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Friday, 16 October 2015

How using mobile money to pay for public services could help South Africa tackle corruption


From htxt.africa –

“If South Africa is to progress towards a more streamlined, simple and less corrupt system for citizens to pay for public services, government needs to seriously consider going digital with mobile money, mobile experts say.

In an interview with htxt.africa, Imdad Aslam, interim CEO of Pakistani small business finance organisation Karandaaz said any country, like South Africa, with a large number of its population living just below the poverty line, cannot afford to ignore the topic of digitised payments for all citizens.”

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