May 19, 2014
During the recent elections, a significant number of Mxit users subscribed to numerous political organisations, voting and news apps that outperformed other mobile social competitors in terms of following. The important 18- to 25-year-old market that makes up...
Apr 30, 2014
Political parties are bolstering their social presence on Mxit in the run-up to the elections on 7 May. Following successful voter registration drives by the IEC earlier this year on Mxit, the ANC, DA and Agang have used some creative methods to rally support and...
Apr 14, 2014
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is creating functionality in the form of application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide election data in realtime to stakeholders including politicians, media institutions and other interested parties. These APIs are...
Feb 19, 2014
Since Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim took the reins at the Communications Department just a few months ago, a number of its objectives have been met – and, although there are still goals that need to be reached, there is activity taking place. This was the...
