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Mon, September 30th 2013, 10:20 · Nanine Steenkamp

Jordaan joins Mxit board

Michael Jordaan, former First National Bank (FNB) chief executive officer (CEO), has joined South African chat app Mxit as chairman. → Read more
Fri, September 20th 2013, 16:30 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mxit confirms Swart as CEO, set to focus on youth

South African chat app Mxit has appointed Francois Swart as chief executive officer (CEO) on a permanent basis, and revealed an increased focus on youth as a powerful tool of reaching out to the community. → Read more
Wed, September 11th 2013, 18:00 · Nanine Steenkamp

Lack of transformation, cultural diversity keeps Africa back – Mxit

Mxit feels there is a lack of cultural diversity and transformation in the development of African mobile products, keeping the mobile commerce industry from excelling. → Read more
Tue, September 10th 2013, 19:30 · Richard Cutcher

Facebook and Twitter show rapid growth in SA, Mxit declines

Facebook has overtaken Mxit as South Africa’s most popular social network, increasing its user base by 2.6 million in the past 12 months. → Read more
Fri, September 6th 2013, 15:00 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mxit and FunDza aid African literacy increase

South African social mobile app Mxit and the FunDza Literacy Trust have collaborated to promote a culture of reading amongst South African youth. → Read more
Wed, August 7th 2013, 15:30 · Nanine Steenkamp

Rape Crisis to launch on Mxit

South African anti-rape trust Rape Crisis will be releasing its information portal on local chat app Mxit, adding to the existing MySafety app. → Read more
Fri, August 2nd 2013, 06:00 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mxit launches live soccer

South African chat app Mxit has partnered with global sports match analysis company Amisco Group to give subscribers access to mobile-based match viewing. → Read more
Mon, July 29th 2013, 09:38 · Nanine Steenkamp

ANC maximises on Mxit campaigns

Ruling South African party the African National Congress (ANC) is experiencing success with almost half a million Mxit app subscribers, aiming to increase mobile election campaigns. → Read more
Fri, July 12th 2013, 13:18 · Brandon Gregory

Social networks reducing voice minutes, not VoIP – Mxit

Increased access to social networks is the driver of fewer airtime minutes being used, Peter Matthaei, vice president of research and development for Mxit, has said. → Read more
Wed, July 10th 2013, 13:02 · Tom Jackson

Mxit launches mobile music service

Mxit has partnered with Mondia Media to launch a South African mobile music service, providing users with cost effective and legal music downloads via Mxit. → Read more
Wed, July 3rd 2013, 13:32 · Nanine Steenkamp

LoveLife launched on Mxit

Leading South African HIV prevention organisation LoveLife has launched on chat app Mxit to provide mobile-based counselling services to youth members. → Read more
Tue, July 2nd 2013, 12:59 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mxit most popular network in SA

Mxit is more popular than Facebook in South Africa, making the chat app’s home country one of the few which does not comply with general Facebook world domination statistics, a social media report has revealed. → Read more
Tue, May 21st 2013, 12:11 · Nanine Steenkamp

ANC launches Mxit app, hopes for higher engagement

South African ruling party the African National Congress (ANC) today launched its Mxit app for the Western Cape (WC) public to enhance interconnection on mobile platform. → Read more
Fri, March 15th 2013, 11:01 · Nanine Steenkamp

uBi GAMING to launch on Mxit today

South African startup ubiquitous GAMING (uBi GAMING) will release one of their original games on the Mxit platform today, the first of three to be launched by June 2013. → Read more
Fri, March 8th 2013, 15:55 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mxit 6.3 reaches one million downloads on BB

South African social app Mxit reached one million downloads on BlackBerry phones yesterday (Thursday, March 7) 84 days after its release. → Read more
Mon, March 4th 2013, 08:49 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mxit encourages app building

South African chat network Mxit has encouraged developers to build more apps for the platform as the company concentrates on stability of core development of the chat service as a key feature. → Read more
Fri, March 1st 2013, 15:50 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mxit confident about smartphone future

South African chat app Mxit does not regard increasing smartphone use as a threat to its existing platform success in the country, though it acknowledges this reality as a growing challenge. → Read more
Thu, February 28th 2013, 09:37 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mxit Launch, a content management community tool revealed

South African social chat app Mxit revealed a new content management page, similar to Wordpress, expected to launch tomorrow, March 1, at the 27dinner in Cape Town last night (Wednesday). → Read more
Thu, February 28th 2013, 07:27 · Tefo Mohapi

Mxit in partnership with Junk Mail

Mxit has entered into a partnership with Junk Mail classifieds which will see the latter take over and re-launch the Mxit classified platform. → Read more
Mon, February 18th 2013, 10:23 · Tefo Mohapi

Mxit hosts first social media film premiere

A film about legendary ex-gang boss Ernie ‘Lastig’ Solomon will be the first full-length feature film to premiere exclusively on a social network today. → Read more