1BANTU News - Cape Town

1BANTU is a Zimbabwean community-powered, collaborative journalism news website which draws content from its users and syndicated content from mainstream sources. 1BANTU was launched on Jan 1, 2017, as a commentary outlet, blog, and an alternative to news aggregators and state media.

The site (1bantu.com) offers news, satire, blogs, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, culture and Zimbabwean local news.

1BANTU preserves independence, integrity and freedom from bias in the gathering and dissemination of information and news. The organisation pledges to be fearless in the pursuit of truth and to be the voice for the voiceless.

There are many news agencies based in Zimbabwe. Way too many. Ironically, considering their topic is  

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communications, most of them are unreadable thanks to a combination of poor content and bad design. 1BANTU has a neat and simplistic design. The content is well curated and summarised.

Unlike many news sites in Zimbabwe, 1BANTU is optimised for mobile users. Research shows that the number of mobile internet users has now exceeded the number of desktop internet users.

Google recently made an upgrade to their algorithm that favoured sites that were optimised for mobile users and that penalised sites that were not optimised for mobile users. Some sites lost as much as 46.6% of their search traffic due to not having a mobile-optimised site while some gained as much as 30.1% traffic by having a mobile-friendly website.

1BANTU articles load relatively faster than articles from competitors. Research shows that a one second delay in website loading time will result in a 7% loss in conversion, and that slow websites cost the U.S. e-commerce market $500 billion annually. Not just this, but you’ll also lose 40% of visitors to your website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. If your website is slow, then you’re already losing half your visitors. Make your website faster and watch your traffic increase significantly.

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