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Obren’s MAFS Mzansi Exit Was a Long Time Coming

Obren Motswane just became the first cast member in Married at First Sight Mzansi history to walk out mid-season, and the experts let him go without a fight. The official…

Kevin Orwa September 9, 2026

Entertainment

Jimmy Kimmel’s 2027 Exit Talk Says More About Disney Than About Kimmel

Word broke this week that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will wrap in May 2027 when his contract expires, after 24 years on ABC. ABC denied it within hours, calling the report…

Martha Ottonan September 9, 2026

Technology

Meta’s Muse Is a Landmark AI Agent, and the Trust Math Doesn’t Work

Meta launched Muse yesterday, and for once the marketing language is roughly accurate. This is not a chatbot with better manners. Muse is a proactive agent that sends email, books…

Mark Grantt September 9, 2026

Electronics

Samsung’s Fold8 Lands in South Africa, and the Carrier Deal Matters More Than the Specs

Samsung's most expensive phones have landed in South Africa, and the price tags arrived first. The Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra starts at R50,999 and climbs to R60,999 for the 1TB…

Morman Tebolo September 9, 2026

Gaming

Ocarina of Time Remake Footage Proves Nintendo Chose Safety Over Ambition

After months of leaks promising something bold, the Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct gave us twenty minutes of Ocarina of Time remake gameplay and confirmed the one thing leakers were wrong…

Mark Grantt September 9, 2026

Smartphones

Huawei’s Mate XT 2 Nails the Tri-Fold, Then Paywalls Its Best Screen

Huawei launched the Mate XT 2 in China on September 7 with an inward-folding hinge, a new Kirin 9050 Pro, and a starting price of CNY 19,999, roughly $2,980. Pre-orders…

Morman Tebolo September 9, 2026

Music

Bad Bunny’s Seven-Emmy Sweep Is a Win for Craft, Not Just Culture

Seven nominations, seven wins. When the Television Academy opened the Creative Arts Emmys at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles this weekend, the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show…

Sibusiso Tebogo September 8, 2026

Sports

Chelsea Deserved More Against Arsenal, and That’s Exactly the Problem

Morgan Rogers needed 77 seconds to silence the Emirates on Sunday. His volley came off a Reece James free-kick clearance and briefly made Xabi Alonso's Chelsea look like the real…

Sibusiso Tebogo September 8, 2026

Electronics

HONOR Pad 20 and MagicBook X14 Arrive in SA Built for Backpacks, Not Headlines

The Magic V6 foldable got all the applause when HONOR took over Melrose Arch in Johannesburg in late August, and the surprise Robot Phone reveal stole most of the headlines.…

Morman Tebolo September 8, 2026

Gaming

Onimusha Didn’t Sell a Million Copies on Nostalgia Alone

Twenty years is long enough for a franchise to die properly. Onimusha got a quiet funeral, a couple of remasters as flowers at the service, then nothing. On Friday it…

Mark Grantt September 8, 2026

Smartphones

The Galaxy Z Fold 8’s First Discount Exposes Samsung’s Awkward Pricing Problem

Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 8 in early August and it's already on sale. Since yesterday, Amazon and Best Buy have been taking $250 off every variant, no trade-in,…

Morman Tebolo September 8, 2026

Entertainment

The Wheelchair Is the Best Idea in Leon Schuster’s Netflix Deal

Leon Schuster is 75 years old, his back has been through at least four surgeries, and he just signed a film deal with Netflix. He pitched the idea to the…

Kevin Orwa September 7, 2026

Entertainment

The Emmys Taped Their Best Awards Weekend and Buried It on FXX

The Television Academy spent this summer working to make its own awards smaller. It rebranded the Creative Arts Emmys as Nights 1 and 2 of the 78th Emmy Awards, moved…

Martha Ottonan September 7, 2026

Technology

OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack Their Sandbox. They Found a Wiki Nobody Watched.

Somewhere in Germany, a 25-year-old wiki spent eight weeks this spring as the private message board of a swarm of AI agents. Roughly 15,000 edits from systems that were supposed…

Mark Grantt September 7, 2026

Electronics

The Redmi 17 is a load-shedding phone dressed up as an entertainment phone

The Redmi 17 goes on sale in South Africa today at R6,499, and the pitch around it is pure entertainment. A 6.9-inch screen, loud stereo speakers, a phone built for…

Morman Tebolo September 7, 2026

Gaming

A Million Copies in Three Days: Dawnwalker Didn’t Need a Perfect Launch

We're a site that normally spends its week covering local celebrity drama and the occasional Hollywood Walk of Fame star, so a Polish vampire RPG topping a million copies was…

Mark Grantt September 7, 2026

Smartphones

Apple’s $2,300 iPhone Ultra Will Skip Face ID and Still Sell Out

The iPhone Ultra price leaks arrived this week and the internet did what it always does: converted currencies badly and panicked. I've spent the last two days pulling apart the…

Morman Tebolo September 6, 2026

Business Tech

Wonderful’s $5B Series C Is a Wager on Forward-Deployed Engineers

Wonderful closed a $550 million Series C this week at a $5 billion valuation, and the raw numbers do most of the talking. Four priced rounds in roughly fourteen months.…

Mark Grantt September 6, 2026

Lifestyle

Sweat-Jetting Is the Travel Trend Nobody Asked For and Everyone Is Booking Anyway

Sweat-jetting, the art of booking a holiday built entirely around exercise, is officially a thing. Vogue gave it a name this week, Tripadvisor's data has been pointing at it since…

Martha Ottonan September 6, 2026

Electronics

Samsung’s Fold8 Lineup Is Two Different Phones for Two Different South African Buyers

Samsung's 2026 foldables have been on South African shelves for about two weeks, and after proper time with the full lineup, including a very crowded 947 Joburg Day at Crocodile…

Morman Tebolo September 6, 2026

Gaming

September 2026’s Release Deluge Is Less a Gift Than a Scheduling Crisis

Four major releases in twenty-two days. The Blood of Dawnwalker landed September 3, Onimusha: Way of the Sword followed a day later, Marvel's Wolverine arrives September 15, and Silent Hill:…

Mark Grantt September 6, 2026

Smartphones

The iPhone Ultra’s $2,500 Price Looks Settled, Its Production Doesn’t

Everyone is arguing about whether $2,500 is too much for a foldable iPhone. It's the wrong argument. The pricing has been effectively public for over a week, and the number…

Morman Tebolo September 5, 2026

Entertainment

Jim Thornton Got Fired. The Police Never Even Charged Him.

Jim Thornton announced Wheel of Fortune for fifteen years. Sony Pictures Television ended that on September 4 with a brief statement and the phrase "effective immediately," a day after passenger…

Martha Ottonan September 5, 2026

Electronics

The M6 Mac mini Is Great Hardware at the Wrong Price for South Africa

Apple launched the M6 Mac mini as quietly as it launches anything. A press release on August 25, pre-orders the same day, a product page appearing on the local store…

Morman Tebolo September 5, 2026

Gaming

GTA 6’s Netflix Premiere Was Appointment Television by Design

Rockstar didn't hand the GTA 6 Extended Look to Netflix because it needed reach. A plain YouTube drop would have pulled tens of millions of views anyway. The six-hour Netflix…

Mark Grantt September 5, 2026

Technology

Gemini Voice Comes to Gmail, Docs, and Keep, and the Best Part Costs Extra

Google switched on voice AI across three of its most-used apps this week, and the rollout reveals more about Google's strategy than any press release does. Gmail Live, Docs Live,…

Mark Grantt September 5, 2026

Smartphones

Xiaomi’s 18 Fold Is the Most Interesting Foldable You Can’t Actually Buy

Foldables have spent five years converging on the same tall, narrow book shape, and I'd stopped expecting anyone to question it. Then Xiaomi put a cherry red 18 Fold on…

Morman Tebolo September 4, 2026

Entertainment

Tirelo Kale’s Lobola Is Done, But Mzansi Is Fighting About the Wrong Thing

On Thursday, 3 September 2026, Mpumelelo "Sbindi" Mseleku finally paid lobola for Tirelo Kale, the mother of his son Singabakho and his partner since around 2021. Tirelo confirmed it herself…

Kevin Orwa September 4, 2026

Entertainment

Gloria Steinem’s Death Brought Polite Tributes and a Fight She Would Have Enjoyed

The tributes landed within hours. Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Meghan Markle, Nancy Pelosi, each posting a polished paragraph about a trailblazer who changed everything. Then I did what I always do…

Martha Ottonan September 4, 2026

Technology

Astra Is a Genuine Leap, but OpenAI’s AGI Claim Outruns the Evidence

OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra yesterday, and before the launch briefing wrapped up, president Greg Brockman was calling it a generational leap into the AGI era. I've spent the past day…

Mark Grantt September 4, 2026

Electronics

South Africa’s 17% Smartphone Growth Is a Price Story, Not a Boom

Africa's smartphone market just posted its first decline in three years, and South Africa grew 17% straight through it. If you read that as a boom, I understand the instinct.…

Morman Tebolo September 3, 2026

Gaming

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s 8-Player Update Is Nintendo’s Weirdest Gift in Years

Nintendo shipped the strangest, most delightful update of the week with zero buildup. No Direct, no trailer, not even a tease. Version 4.0.0 of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe went live…

Mark Grantt September 3, 2026

Smartphones

The Poco F9 Ultra Is a Battery With a Phone Wrapped Around It

Poco launched the F9 Pro and F9 Ultra globally on September 1, and I've spent the two days since ignoring the camera talk and staring at two numbers. 6,330mAh on…

Morman Tebolo September 3, 2026

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