Two hours of telephone calls a day is not ‘unlimited’, advertising regulator tells MTN

MTN's 'unlimited' claim was still live on its website on Monday morning.

Discovery Bank implies you'll get a free iPhone for switching, and that is misleading, an advertising regulator says

The Advertising Regulatory Boards has banned in-store ads that didn't point out the catch...

An advertisement for a South African supplement has been banned after it claimed to boost exam marks by 30%

SA Natural Products has been ordered to withdraw its ad for Bio-Strath.

Standard Bank has been banned from selling data plans using an ‘ambiguous’ advertisement with 'complicated mathematical reasoning'

An advertising regulator says the complex math needed to understand Standard Bank's data...

Steers just got a Burger King ad banned because of how it braais burger patties

South Africa's advertising regulator says Burger King makes it look as if it flame-grills...

Gautrain has been banned from claiming it can give Johannesburg to Pretoria commuters back 11 days of their lives every year to bake cakes or learn to ride motorcycles

An advertising regulator says the Gautrain's numbers are dodgy – and so is its logic.

Volkswagen says it is common to advertise cars nobody can actually buy – but SA’s advertising regulator is not impressed

The Advertising Regulatory Board accepts that "standard" vehicles are rare – but when a...

Coping with SA problems like loadshedding and potholes may call for sipping cocktails - but Tops has to pull 'binge drinking' ad

The Advertising Regulatory Board has ordered the Tops at Spar liquor chain to withdraw...