{"id":16148,"date":"2025-11-26T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-expert-empower-consumers-to-tackle-cybercrime-during-black-friday\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:26","slug":"sa-expert-empower-consumers-to-tackle-cybercrime-during-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-expert-empower-consumers-to-tackle-cybercrime-during-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"SA expert empower consumers to \u00a0tackle cybercrime during Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Some marketing experts in South Africa (SA) say empowering consumers is critical in tackling cybercrime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This as some citizens stress over the advertised upcoming Black Friday bargains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Some studies show that last year alone, online purchases surged by 37%, placing intense pressure on the country&#8217;s payment infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Experts Shaylen Padayachee, &#8220;SA actually has a very robust and advanced payments ecosystem. So, if you look at digital transactions, they&#8217;ve been growing so aggressively year on year because of the payment infrastructure and the inherent trust that that ultimately results in for the consumer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">So, if you look at what we&#8217;re looking at from a forecast perspective for 2026, we&#8217;re looking at a $100 billion in the value of the e-commerce market from a transactional perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16149,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-16148","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA empowering consumers in tackling cybercrime","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20081,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16148\/revisions\/20081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}