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Friday, March 14, 2014

South African consumers are driving a mobiletransacting revolution enabled by a slew of innovative home-grown technology companies.

So says Bevan Ducasse, CEO of wiGroup, following the release of the company’s white paper on in-store mobile transacting.

In the paper, wiGroup says for in-store mobile transacting, consumers use their mobile phones for all sorts of transactions, from checking balances, buying airtime and redeeming coupons, through to paying for goods and services and transferring money.