Mobile network Mxit claims to have nearly 10 million users in the country, making it South Africa’s most popular social media platform by far, eclipsing Facebook’s six million users and ...

Herman Heunis isn't your typical social-media startup founder. He's 50 years old, was raised on a sheep farm in Namibia, and is a veteran of the South African Navy. Little surprise that the ...

MXit responds. Memeburn spoke to MXit and this is what the company had to say: Sharing is an area where we know that we’re not as strong as we’d like to be, and we’re working hard on fixing ...

MXit is like MySpace in the mid-2000s—with many of the good and the bad connotations that label implies. Heunis used to write infrastructure software for mobile operators and every expert told ...

Flashback to 2010. Naspers is still a majority shareholder in Mxit, at this stage Africa’s largest social network and instant messaging client with 27-million registered users. It is the darling ...

MXit has responded to problems it encountered with users sending around lists of names from one contact to another on the mobile messaging system. According to The Star ‘scandalous "slut lists ...

Mxit, in its statement, said its application would still be available to the public as a download. But as part of the deal, Mxit chief executive Francois Swart will depart after three years in charge.

The Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter at Mxit’s WonderlandBy Michelle Atagana and Matthew BucklandJust over a year ago, on a rainy August morning, Alan Knott-Craig Jnr took a long walk along a ...

Mxit is South Africa's most popular social media platform. Alan Knott-Craig recently stepped down as CEO. He describes mobile as a "revolution" in Africa ...

Mobile network Mxit claims to have nearly 10 million users in the country, making it South Africa’s most popular social media platform by far, eclipsing Facebook’s six million users and ...

Mxit is South Africa's most popular social media platform. Alan Knott-Craig recently stepped down as CEO. He describes mobile as a "revolution" in Africa ...