South Africa: Quest for Cashless Society Goes On

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Johannesburg — One major step will be the move from magnetic stripe cards to smart cards housing a memory chip

EXPECTATIONS that electronic banking and plastic cards will ever create a cashless society are about as unrealistic as the fanciful notion that one day we will all work in a paperless office.

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