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South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs plans to roll out a national digital ID system before year-end, a move that could allow government departments to link their services digitally and improve public access. The government announced the plan on Friday in Pretoria at a media briefing on progress under its medium-term development. South Africa’s identity system remains weak, with many government departments still unable to share and use that data in a synchronised digital manner, often forcing citizens to repeatedly verify their identity across services. The digital ID rollout is anchored by the MyMzansi portal, launched in 2025 as a prototype one-stop platform for government services. According to the Minister of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa, the system is designed to enable other departments, such as transport and basic education, to use a shared identity framework to digitise their services. If implemented effectively, this would allow citizens to access multiple government services without repeatedly verifying their identity across separate systems. The Department of Home Affairs has spent the past year rolling out its digital transformation strategy. Some key milestones include 3.6 million smart ID cards, surpassing its previous annual record by roughly 500,000. The department also cleared a visa backlog of 306,000 applications that had accumulated over a decade. Rolling out digital IDs nationwide remains a logistical challenge in a country where more than 30% of the population lives in rural or remote areas. To address this, Home Affairs plans to deploy mobile offices to service communities with low population density. The department says the use of digital tools such as drones and body cameras at South Africa’s borders increased the detection of illegal crossings during key pilot phases. Digital IDs, combined with the national population register, would allow departments to authenticate citizens for additional services. One planned application is a digital driver’s licence, to reduce the cost of producing physical cards and simplify related processes such as licence renewals and traffic fine payments. The initiative also relies on partnerships with the private sector. Banks already provide Home Affairs services at selected branches and support secure identity verification systems, helping the government extend its reach without building all infrastructure internally. To manage security risks, the department says its strategy includes a verification portal that will enable secure data sharing between government entities to combat fraud, improve service delivery, and support national security. For South Africa, the digital ID rollout aims to create more coordinated, accessible government services. For other African countries, it offers a practical example of how digital identity systems can support cross-department integration and improve service delivery at scale.
Read MoreQuidax, a provisionally licenced Nigerian crypto startup, has discontinued its peer-to-peer (P2P) trading feature five months after introducing the service, according to an email sent to customers seen by TechCabal. The feature allowed users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies directly with verified merchants on Quidax. The decision underscores the tight regulatory path Nigeria’s crypto exchanges face as authorities push to bring a largely informal market under capital markets oversight. Quidax operates under the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP), a closely-monitored sandbox framework fordigital asset operators. Startups admitted into the programme—Quidax and competitor Busha—were expected to become fully crypto-licenced by August 2025 after completing the SEC’s stipulated one-year incubation period. That transition has since stalled, with the regulator pausing the licencing process to reassess its supervisory readiness. Within that environment, P2P trading sits at the edge of regulatory tolerance. In 2024, the SEC raised concerns about P2P crypto markets, citing exchange rate manipulations, opaque transaction flows, and the prevalence of platforms operated by prominent foreign players, such as Bybit and Bitget, which function in a regulatory grey area in Nigeria. Those concerns are rooted in oversight challenges: P2P transactions often migrate into informal channels, making it harder for regulators to monitor activity, protect investors, or detect abuse. Quidax’s P2P offering was designed as a response to those concerns. Rather than allowing trades to spill off-platform, the exchange sought to formalise P2P transactions within a controlled environment. Only verified users could become merchants, and eligibility required a fully registered account, Level-3 know-your-customer verification, two-factor authentication, and at least 7 days of active participation before applying through the platform. Applications were reviewed by Quidax, with approved merchants granted special badges to distinguish them within the marketplace. Despite those safeguards, Quidax said the decision to discontinue P2P trading was strategic. In a notice to customers, the company said most users preferred faster trading options, such as instant swaps and order-book trading, and that streamlining its services would allow it to focus on features with higher demand. Following the P2P shutdown by Quidax, its marketplace, ads, chats, and escrow services will be disabled, while other services will continue to operate normally. Since the SEC maintains close oversight of provisionally licenced startups, Quidax’s decision to discontinue P2P trading is also a direct signal of what the regulator is currently ready and well-equipped to oversee and what it cannot. If cryptocurrencies are often described as a Wild West industry, P2P markets turn up the flame on those risks, intensifying concerns around informal settlement, limited visibility, and investor protection. While the regulator is likely keen to gain deeper insight into P2P markets as rules evolve, the immediate focus has been on activities that fit more neatly within established capital-market structures. Nigeria’s regulatory posture for cryptocurrencies has become clearer in recent months. On January 16, the SEC raised minimum capital requirements for capital market operators, including virtual asset service providers. Under the Investment and Securities Act (2025), digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, are now regulated as securities, placing them firmly under the SEC’s oversight and within Nigeria’s capital markets framework. While the SEC did not explicitly outline requirements for P2P platforms in its latest capital thresholds, the classification regime offers guidance. A P2P trading platform operating as a standalone service could be treated as a Digital Assets Intermediary (DAI), providing broking, routing, or facilitation services between users, such as order routing, matchmaking, or agency-based P2P brokerage, with a new minimum capital requirement of ₦500 million ($352,000). Alternatively, platforms that operate a digital asset environment or protocol without running a full exchange stack may fall under Digital Asset Platform Operators (DAPOs), which carry the same ₦500 million ($352,000) threshold. Where providers stack services—particularly by combining P2P trading with full exchange functionality, custody, or escrow services—the regulatory bar rises further, potentially requiring a higher capital requirement. The SEC has yet to issue a dedicated regulatory framework for virtual assets in Nigeria, leaving operators to interpret how far innovation can extend before it runs ahead of regulatory clarity. Quidax also announced plans to delist 35 crypto tokens from its platform, including meme coins such as $TRUMP and Book of Meme; gaming-focused tokens like Axie Infinity; Sam Altman-backed Worldcoin; and World Liberty Financial ($WLFI), a 2024-launched stablecoin associated with Zachary Folkman, Chase Herro, Alex Witkoff, Zach Witkoff, and members of the Trump family.
Read MoreAndela, the global engineering talent outsourcing unicorn, has acquired Woven, a human-powered technical assessment company that simulates real engineering work, for an undisclosed amount. As companies go from experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) to deploying it at scale, the company says demand is rising for distinct AI-native engineers who create AI components such as Large Language Model (LLM) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, connect models and tools into autonomous workflows, and ensure AI systems run reliably while managing governance and risk. With Woven’s technology, Andela, which boasts over 150,000 technology professionals in its global marketplace, aims to better assess and match engineers to each of these roles. “To power the AI ecosystem at scale, the world needs AI-native, enterprise-ready engineering talent en masse. Andela plus Woven equals the best technical assessment engine in the world to ensure AI fluency and real-world job success,” said Carrol Chang, CEO of Andela. The acquisition positions Andela to deploy its strong talent pool against the engineers best equipped to turn advanced AI models into dependable, real-world solutions, sharpening the company’s edge in the AI talent race As part of the deal, Woven’s founder and CEO, Wes Winham Winler, will join Andela to lead the development of next-generation assessments focused on AI-assisted software development and AI system creation. “Andela already had a world-class industry reputation, talent network, and upskilling DNA,” Winler said. “Together, we’re building the most accurate and scalable way to measure real-world engineering performance in the AI era.” Get The Best African Tech Newsletters In Your Inbox Select your country Nigeria Ghana Kenya South Africa Egypt Morocco Tunisia Algeria Libya Sudan Ethiopia Somalia Djibouti Eritrea Uganda Tanzania Rwanda Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Central African Republic Chad Cameroon Gabon Equatorial Guinea São Tomé and Príncipe Angola Zambia Zimbabwe Botswana Namibia Lesotho Eswatini Mozambique Madagascar Mauritius Seychelles Comoros Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau Senegal The Gambia Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Côte d’Ivoire Burkina Faso Mali Niger Benin Togo Other Select your gender Male Female Others TC Daily TC Events TC Scoop Subscribe Andela will integrate Woven’s library of real-world scenarios and AI-enabled evaluation capabilities. This technology will be built on Qualified, another assessment platform that the unicorn acquired in 2023, creating what the company describes as a unified foundation for AI-powered engineering assessments. Founded in Nigeria in 2014, Andela started as a company focused on training and connecting software developers from Africa to global technology companies. Over the past decade, it has evolved into one of the world’s largest marketplaces for technical talent. The company says its acquisition of Woven accelerates its ambition to become an AI-native talent platform that reliably assesses an engineer’s ability to succeed in real jobs. “With Woven, Andela is leapfrogging the development of world-class assessments for both AI fluency and engineering fundamentals,” said Barun Singh, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Andela.
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