Improve your children’s online experience and safety
With our current work from home and homeschooling set up, our children need to have a seamless experience while keeping safe. Everything feels like it's moving more online, and children are having to do their work online during this lockdown period. It is essential to...
What’s after ADSL for home and SME users?
It's officially happening: Telkom is discontinuing its copper line based ADSL service, potentially leaving many home and small-to-medium enterprise (SME) users at a loose end. So where should these subscribers go next and why are they cutting the copper cord anyway?...
Ponzi and pyramid schemes make investment education essential
In Bundu, a community in rural Mpumalanga previously known as Kwa-Ndebele, economic opportunities are few and far between. As a result, the community is a breeding ground for Ponzi schemes because of the low levels of investment literacy. It is for this reason that...
Facebook debuts Avatars in Africa
Facebook has launched Avatars in Africa to give people new ways to express themselves online. Avatars are digital personas that enable people to engage across Facebook and Messenger in a more personal and dynamic way. People can use their personalised avatar to share...
‘Contactless Stay’ gives hotel industry digital confidence to reopen
With 100,8-million jobs at risk in the global travel and tourism market in 2020, and the recent banning of leisure tourism accommodation in South Africa, hoteliers are under extreme pressure. Even in the wake of Covid-19's safety measures: crowd control, prohibition...
Vodacom’s Just4You gives customers double their data
Vodacom is giving customers who buy selected bundles using the Just4You platform, a 100% bonus on daily, weekly and monthly bundles. This means that customers who buy selected data bundles via the My Vodacom App and USSD will receive double the value of their data...
Collaborative security in communities
Communities can fundamentally change the face of crime. Research into communities and crime decline in the American Sociological Review found that for every 10 organisations that focused on crime and community life in a city of 100 000 residents there was a subsequent...
Facebook launches campaign against false news
As part of its ongoing commitment in, specifically around COVID-19, Facebook will begin rolling out a new on-platform campaign across a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa to connect people to accurate sources and combat misinformation. Named 'Three Questions To...
Over R400m in eBucks spent during lockdown
At the beginning of this year, nobody could have predicted just how economically challenging the year 2020 was going to be. While many people are still coming to terms with the financial difficulties caused by Covid-19 and the national lockdown, FNB customers have...
RAF pay-outs now possible within hours
South Africans expecting a Road Accident Fund (RAF) payout after receiving an approved court order, can wait up to one year before seeing any money - another excruciating delay after having typically waited between two to five years for the case to come to trial....
Support for young entrepreneurs critical to economic growth
High barriers to entry into formal employment, new opportunities that now exist and the desire to be one's own boss have encouraged young South Africans to start their own ventures. The term "side hustle" has become synonymous with today's youth, who are starting...
Senior citizens should be using digital banking
While South African citizens are encouraged to remain indoors and work from their homes as a result of Covid-19, research around the world also highlights that senior citizens are among the most vulnerable to the pandemic. This is one of the compelling reasons for...