Showmax is the best-rated streaming app on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in South Africa, beating international players like Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Disney+. This comes after MultiChoice relaunched the streaming service in partnership with Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky in February 2024. This involved a significant rebrand and upgrade to NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming [...]
One of the highest-ranking members in the collapsed Mirror Trading International (MTI) pyramid scheme has been arrested for contempt of court. He was arrested on Friday, 7 March 2025 and was in the holding cells of the Cullinan Magistrate’s Court on Monday pending a hearing. MyBroadband may not report his name as he has yet [...]
When the British conquered the world, they did so by ship and called themselves merchants. Their mercantile capitalism used trade and commerce to create massive businesses, such as Anglo American, which dominated markets in South Africa. These merchants made the British very rich. The Dutch, who arrived in the Cape before the British, were called [...]
The recent temporary withdrawal of USAID funding by the United States government has shown how reliant African economies are on the largesse of other jurisdictions. Even a small part of the South African health budget came from the United States taxpayer. As people are seeing the pitfalls of aid, we must ask ourselves why we [...]
In the rolling hills of KwaZulu-Natal, two neighbouring plots tell a story that epitomizes South Africa’s land crisis. On one side stands a well-maintained farm, its owner making monthly mortgage payments while complying with every regulation. On the other, an informal settlement grows unchecked, paying no taxes while drawing on the same municipal services. This [...]
