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Cape Town dam levels: City’s dams are officially full

Dam levels in Cape Town have officially reached full capacity, with the municipality sharing its latest dam readings showing 100.1% storage. The readings were…

CodeSpace launches free coding courses for teens

CodeSpace Academy, a Cape Town-based tech educational institution, has announced that it will be offering free coding courses for learners from Grades 7-12 during…

Joburg braces for severe storm: What precautions to take

Residents of Johannesburg are bracing for a severe storm following a warning by the city’s Disaster Management Centre. The thunderstorm is expected to land…

Facebook says goodbye to FarmVille

Finnish developer Zynga is closing down one of its most popular web games, FarmVille, after 11 years on Facebook. Facebook announced back in July…

Free online coding and web development platform launches for SA learners

Non-profit organisation Code for Change has launched a free coding and front-end web development training platform for high school learners in South Africa as…

South Africa gets spotlight in upcoming Netflix Original for festive season

Netflix has announced a new African Original series coming to the streaming platform: a South African festive season miniseries starring local talent. The series,…

Johannesburg, West Rand gently rocked by Friday morning tremor

Johannesburg was rocking this morning, and it’s not because we’re in a brand new month. Just before 7am on Friday morning, Gauteng residents were…

Eskom: ‘national grid remains constrained’ but no signs of load shedding yet

Update, Fri 1 Mar, 11am: Still no signs of load shedding from Eskom. Spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe on Friday morning noted that the “national grid…

10 big stories from February 2019 worth reading again

It’s come an gone in the blink of an eye, almost as if it’s the shortest month of the year. (Get it?). February, for…

#JusticeForThoriso: South Africa outraged by Thoriso Themane murder

On Saturday, Polokwane man Thoriso Themane was allegedly attacked and beaten to death by five high school learners. Two videos of the attack has…

How the people of South Africa reacted to Tito Mboweni’s Budget speech

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has laid down South Africa’s budget for the next financial year. Besides his literary references to works such as the…

Twitter speculates about the Budget Speech

South Africa’s 2019 budget speech is going down at 2pm, and the people of Twitter have already got #budget2019 trending on Twitter in anticipation….

5 Twitter accounts to follow before the 2019 Budget Speech

Will we be paying more tax this year? Will the sugar tax remain? Will Eskom and SAA continue to be economic leeches on the…

So far, so good: Eskom keeps load shedding away on Friday

For the first time since Sunday, South Africa’s power utility Eskom has not switched off the lights. A load shedding free Friday morning comes…

Ajay Gupta is no longer on South Africa’s most wanted fugitives list

Don’t be surprised to see Ajay Gupta lazing on a Cape Town beach in the future. The controversial businessmen and one of the brothers…

Eskom implements Stage 4 load shedding

If the announcement on Sunday that load shedding was set to ruin South Africans’ lives once again for the next few months didn’t annoy…

South Africa’s 2019 elections will be held on 8 May 2019

South Africans will vote for their new national and provincial leaders on 8 May 2019. The date was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa during…

#SONA2019, ‘Afrikaans’ is trending on Twitter worldwide right now

So #SONA2019 is currently trending worldwide on Twitter, and it’s pretty obvious why. But if you gaze further down the social network’s top trends…

Ramaphosa, Maimane will ‘start a band’ if Malema wins the 2019 Election

When Julius Malema becomes President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa will sing Thuma Mina live in Parliament, this according to the current President during…

Watch South Africa’s #SONA2019 live from Cape Town here

After last year’s SONA delay, courtesy of the change in the Presidency, 2019’s State of the Nation Address will start on time, and on…

Celebrities pay tribute to the late James Ingram on Twitter

Grammy Award winner and Oscar nominee James Ingram has died at the age of 66 after a battle with brain cancer. The R&B singer…

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

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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