In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Pravin Gordhan has been fired, and South Africa’s not amused
Pravin Gordhan is no longer the finance minister of South Africa. After a late night meeting with the ANC’s top five in Pretoria, President…
Viral video proves there are still leopards around Cape Town [update]
Update, 30 March: CapeNature this week announced that the social media-famous leopard was “translocated to [a] natural environment”. “A leopard that was recently seen…
Periscope live streams will now feature YouTube-like ads
After news broke this week that Twitter is mulling a possible paid tier of TweetDeck, the company this week announced a new advertising format…
Nah fam: South Africans aren’t too happy with the Samsung Galaxy S8’s price
South Africans really don’t like the price of the Samsung Galaxy S8. The Korean company’s latest phone was outed today, sporting an infinity screen,…
#UncleKathy: South Africa pays tribute to struggle giant Ahmed Kathrada
Ahmed Kathrada, known as one of Nelson Mandela’s closest allies and a defiant anti-apartheid activist, has died aged 87. The news broke on Twitter…
When you date a girl from Instagram: an Imgur feel good story
It’s very rare in Donald Trump’s day and age that you can flick on a social media network and see a genuinely comforting, heart-warming…
Xbox Ones and tiny tablets: this is South Africa’s ‘classroom of the future’
When I was at school, the most advanced technology we had were space cases, chair bags and desks that didn’t creak, but Microsoft and…
FOODWeLove: the Woodstock deli mixing good food with social savvy
As a willing slave to technology, I couldn’t bear go without my smartphone for more than ten minutes. It’s the de facto centre of…
Cape Town water crisis: the City’s current and future plans revealed
City of Cape Town’s water and energy efficiency strategist Sarah Rushmere today revealed just how stressed the greater Cape Town water supply system is….
TweetDeck might not be free for much longer
Struggling to nail down a reliable revenue stream while controlling its often-irate user base, Twitter may soon charge you to use some elements of…
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