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 ...

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 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 ...

MXit’s spokesperson Juan du Toit highlighted this advantage during his interview with South African tech site, Memeburn.. “I think users just immediately saw a cost benefit to using MXit.

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 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 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 ...