What’s happened this Week:

• Amazon will officially launch in South Africa in 2024

• Andela launches a new platform for global hiring

• and more!

South Africa’s Competition Commission will investigate digital platforms like Meta and Google for unfairly competing with news publishers by using their content to generate ad revenue.

The Commission will be investigating among other things market features that may distort competition for advertising revenue between news media organisations and digital platforms, and whether these are affected by imbalances in bargaining power.

In The News This Week:

Andela Launches Integrated, End-to-End Platform to Bolster Global Remote Tech Hiring

Andela, the world’s largest private marketplace for technical talent has announced the Andela Talent Cloud, an integrated, end-to-end platform to match global technologists with companies seeking to bolster capacity and skill sets.

Ghana EV Startup Kofa Signs Partnership With TAILG Group To Develop “Jidi” Electric Motorcycle

TAILG Group has signed a formal cooperation with Kofa, a Ghanaian company focusing on battery swap networks, to jointly develop a battery swap electric motorcycle called Jidi.

Amazon Officially Launching Its Services In South Africa in 2024

Amazon has announced that it will launch Amazon.co.za in 2024. The company will be providing South African-based sellers the ability to reach customers across the country starting next year.

In the rest of the news:

• MVola Partners With MFS Africa To Facilitate Remittances to Madagascar

• Kuramo Capital To Invest $150 Million in Women-Led Startups in Africa

• Electric Vehicle Sales Grew By 127% In South Africa In 2022

• Safaricom Completes Full Acquision Of M-Mesa From Vodafone

• Lipa Later Group Partners With Mastercard To Promote “Buy Now Pay Later” for Consumers

Tech Events In Ghana

We’re putting together events that will be happening later in Ghana this year. You can check them out here:

Africa Ecosystem Funding Activity

• SA digital identity startup iiDENTIFii expands to Zambia with Zanaco partnership - Disrupt Africa

• Nigerian crypto startup Coinazer expands to Brazil, clocks 5k customers - Disrupt Africa

Labari Media Podcast

In our latest episode, we talked to Aphua Larbi. She’s a producer and writer and has worked on multiple projects including the Global Citizen event which took place in Accra in 2022.

We brought Aphua on the show to talk about Ghanaian media, experiences with shooting on set in Ghana, residual payments, and online streaming.