BrandsEye, the South African company that accurately predicted Britons would vote to leave the European Union by monitoring conversations on social media, now forecasts that South Africa’s election on Wednesday

Samsung Electronics is involved in detailed work with South African banks to launch the company’s Samsung Pay mobile payment and digital wallet service locally next year. The company’s South African

After extending its lead over Apple in the global smartphone market with the Galaxy S7, Samsung Electronics is now trying to keep that spirit alive before a new iPhone arrives. The South Korean company

Telkom has announced it will provide free Wi-Fi Internet access at a thousand polling stations around the country on election day, 3 August. The telecommunications operator said it is providing

Uber and homegrown rival Zebra Cabs are attempting to get South Africans’ attention by offering voters free or discounted rides to polling stations on 3 August, the date of the municipal elections. Zebra, which is

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Apple has released a new application for the iPhone that lets users control their Apple TV set-top box, mimicking the functions of the Siri remote control. The app works with the latest Apple TV, which first went

The currency that was forecast to perform the worst in emerging markets this year is also the one benefiting most from the clamour to boost returns in the wake of the UK’s Brexit vote. The rand has strengthened

Inside a packed Vodafone Group store in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, a group of the city’s tech-savvy students wait in line for wireless modems they hope will transform their ability to surf the Internet. They don’t even

We’ve all seen the polls and their (widely varying) predictions for Wednesday’s municipal elections. But what are the people really thinking? What are they saying? How much of this public conversation is generated by