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City of Cape Town launches Ombudsman SMS service

The City of Cape Town Ombudsman Office has launched a new SMS service for residents of the municipality. Residents can now either send an…

EskomSePush app temporarily suspended from Google Play Store

Loadshedding app EskomSePush was temporarily suspended from the Google Play Store this week. Herman Maritz, co-creator of the app, shared the news of the…

Twitter suspends users for tweeting ‘Memphis’

In one of the strangest bugs to hit the social media site, Twitter suspended accounts who tweet the word ‘Memphis’. The bug was first…

Spotify app now supports Afrikaans and Zulu: How to switch languages

Spotify has announced that the app and website will now support 36 additional languages, including the South African languages Afrikaans and Zulu. This brings…

Non-US YouTube creators to be taxed for US viewers

YouTube creators outside the United States need to brace themselves as Google is set to deduct US taxes from their earnings. On 9 March,…

Women Techsters: Microsoft, Tech4Dev partner to train women and girls in Africa

Microsoft and Tech4Dev have launched the Women Techsters Initiative, which will train women and girls in Africa in coding and tech skills. The initiative…

Eskom announces Stage 2 loadshedding until Friday

Eskom announced that Stage 2 loadshedding will take place from Wednesday, 10 March until Friday, 12 March. The power utility made the announcement on…

Cape Town dam levels surge nearly 20% in a wonderfully wet July

July was a particularly fruitful month for Cape Town and its surface water storage system. On the eve of yet another strong cold front,…

Johannesburg’s City Power has been hit by ‘ransomware virus’

Johannesburg’s power utility City Power has been hit by ransomware, it tweeted on Thursday morning, crippling its website and invoicing system. “City Power has…

Pictures: Cold front brings snow to South Africa, and social media

Snow fell on Western Cape mountains after two cold fronts passed through the province on Monday and Tuesday, and South Africans didn’t miss the…

Cape Town dams now 65% full after rain from ‘intense’ cold front

All this rain in Cape Town has to go somewhere, right? According to the City, it seems that a fair amount has found its…

Twitter’s coping with the Boris Johnson news by posting Donald Trump memes

Former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson will be the next UK prime minister, beating rival Jeremy Hunt by a clear margin in the race…

Leopard found wandering around Benoni goes viral on Facebook

We’re used to hearing of baboons infiltrating houses in Cape Town, or lions escaping from the Kruger National Park, but leopards hiding in laundry…

South Africans spent more time searching for FaceApp than Mandela this week

South Africans spent more of their time this week searching for viral photos app FaceApp than former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday, this according to…

SAWS issues a flood warning for Cape Town from Thursday night into Friday

In case you thought shivering at the office was your only issue today in Cape Town, there’s a chance that you may be swimming…

Here’s how South Africans spent their 67 minutes on Nelson Mandela Day 2019

Mandela Day is now very much a part of South African culture. It’s a day where we all strive to give back to the…

Johnny Clegg has died: South Africa mourns the man with the ‘Great Heart’

Johnny Clegg, one of South Africa’s most influential musicians of the late 1980s, has died. The news broke on Tuesday, however Clegg has been…

South Africa mourns the loss of former Bafana Bafana player Marc Batchelor

South Africans on Tuesday took to Twitter to mourn the loss of former Bafana Bafana player Marc Batchelor, who was gunned down outside his…

South Africa can’t wait to see Jacob Zuma at today’s State Capture Inquiry

Former president Jacob Zuma is set to testify at the state capture inquiry on Monday, where he will be interrogated about his conduct during…

SA rugby legend James Small has died, Twitter pays its respects

Former South African rugby player, James Small, has died. Small, who was among the 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning squad, reportedly suffered a heart attack,…

#RIPNomhleNkonyeni: South Africans pay tribute to the late actress

South African actress Nomhle Nkonyeni died at the age of 77 on Wednesday morning, a report by the Herald Live has confirmed. The Order of Ikhamanga…

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down again tonight

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all experienced connectivity issues on Wednesday night, the former confirmed in a post on Twitter. Ironically alerting users of its…

Zimbabwe tweets proof of its R139m electricity voucher from Eskom

You’re not the only person, or entity, who purchases electricity from Eskom. The South African power utility also sells juice to Zimbabwe, and recently…

Maziv’s Fibre Push Brings Rural South Africa Closer to True High-Speed Internet

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

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