South Africa

FNB Connect gets data transfer, monthly rollover and usage alert features

If you’re an FNB Connect user, you will now have the option to roll over your remaining data to the following month. In a…

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…

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…

Trippin’ With Skhumba is Showmax’s first travel-comedy Original

South African streaming service Showmax on Wednesday announced its third Original set to debut after 2017’s Tali’s Wedding Diary, and January’s The Girl From…

US student who swapped SIMs to steal $5m in cryptocurrency pleads guilty

A US student could face more than 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing $5-million in cryptocurrency, reported Motherboard….

You can now order food on Uber Eats in Paarl

Uber Eats is now available 60km northeast of Cape Town in the Winelands town of Paarl, the company announced on Thursday. It’s the third…

Uber Lite should be the only Uber app you need

There are many lite versions of popular apps today, all aiming to make our lives easier when we’re struggling with data costs, low storage…

Google wants to take South Africa’s schoolkids on a virtual field trip

Think back to your school days for a moment. We bet you loved field trips right? They were a chance to get out of…

South Africa needs to get kids interested in computer science, or risk falling badly behind

Given that South Africa already suffers from a lack of adequate IT skills, it is alarming to see that interest in science and maths…

Gumtree officially SA’s biggest site, by a long shot

Online classifieds website Gumtree is currently South Afica’s most popular online destination, according to Effective Measure. Based on unique views this August, the online…

Nal’ibali reading campaign joins Mxit to improve SA’s literacy with new app

The Nal’ibali reading campaign has joined forces with South African based social networking platform Mxit to launch an app aimed at better distributing children’s…

FNB wants to put a tablet in people’s hands for under R100 a month

South African banking giant First National Bank (FNB) is continuing its big device push with the announcement today that it will now offer a…

South Africa’s first Bitcoin ATM comes to Johannesburg

If you’re not virtually mining it or relying on the kindness of the internet, the most common way of getting Bitcoin cryptocurrency is to…

You can now buy Google Glass from Takealot… as long as you’ve R27k to burn [Update: someone did]

Critical update: someone has made the plunge and purchased Google Glass from Takealot. We don’t know how many, just that it has happened. “We…

16 graphs that shed new light on the South African smartphone space

As we’ve pointed out time and time again, South Africa is a mobile country. If you’re a regular reader then stats like the fact…

Is Mweb’s tweeting couch a sign we’ve reached peak smart objects?

There was a time, not so very long ago, when we thought that the Internet of Things and smart objects would revolutionise the way…

That free Wi-Fi we all love so much? Yeah, it’s never really free

It’s become a thing. Free Wi-Fi for all is the new panacea for all broadband ills and will help the poor escape their plight,…

Here’s why you shouldn’t treat Naspers’ numbers as evidence of a tech bubble

One of the most followed stories and right in the heart of the debate around tech bubbles and valuations (especially in the emerging markets…

Don’t burn your wallet: why SA hasn’t reached its mobile, cashless future (yet)

When it comes to technologies that have failed to deliver on the hype that preceded them, it’s pretty difficult to beat mobile money in…

Here’s your complete guide to understanding how Twitter advertising works

So, it’s official. Twitter advertising is now available in South Africa. It’s official because there was an official launch with Goodie Bags, and a…

Desperate for free Wi-Fi? Try taking a ride in a South African minibus taxi

South Africa’s taxi industry doesn’t have the best reputation — perhaps undeservedly so — but now it’s showing that it at least has some…

New ministers, new ministries, old problems: can the SA government sort out its tech issues?

The more things change, the more they stay the same — at least they do if you’re the South African government and, instead of…

Samsung Celebrated for Transformative Tech by Consumer Technology Association

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