MTN’s mobile money business in South Africa, known as MoMo, said on Thursday that it will make 4G and 5G smartphones available on credit to prepaid customers – without the need for background credit checks. The “Handset Rent-to-Own” solution is aimed at getting millions of South Africans, many of whom still rely on outdated feature…
In the grand tradition of shows with “wives” in the title, Netflix’s new drama “The Hunting Wives” is a salacious soap centered on women behaving badly. But something is noticeably different in this east Texas town, where the wives of a conservative gubernatorial candidate, county sheriff and local megachurch reverend carry guns in their handbags….
The ASUS ROG Strix G16 is back, and it’s promising big things. With a serious boost in power and a slick new design, this year’s model is more than just an upgrade—it’s a statement. While it takes some design cues from the Strix Scar 18, the G16 carves out its own identity with an impressive…
Katy Watson BBC News, Sydney Harbour Bridge Dean Lewins/EPA A planned pro-Palestinian protest across the Sydney Harbour Bridge has gone ahead after it was authorised by the Supreme Court just one day prior, in what organisers called a “historic” decision. Tens of thousands turned out for the March for Humanity on Sunday despite torrential rain…
Katlego Malapane, technology strategist at Microsoft. In South Africa’s developing economy, where technology is known to open various doors of opportunity, small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) are at the grassroots for building economic change. Yet, the journey to digital transformation is reactive to stretched resources and unstructured approaches into the tech market. My recent…
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Commvault, a global leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, hosted the latest edition of its Commvault SHIFT roadshow event at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg on 10 July 2025. Under the theme “SHIFT from continuous threats to continuous business”, the event brought together a host of industry leaders, partners,…
Smithsonian Institution says it will update exhibit to reflect all impeachments of US presidents following backlash. The parent organisation of a top-visited history museum in the United States has denied that political pressure played a role in the removal of a display about the impeachments of US President Donald Trump. The Smithsonian Institution, which runs the…
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. The villain of the moment is the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), which really, deeply, and utterly screwed it up. But at heart, the Please Call Me saga is the fault of lawyers, or rather the two pig-headed clients, Vodacom and Nkosana Makate, who should have stopped listening to those…
CANNES — Ten years ago, Vitalik Buterin and a small band of developers huddled in a drafty Berlin loft strung with dangling lightbulbs, laptops balanced on mismatched chairs and chipped tables. They weren’t corporate titans or venture-backed founders — just idealists working long nights to push a radical idea into reality. From that sparse office,…
