As of 2021, Cape Town was the city with the largest number of tech start-ups in South Africa. As of that year, the town held almost ** percent of the operating tech start-ups in the country, counting up to *** startups. Johannesburg followed closely with *** different tech start-ups. On the other hand, Durban had only ***** tech start-ups.
According to the source startups included here are startups launched between 2002 and 2021. Furthermore, they add that they do not claim to have identified all the tech startups that existed in the country as some may have "slipped through the net".
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