Settling up: The state of digital payments in South Africa

Daily Maverick | 26.10.2026 05:06
At a gathering of international clients of BPC, a payment processing company, the tension was palpable between conference attendees who can afford to buy their own lunch – but meals will be catered – and the uninvited people who need food, clothes, shelter and access to basic amenities and whose problems the conference attendees are there to solve.