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Physical retail is as important as ever, which means that in-person payments continue to play a pivotal role in South Africa’s retail landscape.

No doubt crypto will continue to shake up the traditional financial system in innovative ways in 2025.

In 2025, South Africa finds itself at the crossroads of a digital revolution. Rapid advancements in technology and shifting consumer expectations are creating opportunities to reshape the nation’s economic future.

South Africa’s ecommerce market is on fire, and there’s no sign of it cooling down.

The general movement of retail and payments has always been towards convenience.

South Africa has a thriving digital payments ecosystem, with merchants (66%) and customers (59%) showing a strong preference for card payments, laying a strong foundation for continued expansion.

Peach Payments has built an AI avatar to help its merchants unpack the findings of the Online Retail in South Africa 2025 report, released by World Wide Worx last week.

New Payfast research shows small businesses increasingly rely on digital payments to improve efficiency.

South Africa’s Easter trading period showed retailers that consumers are still spending, but not in the same way as before.