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Parents Guide to MXit available today

ByRamon Thomas 02/11/200611/06/2025

The “Parents Guide to MXit” is now available from today. This concise guide is made available at no cost to all concerned parents or educators, who may have sleepless nights about children using MXit, the popular chat application that enables communication on cell phones at the fraction of SMS costs. Ramon Thomas, online behaviour expert…

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Ignorant Parents in South Africa blames MXIT for exposing Youth to Pornography

ByRamon Thomas 28/08/200614/06/2025

People who are accusing MXIT are likely not even using MXIT. I’ve interviewed Herman Heunis, and I’ve also been using it for a few months now. It’s a text-based system for instant messaging or chatting in semi-real time. And whatever explicit messages are being sent are just words. And it’s not more or less damaging…