South Africa
11 verified resources for building in South Africa.
Cassava Technologies AI Factory
Pan-African NVIDIA Cloud Partner deploying GPU-as-a-service and AI-as-a-service from data centers across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco, having procured 12,000 NVIDIA GPUs with the first cluster operational in Cape Town. It offers localized model support via its CAIMEx multi-model exchange.
InkubaLM
InkubaLM-0.4B is a 400M-parameter open-weights small language model built from scratch by Lelapa AI for five low-resource African languages (isiZulu, Yoruba, Swahili, isiXhosa, Hausa, plus English/French), using a LLaMA-style architecture trained on 2.4B tokens.
Ozow
Ozow, formerly i-Pay, is a South African instant smart EFT and open-banking payment provider that lets customers pay directly from their bank account. Its API generates payment links and exposes transaction-status endpoints such as GetTransaction and GetTransactionByReference on api.ozow.com.
PayFast MCP
A TypeScript MCP server (npm @theyahia/payfast-mcp) wrapping the South African PayFast payment gateway with 8 tools covering payments and subscriptions. Part of theYahia's Emerging Markets MCP collection.
PuoBERTa
PuoBERTa is a RoBERTa-based masked language model purpose-built for Setswana, trained on the PuoData corpus by the Data Science for Social Impact group. It ships with example scripts for fill-mask, news classification, NER and POS tagging via HuggingFace Transformers.
Stitch
South African open-banking and pay-by-bank platform exposing a GraphQL API for Pay By Bank, Card, DebiCheck, Manual EFT, Capitec Pay and disbursements, with an in-browser Stitch IDE for building queries. Distinctive for its GraphQL-first developer experience.
Vulavula
Vulavula is Lelapa AI's API platform for speech-to-text transcription and machine translation across South African and African languages (isiZulu, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, English, Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, French), purpose-built for telco and financial-services contact centres.
Yoco
South African card-payments provider offering a developer hub with online payment APIs, SDKs, an API explorer, ecommerce plugins (WooCommerce, Wix, Shopify) and an MCP server for AI integrations. Docs hosted on a Fern-powered developer hub.
Yoco MCP
A TypeScript MCP server (npm @theyahia/yoco-mcp) wrapping the South African Yoco payment gateway and card-machine APIs with 8 tools. Part of theYahia's Emerging Markets MCP collection.
south-african-id-validator
TypeScript-native validator for 13-digit South African ID numbers that checks the Luhn checksum and extracts date of birth, gender and citizenship status. Zero runtime dependencies, runs on Node, Bun, Deno and browsers.
za-id-number
Python library to validate and parse South African (RSA/ZA) identity numbers using the Luhn check digit, breaking the number into birth date, gender and citizenship components. Installable with pip install za-id-number.