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Showmax Pro brings sports live-streaming – but not to SA (yet)

Showmax has announced the launch of Showmax Pro, which will let users stream certain live sport events from SuperSport — but the service isn’t…

South Africans respond as Takealot lists a coffin on sale

Takealot caught the attention of South Africans overnight as users noticed that the e-commerce platform now lists a coffin on sale. While we’re used…

Vodacom developing app to help identify abuse in relationships

Vodacom has launched its Be The Light campaign to raise awareness around gender-based violence (GBV) — announcing that it’s developing an app to help…

Media24 announces plans for major print closures and layoffs

Media24 has announced plans to close five magazines and several newspapers, as well as additional restructuring that will affect over 500 staff members. The…

#StopHateForProfit: Facebook responds to ad boycott movement

Facebook has responded to the #StopHateForProfit movement that has seen advertisers boycott the platform in July, claiming it does not profit from hate. At…

City of Cape Town trends as eviction incident goes viral

#CityofCapeTown trended on Wednesday and Thursday as users criticised the Cape Town municipality over an eviction incident that went viral. A video shared on…

#Argentina falls 3-0 to Croatia, becomes the laughing stock of Twitter

It’s not everyday that Argentina gets slapped 3-0 in the World Cup group stages. Even though the South American giants faced an equally strong…

Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned from the California chip maker after he breached company protocol by engaging in a relationship with a fellow…

40.3%: that’s how full Cape Town’s dams are right now

Watching Cape Town’s dams fill from the water’s edge may be as boring as watching paint dry, but to see the numbers slowly increase…

Akon’s building a Senegalese ‘Smart City’ with his cryptocurrency ‘Akoin’

There’s a new cryptocurrency soon to be launched, but it won’t be taking its name from any memes or computer jargon. Instead, it’ll be…

Superbalist and Spree announce merger

Big news in South Africa’s online retail space: two of South Africa’s clothing and lifestyle juggernauts, Spree and Superbalist, are merging into a single…

In graphs: Cape Town’s dam storage jumps by 28% in just 8 weeks

At the end of April, the water situation in Cape Town was dire. Dams were nearly empty. In fact, the Department of Water and…

WATCH: dramatic video of Cape Town cash-in-transit heist emerges

Cash-in-transit heists are no longer a Gauteng phenomenon judging by a dramatic morning on Cape Town’s Flats. On Monday around 9pm along the city’s…

Aussies struggle to watch World Cup after Optus’s streaming goofs

While loadshedding has caused many South Africans to miss World Cup games this year, Australian fans aren’t having it much better. Australia’s World Cup…

Hi again loadshedding: Eskom’s really unfunny meme is back in South Africa

Four years ago, the World Cup was disrupted by loadshedding as Eskom struggled to maintain juice in its electricity grid. Last night, as the…

Cape Town’s dams are now healthier than they were in June 2016

There’s some more good news this week for thirsty Cape Town. As of 11 June 2018, the city’s total dam storage levels stood at…

South Africa sees 12.4% growth in smartphones sales in Q1 2018

South Africans might be pinching their pockets in other sectors of their financial lives (not to mention the upcoming petrol price hike), but they’re…

Week of rain leaves Cape Town’s dams just shy of 30% mark

How quickly things can change, Cape Town. According to the City’s latest dam report, Cape Town’s six largest dams’ total storage now stands at…

Upcoming petrol price hike sends South Africans into mild Twitter panic

From midnight on Wednesday 6 June 2018, the price of a litre of petrol will jump by 82 cents. This will push the total…

Cape Town’s dams slowly fill to 24% after May’s rainfall

At the end of the fifth month of 2018, Cape Town finally has some positive water-related news. As of 28 May 2018, total dam…

211 000 Cape Town households use less than 6000L per month

Although Cape Town is set to enjoy one of the wettest weeks of the year thus far, the city’s still in the middle of…

Africa Check’s Promise Tracker reveals how little your government has done

Governments, like potential Bumble matches, will say anything to get you to swipe right on that election ballot paper. And often, those promises made…

South Africa Could Leap Ahead By Simulating The Future With AI

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What South Africans Need To Know About The New Face Of Banking Fraud

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

OPPO Reno15 Series Lands In South Africa With Big Cameras And Bigger Battery Ambitions

OPPO Reno15 Series Brings Flagship-Level Hardware Logic to the Mid-Tier in South Africa

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

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