by Giuliana Schoeman | May 7, 2026 | Digital Identity In South Africa
By Shaun Strydom, CEO, Contactable The real shift coming isn’t digital identity wallets — it’s interoperability. The moment one institution’s verification can be trusted by another, without starting again. South African businesses didn’t make a mistake when they built...
by Giuliana Schoeman | Mar 26, 2026 | Digital Identity In South Africa
We rarely think of identity as infrastructure. It sits in the compliance budget, gets reviewed at audit time, and seldom makes the growth agenda. But actually, identity underpins every digital interaction, customer relationship, and product decision. In most...
by Giuliana Schoeman | Feb 13, 2026 | Digital Identity In South Africa, RICA, Uncategorized
By Shaun Strydom, CEO of Contactable For years, the digital identity debate assumed banks would drive adoption. They have regulatory depth, compliance maturity and long-standing customer trust. The evidence now points elsewhere. In fact, the organisations best...
by Giuliana Schoeman | Jan 15, 2026 | Digital Identity In South Africa
From ‘Fantasy’ to Reality: The State of RICA Today If South Africa’s SIM registration story played out the way we imagine it should, this would be the moment we cut to sunshine, trust, and seamless onboarding. But that’s not our reality. RICA — once seen...
by Giuliana Schoeman | Dec 4, 2025 | Biometric Identity Proofing & Orchestration, Digital Identity In South Africa
While everyone was fixated on AI hype, South Africa quietly made its biggest leap in digital identity and payments in more than a decade. This was not a set of isolated government upgrades. It was the first layer of a national digital foundation that will reshape how...
