SABC NEWS

Stay up-to-date with SABC News for new stories, comprehensive event coverage, and breaking news that shape South Africa and the world. As South Africa’s leading broadcaster, SABC News commits to giving you the first and only word- timely, accurate, and unbiased reporting across a broad subject matter, covering politics, business, sports, entertainment, and social issues.

We have professional journalists who operate day and night to ensure that you receive news about current affairs-the most reliable information right at your fingertips. In our pursuit of quality journalism, SABC News provides comprehensive multimedia content across a range of topics of great interest to you.

What is different at SABC News is the priority given to deep storytelling that goes beyond headlines. Within these stories, you understand through thoughtful analysis and interviews with experts and perspectives from people from all walks of life as you try to make sense of much of what is going on around you. The new platform will offer exclusive interviews with those leaders in politics and movers and shakers in the world of business and culture, giving you a first-hand view of the forces that are shaping our society.

Whether you’re at home, on the go, or in a busy world seeking reliable information, SABC News is now available 24/7. It’s our website and mobile app; it’s made to be user-friendly: You get the news that you need instantly, whenever you want it and wherever you are.

Be a part of our vibrant community of informed citizens: read stories that drive South Africa forward. Keep in touch with SABC News on social media. Share your opinions, voice your concerns, and connect with people who care about the future of our nation.

Partnership with Moonstack: commitment to excellence

To leverage its online presence and make browsing more user-friendly, SABC News teamed up with Moonstack, a prominent software development company that specializes in making highly efficient and scalable solutions for the digital world. This association was considered to modernise the online landscape of SABC News with current features that do provide easy access and navigation along with suitable content reach.

Overcoming Development Challenges

Developing this new website needed to clear the initial challenges of getting it ready for being loaded with high traffic. The challenging situation was to ensure it could deliver the most up-to-date news break events, as in other scenarios where high volume traffic was to be expected. By optimisation by Moonstack’s team, server performance and scalability would have been ensured not to cause downtimes or slow loading even when the servers are in peak hours.

Another was not to meddle with the integrity and style of SABC News’s brand in its pursuit for making place new functionalities. Moonstack tackled it by coming up with a design that really resonated well with its brand’s identity and therefore would not in any way disfigure the visual appeal of the website or the user-friendly experience. Thorough research was conducted and was understood from the users themselves and what they currently have with them thereby creating a platform meeting the diverse needs of all SABC News audiences.

Key Features Developed by Moonstack

Moonstack ensured that the new SABC News site implemented in it all the key features. These have maximized interaction by the user and delivery of content. They include:

• Responsive Design: Users can access news anywhere, anytime with the new site optimized for both desktop and mobile devices.
  
• Real-Time Updates: The users get all the updates in real time by incorporating a real-time news feed, ensuring they are always informed about the current events going around.
  
• Interactive Multimedia Content: Moonstack added multimedia content, which included videos and podcasts and infographics, to the news for enhancing its reading experience and engagement.
  
• Search Functionality: A powerful search feature allows users to swiftly locate articles and topics of interest, making it easier to use.

Fast and Efficient Delivery

Moonstack remained relatively outstanding in their pursuit of the delivery of fast results. Agile development methodologies enabled quick iteration with feedback from the team, which resulted in a speedy response to the changing needs at SABC News. This way, new features and developments were quickly launched into the website, hence making it current in terms of trends for news consumption.

SABC News is committed to providing customers with reliable news and information. The partnership with Moonstack has been important in facilitating these objectives while changing the digital landscape of SABC News from being a non-player in news delivery online to the role today of leading in the delivery of online news. This ensures that challenges were overcome to better implement innovative features so that SABC News effectively and efficiently caters to the public.