If you missed it, Alan Knott-Craig Jnr (through World of Avatar) acquired a 90% stake in MXit, well known for its mobile instant messaging service. Besides stepping down, Herman Heunis along with Naspers sold their stakes in the company and the remaining 10% is for the benefit of the employees of MXit. Alan will now [...]
Over the weekend I read an article which covered Koos Bekker’s recent talk at the Highway Africa conference, in Cape Town, where he spoke about how internet innovation is failing in Africa and Europe. Now before I carry on, I’d like to reiterate the definition of innovation I subscribe to, which can be found in [...]
I think we have some really exciting startups in South Africa and I would like to showcase their story and the people behind them. As a side project I’ve decided to start “withTy” to interview startup founders and their startups. In this first episode of withTy I sat down with Jaco van Wyk and Josh [...]