GFA Daily Digest Thursday, 25 February 2021
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Rwandan mobile payment volumes rise 206% last year
Buoyed by the lockdown, the value of mobile payment volumes in Rwanda increased by 206 percent in 2020 to Rwf 7.177 billion from Rwf2.349 billion in the previous year, statistics from the central bank show. Read more
Statistics show Cape Town as metro with lowest unemployment rate last quarter despite pandemic
Within the last quarter of 2020, the City’s Strategic Business Partners secured R230-million worth of investment, created more than 1200 jobs, and trained 630 people for work. Read more
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Opinion Corner
2021’s silver lining for startups
However, adversity always presents an opportunity and ‘creative destructivism’ is a real thing. Entire industries are being disrupted. This disruption is the fertile soil of which great entrepreneurs are grown. Read more