Broadcast excerpt·FRI, 04 SEPT 2026 · 06:45:15–06:46:47 SAST
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Is disappearing, right? More people are using their phones now to transact, not even their cards. Yeah. And I noticed that, I mean, it's, it's, I noticed that the other day because you no longer carry cash or change to just give somebody, right? And a really like poor person doesn't have a phone, so how are you supposed to tip them, etc. I think for me, I think we take for granted just the simple service of WhatsApp. And I know that sounds absolutely
Absolutely crazy. But in Africa, WhatsApp is one of the one the African continent is the biggest user of WhatsApp. So abroad, nobody really uses WhatsApp. But to be able to conduct business and how many people conduct business over WhatsApp, I mean, you get a business account, etc. People can book through you, all that kind of stuff. And I think if you had to speak to somebody whose children might left the country maybe 10, 20 years ago, and how hard it was to get hold of them and phone them or how expensive.
Of it was as to now being able to just WhatsApp anybody anywhere, maybe even like Antarctica. And I think we take for granted the messaging service. And it's as basic as not having to type, if you wanted to type hello, and the parents driving who are our age will remember this. If you wanted to type hello on a phone in the 90s, you had to be like GH, which was the number six. Yes, of course. And then you had to go DE, and then you had to go JKL, JKL.
MNO, and you were pushing the button however many times to get, and how literally it's just become like second nature, and we've forgotten it. Addictive text as well. Gosh. And just in terms of our industry in the newsroom, I mean, I know I'm showing my age here, but we used to get our sports copy via FACS from SAPA, who would send us the printout and the match report of the day. And then you would write it from that as opposed to how easy it's become now. Gosh. Let's talk about the world of sports. What are we seeing?
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