Mxit

Sekhukhuni aims to amend the pan-African agenda and shift its focus to spiritual development.

Simple phone services are stepping in to help women who can’t seek clinical advice in person.

Do social network surveys accurately reflect the views of SA’s youth? And are the media being critical enough when electing to publish their findings?

The producers of "A Lucky Man" hope that previewing the film on the social media app will encourage young people to discuss the issues it tackles.

Avatars, warriors, wizards, whizz-kids, mavericks and dreamers, meet the man who is moving Mxit into emerging markets.

You could almost feel sorry for Google’s management team lately, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>. Almost.

Alan Knott-Craig Jnr is looking for attention. He wants so much of it, that he’s just bought the attention of 40-million people in 120 countries.

Naspers has sold its 30% stake in the mobile instant messenger, MXit, to technology investment firm World of Avatar for an undisclosed amount.

Vodacom, MXit and Google have predicted that mobile marketing and advertising spend in South Africa will grow to R1-billion by 2012.

Grade 12 learners struggling to understand their teachers now have an unexpected lifeline — their mobile phones.

Dr Math, first started in 2007 in North West, was recently upgraded at NMMU through the master’s studies of its inventor Dr Laurie Butgereit.

Research shows that parents do not know how to protect kids using the internet.

WHO has turned to mobile instant messaging and social networks MXit and JamiiX to prepare communities in southeast Asia for disaster management.

Forget about Twitter and Facebook. All you need is a phone and an app and you’re networked. <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> reports

While South Africa’s teachers were on strike in September, volunteers used the country’s largest social network to help students prepare for exams.