On TechpointDigest, Victoria Fakiya discusses why ChatGPT can’t replace African creatives, ride-hailing commission fee increase in Tanzania, Kenya’s Pezesha in Uganda, and Telkom’s mobile virtual network operator.
Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) is set to enforce a regulation that caps commission for all ride-hailing companies in the country at 18%. This is because something similar happened in Tanzania a few months ago. Earlier this year, Tanzania’s Land Transport Regulatory Authority (LATRA), which regulates the taxi sector, restricted…
Months after it exited Tanzania for similar regulations, Uber has appealed to the Kenyan supreme court to contest a regulation that will force it to reduce limit its commission rates to 15%.
In August 2022, African tech startups raised $218,000,000, the lowest so far in 2022. Last month, Kenya and South Africa also took significant moves to institute coding as a subject to be taught in schools.