Author: Akhram Mohamed

South Africa’s smartphone crime wave is evolving. Learn how Android’s hidden security features can help protect your money, identity, and data.

The HONOR 600 Pro is premium, powerful, and unapologetically iPhone-inspired. But after a week of daily use, it’s surprisingly hard to put down.

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There’s no point pretending otherwise. The first thing you notice about the HONOR 600 Pro isn’t the AI features, the camera system, or even the massive battery. It’s the fact that this phone looks very familiar. Pick it up for the first time and the comparisons to Apple’s iPhone lineup hit almost immediately. They’ve even opted for an orange colourway. It has a camera bump reminiscent of the iPhones camera “plateau”, flat edges with a polished frame and ultra-thin bezels. The overall silhouette sort of screams Apple. HONOR clearly knows exactly what aesthetic it’s chasing here, and it works if you dont…

I was just trying to be a productive entrepreneur, managing some admin for one of my companies, when Safari decided to pull the handbrake and scream, “This Connection Is Not Private.” That is a hell of a greeting when you’re trying to navigate a government-linked business platform. The site in question is BizPortal, the digital bridge to the CIPC. When a browser tells you a site “may be impersonating bizportal.gov.za” and warns you against touching it with a ten-foot pole, your gut sinks. This is where we handle company registrations, director changes, and sensitive compliance data, so naturally it’s the…

Is the Vezopay payment ring worth it? We unpack its practicality and the debate around its necessity in modern payments.

Introducing: The Diary Of A Recovering Suit This is the first installment in a regular series documenting the shift, the spin, and the soul of the smartphone industry—viewed through the lens of two decades in the tech industry and a newfound life on the other side of the stage. For many years, I was the executive in the spotlight, often peddling the corporate narrative with a practiced smile. It’s a background that gives me a superpower most tech journalists don’t have: I can spot the marketing B.S. before the presenter even clicks the first slide. I know how the boerewors…

The thing about Elon Musk and Sam Altman is that they both speak the language of “saving the world,” but they pronounce the words differently. In a U.S courtroom this week, that linguistic gap turned into a full-scale forensic excavation of a friendship gone sour. As Musk took the stand, one can only imagine the clinical air of the room felt heavy with the specific kind of resentment that only exists between two people who once shared a bunk bed in the metaphorical house of the future. He wasn’t just there to argue about contract law; he was there to…

The South African smartphone market is a high stakes theatre, where brands fight for relevance with the intensity of a political campaign and HONOR has spent most of the last 2 years on a calculated and relentless offensive. When I first got my hands on the HONOR 600 Lite a week ago, the reaction was immediate and instinctive. It felt, for the lack of a better word, “proper”. Not just good for the price or impressive for a Lite model, but genuinely refined in a way that suggested HONOR had figured something out. But first impressions are often just curated…