South Africa

Vodacom set to stream 4K Durban July footage live using 5G

Telecommunications network Vodacom will be trialing a 5G 4K video streaming system at the Durban July horseracing event this Saturday. The network is partnering…

#Coldfront trends on Twitter as South Africa freezes

After turning Cape Town into a temporary lake, and the rest of the Western and Eastern Cape into a winter wonderland, the July cold…

MTN launches ‘Made For Home’ residential fixed LTE offering

MTN is today unveiled its new home internet solution dubbed “Made For Home”. Taking a bite out of fixed line internet solutions, the telecom’s…

How to find jobs on Twitter in South Africa

Few things are more labourious and tense in life than looking for a job. For those without, it’s even more stressful. But fret not,…

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…

Absa launches its app, becoming the last big South African bank to do so

Absa has officially launched its smartphone banking app, making it the last of South Africa’s major banks with such an offering. The app, which…

Investec pips Absa to the smartphone banking app post

This is interesting. We’ve just received a media invite to the launch of Investec’s smartphone banking app. The fact that the South African-founded banking…

Windows phone is outselling iPhone, but only in a few countries

On Wednesday, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of corporate communications Frank Shaw wrote a blog post detailing some of the Microsoft’s progress across a number…

DStv and MWEB team up to offer movie downloads, free data

Paid digital satellite TV service DStv is teaming up with internet service provider MWEB to give its subscribers 6GB of ADSL data as well…

Samsung to give SA users free Wi-Fi for a year

If you had any doubts as to Samsung’s desire to stay top of the smartphone pile, check this out. The South Korean electronics giant…

Cool new crowdsourced campaign seeks to map out Africa’s best destinations

This looks pretty cool. Today sees the launch of Our Continent — a crowdsourced initiative from Continental Tyre SA — a map of the…

Want to quote R140m for a website? Here’s the right way to do it

This is clever. Anyone reading about the R140-million a South African provincial government spent on its website was probably left wondering how it could…

Meet the government WordPress site that cost R140m to build [Update]

If you were overcharged the last time you needed a website built, check this out: The Free State provincial government in South Africa reportedly…

SA music legend Miriam Makeba gets her own Google doodle

Google today marked what would have been songstress Miriam Makeba’s 81st birthday in the way it does best: with a doodle. Nicknamed Mama Africa,…

Oscar Pistorius gets bail: Twitter reacts

Following an almost week-long hearing, a South African court has granted bail to Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with the…

6 liveblogs that will keep you up to date with the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing

Look, let’s be honest for a moment. There’s pretty much no hiding from the Oscar Pistorius case. People are going to want to talk…

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