South Africa’s most important crime witness isn’t human. It’s a smartphone.
Every WhatsApp conversation, location ping, cloud backup and piece of metadata can help investigators reconstruct relationships that might once have remained hidden.
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Published: 24 July 2026
Source: TechCabal (Africa)
Category: News
Topics: Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 25 July 2026
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