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Will cash finally meet its match?

With hard cash accounting for most of the total value of transactions, South Africa remains a predominantly cash-based economy.

However, the proportion of cash versus digital currency is shrinking – slowly, but nonetheless surely. And, with more territories across the world edging closer to the establishment of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), it appears that the mainstream adoption of digital currency

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