South Africa

While eating duck breast with strawberries on a bed of bulgur wheat laced with raspberry jus I decided yesterday that Cannes is not crap. Yesterday was a particularly un-crap day. Last night at the Outdoor, Mobile, Innovation and Media ceremony agencies won things, countries won things and, yes, Dumb Ways ...

People love to laugh at themselves, especially at times when the country they live in seems at odds with itself. You just have to look at stand-up comedy and satirical cartoons in a country like South Africa to see that. But social media has provided a new medium for this, ...

South Africa is now putting the finishing touches on its first comprehensive data protection laws, aligned closely with those currently under debate in Europe.The proposed European laws give online consumers the right to withhold personal information while using websites -- which presents a challenge to the businesses who have based ...

When news broke that tech billionaire Mark Shuttleworth was looking to take on the South African Reserve Bank over its system of exchange controls, reactions were mixed. Some lauded his actions, others were not so sure. They wondered why a man who had emigrated from the country, and been labelled ...

A group of grade 11 learners at Sinenjongo High School in Cape Town, South Africa has written four letters to major telecom operators Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and 8ta to address the need for free access to Wikipedia via their mobile phones. This comes after the Wikipedia Zero initiative promoted ...

If you want to see real innovation, you should check out Africa. That's the message Stuff South Africa publisher and editor Toby Shapshak took to the TED Global stage and it's one that appears to have been incredibly well received by the audience.Shapshak apparently had the crowd in his ...

Of the hundreds of channels from your cable or satellite provider, how many do you actually watch?I watch 21. On an exam, that would be a definitive fail. Variety is used to mask overpricing, and we the consumers are none the wiser.In a world where most things are DIY, ...

The bid by internet billionaire Mark Shuttleworth to reclaim some R250-million (US$24.5-million) from the South African Reserve Bank and have its system of exchange controls declared unconstitutional could ruin the country's economy.At least, that's the message the central bank has put forward in response to the Canonical CEO and ...

This is pretty interesting. The publishers of Velocity, a platform designed to provide South African and Australian comic book artists and writers a place to show off their creativity have been invited to present a panel at ComiCon in San Diego and they're using crowdfunding to get there.The team ...

Ubuntu founder and South African-born tech billionaire Mark Shuttleworth is set to take the South African government to court in a bid to have the country's exchange control system declared unconstitutional.Shuttleworth also wants the Reserve Bank to pay back some R250-million (US$24.5-million) that he had to set aside to ...