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Online payment service PayPal launched in South Africa on Thursday with local partner First National Bank (FNB). South Africans can now receive funds via the service, whereas before their use was restricted to sending money.

So says Simon Dingle in his post PayPal launches in South Africa where he talks with FNB’s GM for complimentary online services Chris Savides, PayPal representatives Sara Gorman and Oded Zehavi who were in South Africa for the launch.

But this its on Twitter that we hear the juicy gossip that's got me excited:

If Phillip de Wet is right, and FNB has a pan-African or sub-Saharan deal with PayPal for more countries, we may finally see credible person-to-person ePayments in Africa and an end to Google & Paypal leaving cash on the ePayment table.