Author: Gugu Lourie
The KwaZulu-Natal estate agent at the centre of a Twitter race row has gone to ground, as her former employer counts the cost of the damage to their brand. By Jeff Wicks, NewsAgency Penny Sparrow took to Facebook and labelled black beachgoers as “monkeys”, which resulted in a national social media outcry. Dear #PennySparrow If you can’t stand “monkeys” then Africa is a wrong continent for you. #RacistsMustFall pic.twitter.com/2bPWwW8OKj — Terry Pheto (@TerryPheto) January 3, 2016 Jawitz Properties CEO Herschel Jawitz told News24 that while Sparrow had left the company two months ago, her online profile still associated her with…
Vodacom customers who had their accounts debited twice will be refunded by Monday, according to the cellphone company. By Thulani Gqirana, NewsAgency On Friday, a number of Vodacom customers complained that their accounts had been debited twice. In an SMS to customers on Friday afternoon, the cellular network said it was aware of the problem. “Dear customer, due to a technical glitch, your account may have been debited twice. We are resolving the problem,” the message read. “Where a second debit was processed, Vodacom will ensure that refunds and all associated charges are paid by close of business Monday at the…
On December 21, the company SpaceX made history by successfully launching a rocket and returning it to a safe landing on Earth. It’s also the day that SpaceX founder Elon Musk was nominated for a Luddite Award. By Andrew Maynard The nomination came as part of a campaign by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a leading science and technology policy think tank, to call out the “worst of the year’s worst innovation killers.” It’s an odd juxtaposition, to say the least. The Luddite Awards – named after an 18th-century English worker who inspired a backlash against the Industrial Revolution…
BMW Group at the CES 2016 in Las Vegas to presents the principle of the contactless touchscreen with AirTouch.
New Year’s resolutions are set with the best of intentions. But they notoriously fail to translate into lasting behavioural changes.
The boards of Cell C and 3C Telecommunications have approved the recapitalisation of the country’s third largest mobile phone operator, Cell C and making Blue Label Telecoms a strategic equity partner
Hollywood has broken two very different records this holiday season. Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the first movie to reach US $1 billion in gross sales in just 12 days. Star Wars opens in China in January and so it will likely push its sales to even more astronomical levels.
The fantasy drama Game of Thrones once again topped the list of the most pirated and illegally downloaded TV show of the year for the 4th year in a row.
The Catholic Church in South Africa called on government on Tuesday to suspend its nuclear procurement plans and hold a referendum on the issue as a matter of urgency.
The scene described in Nancy Jo Sales’s huge Tinder report published in Vanity Fair magazine featured groups of twenty-something friends and colleagues in a Manhattan bar relaxing after work. But rather than socialising with each other they were engrossed in the more private world of their mobile phones, seeking something completely personal: a sexual partner (albeit not necessarily just for sex).