anderson)

23 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Late last week a violent attack on two Uber partner vehicles in the Sandton Central Business District led to the injury of three police officers who a...

Vodacom Admits That M-Pesa Roll-out In South Africa Flopped (feat. Dominique Collett)

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Vodacom is finally pulling the plug on their disastrous six-year attempt to roll out M-Pesa in South Africa. (The service will be shut down on June 30...