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#JoburgFire: Twitter accounts to follow for breaking news

A fire currently tearing through a Johannesburg CBD building is one of the biggest news stories on Twitter today. While South Africans have the…

#Recession: South Africa’s politicians blast the ANC after GDP shrinks

There’s some bad news today, South Africa. The nation has fallen into a technical recession after its latest gross domestic product (GDP) figures were…

City of Cape Town in talks with DWS to relax water restrictions

After its latest dam report heralded more good news, the City of Cape Town announced that it is in talks with national government to…

Cape Town’s dams begin September nearly two-thirds full

After we highlighted the Berg River Dam’s slow roll to 100% capacity in last week’s report, Cape Town’s other supply dams are the star…

Chill South Africa, #Listeriosis is trending for all the right reasons this time

As a South African, seeing the word “listeriosis” trending on Twitter is a signal of both bad news and terribly boring sandwiches devoid of…

Nelson Mandela Bay’s dams are just 18% full

Cape Town may be recovering from the drought that plagued it for all of 2017, but other areas across South Africa haven’t been so…

Cape Town’s huge Berg River Dam is nearly 100% full

Drought? What drought, Cape Town? After the latest dam report was issued by the City of Cape Town on Monday, there’s nothing but good…

AP Styleguide strips the ‘internet’ of its proper noun status

The AP Stylebook — an influential media style guide that shaped online writing styles the world over — has announced on Twitter that it…

Uber South Africa created 4000 jobs, travelled over 93m kilometres since launch

Uber has been in South Africa for a good two-and-a-half years now, and is available in five cities, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Durban…

Alibaba sold goods worth $476bn in fiscal year 2015

For the fiscal year ending 30 March 2016, Alibaba’s China retail marketplace platforms sold goods worth more than 3 trillion yuan, about US$476-billion. This…

Intel co-founder Andy Grove dies, aged 79

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive”. Those are the words that have been most commonly used as the tech world…

FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi is now Huawei’s global brand ambassador

Huawei has announced that it has appointed FC Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi as its Global Brand Ambassador. Huawei is a Chinese global leading company…

BidorBuy, BitX partner to offer Bitcoin as payment method

South African online marketplace BidorBuy will now be offering Bitcoin as a payment option for customers. The service is offered in partnership with Bitcoin payment…

You can now boost video quality on Opera Mini for Android

Opera Mini has long been an important tool for bringing mobile web access to people in markets where data is expensive. Thing is, until…

Nomanini vendors in Mozambique can now top up using MPesa

This is interesting. Enterprise payment platform provider Nomanini has integrated with M-Pesa in Mozambique enabled via its local country partner, Mozambique Mobile Solutions (MMS),…

Founder of 4Chan joins Google+ team to build communities

Christopher Poole, founder of the image-based bulletin board 4Chan has announced his new position at Google. Poole made the announcement in a post on Tumblr….

Gawker Media signs union contract with its employees, the first at a digital media company

Gawker Media, a New York based online media company and blog network, founded and owned by Nick Denton, has announced that it has struck…

FitKey users can now earn Multiply points

Insurance and healthcare providers are desperate for their customers to be fit and healthy. It makes sense too, the healthier those customers are, the…

Naspers injects R3.9bn into Indian online travel play

Emerging markets internet and media giant Naspers this week announced that it would be pumping another US$250-million into Indian online travel outfit Ibibo. The…

Zambia to get solar-powered WiFi network

This is interesting. Zambia’s capital Lusaka is set to get a solar-powered WiFi network, courtesy of a company called Plexus Wifi. The pay-as-you-go network…

This tech hub wants to change the way Africa approaches disease outbreaks

Every year hundreds of thousands of Africans die of malaria, HIV/Aids, and a variety of other communicable diseases. The cost on lives, economies, and…

Animation students win big at Cape Town International Animation Festival

If anything is to be taken away from the Cape Town International Animation Festival, which ran from 18-21 February 2016, at the River Club,…

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