South Africa

BBM CEO: we can be ‘one of the two’ top chat apps in South Africa

Remember BBM? That once iconic acronym stood for BlackBerry Messenger, one of the world’s most used chat apps. But that legacy has long since…

Weekly Round Up Podcast #106: Google I/O & WannaCry ransomware

This week, the trusty Hadlee Simons hosts Andy Walker and Stephen Timm. To start us off, Andy talks about WannaCry, the worldwide attack involving…

Airbnb adds R2.4bn to SA economy in 2016, hosts 400 000 visitors

Airbnb has this week published its annual economic report, which sheds some light on the home sharing platform’s economic impact on various global economies….

Feeling chilly, South Africa? Snow reported at Afriski, Tiffindell & Sani Pass

Update #3, 15 May, 12pm: Snow continued to fall across South Africa’s Drakensberg and Lesotho’s Maloti mountains. Have a good weekend? Bet it wasn’t…

Sorry Cape Town, the Kruger National Park is SA’s most Instagrammed destination

Here’s a turn up for the books. If you were expecting Cape Town’s Table Mountain, V&A Waterfront or Johannesburg’s Sandton City to be the…

Homo naledi might’ve roamed Earth alongside us, new findings suggest

Homo naledi, an extinct species of homonim, was woken from her long slumber in September 2015, but a breakthrough at the same Cradle Of…

‘Sunflower worth more than a human life’: #Coligny trends in South Africa as accused granted bail

#Coligny is the hashtag currently dominating Twitter in South Africa, not #MondayMotivation. The farming town in the North West has for the latter weeks…

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

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

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

GTA 6 Is Officially Coming in 2026: The New Date, the Delays and the South African Reality Check

The Gaming Gear South Africans Are Actually Buying This December

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel