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Western Cape taxi strike adds to Cape Town’s public transport woes

Today Capetonians woke to rain, gridlocked highways, late trains, buses on fire, and a taxi strike. Yes, yet another taxi strike began in the…

#Unemployment trends in South Africa as jobless rate rises

South Africa’s unemployment rate has increased by 0.5% to 27.2% between April and June 2018, according to Stats SA’s latest report. More than 100…

Netflix’s ‘Man in a Van’ ad is really going to annoy satellite TV companies

It’s safe to say that Netflix South Africa has adopted the Wendy’s brand of guerilla marketing, this after its latest ad dropped in the…

Stats SA: South Africa’s now home to 57.73m people

South Africa’s population has grown by less than a million in 2018, this according to Statistics South Africa’s mid year population report. Published today,…

Donald Trump’s latest Iran tweet gains 50k retweets in five hours

US President Donald Trump needed little over five hours to amass over 137 000 likes and more than 50 000 retweets on his latest…

Twitter knows an awful lot about you, it reveals in new privacy policy

Tweet often? If so, there’s a fat chance that Twitter knows an awful lot about you, your interests and even your lofty aspirations. This…

McDonald’s ‘Dad’ ad trends on YouTube again after global backlash

When Pepsi suggested that its product could solve the world’s problems with the help of Kendall Jenner, you might’ve thought it would be the…

#RIPKarabo: missing woman found slain and ‘burned’, Twitter erupts

On Tuesday 9 May, a tweet was published by a user dubbed Steph and began circulating on social media. “My friend has been missing…

A tweet about chicken nuggets just broke Twitter’s all-time retweet record

It’s not often Twitter users see more than 1000 retweets for a single tweet, let alone 3.5-million, but that’s what internet famous nugget-loving teenager…

‘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…

‘Disaster’ Fyre Festival likened to ‘that alien movie in South Africa’ on social media

If you pay US$12 000 for a ticket to a music festival, you’d probably expect… well, a music festival, right? That’s not what attendees…

What has Donald Trump tweeted about most in his first 100 days?

Even though Donald Trump is now president of a global superpower, he still has plenty of time to throw a tweet or two out…

Twitter now boasts 328m users, bests investor estimates

Although Twitter is an integral member of social media’s biggest hitters culturally, it’s lacking an impact financially. Still, the company enjoyed a better than…

#SAAStrike: 32 flights grounded as SAA trends once again

If you’re travelling to or from South Africa today on a South African Airways (SAA) flight, you’re one of the lucky few it seems….

[Update] Cape Town’s Twitter and Insta users celebrate the stormy weather

Update #2: 1.40pm: Because Cape Town is, well, Cape Town, #rain is now among the top trending hashtags in the city and the country…

Bonang faults SAA’s food, airline hits back with sassy tweet

Bonang Matheba is trending on Twitter once again today, and that’s largely thanks to SAA. The airline, in a month that has seen viral…

South Africa wishes Jacob Zuma a happy birthday with #WhyIHateZuma

Oh South Africa. It’s your President’s birthday today and this is how you wish him? #WhyIHateZuma has been on our watchlist for much of…

Zapiro’s controversial South Africa ‘rape’ cartoon debated on Twitter

Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known professionally as Zapiro, has long been known for his unadulterated take on South African current affairs. But social media…

#ZumaMustGoChallenge: South Africa’s newest dance mocks protesting grannies

South Africa has a rich history of struggle songs, with the likes of Siyaya, iYoh Solomon and Senzeni Na uniting protesters for decades. So when…

This is what happens when a pelican strikes a Mango Boeing 737 mid-air

What happens when a large bird strikes a commercial passenger plane? That’s the question pilots and passengers onboard a Mango flight from Cape Town…

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