Bad Brad Charged With Murder – Former Big Brother celebrity Brad Wood and four others are being charged with murder after four illegal miners were killed at the Aurora Grootvlei Mine in Springs. Wood was head of the security company used at the mine, owned by President Jacob Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma and former president Nelson Mandela’s grandson Zondwa Mandela. [news24]
Morgan Tsvangirai Sues Robert Mugabe – Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has filed a lawsuit against President Robert Mugabe, accusing him of breaching a power-sharing agreement that appears on the verge of collapse. The prime minister’s move is largely symbolic because of Zimbabwe’s slow justice system, but it shows how bad ties have become between the two men at the top of the southern African nation’s fragile “unity” government. [wallstreetjournall]
DSTV Mobile Launches – After years of testing — and fighting for a licence — pay-TV operator MultiChoice has finally launched a digital terrestrial television broadcasting service for mobile phones. The Naspers-owned company has launched DStv Mobile, the first commercial digital video broadcasting handheld service in SA. It’s launched the service in conjunction with e.tv, which shares a digital “mux” — a chunk of radio frequency spectrum — with MultiChoice. [techcentral]
Students Occupy Leaning Tower Of Pisa – Students occupied the Leaning Tower of Pisa and stormed into the Colosseum on Thursday as protests against government education reforms and cuts continued to cause mayhem in many parts of Italy.Around 20 students managed to get inside the tower and others formed a cordon outside to stop tourists entering the world-famous landmark. [ansa]
Argentine Man ‘Worse Than Fritzl’ – A 62-year-old man was arrested and charged with raping his daughter for more than 30 years and fathering 10 children with her, in a case “even worse” than that of Austria’s Josef Fritzl in 2008, a judge said on Wednesday. The man has been charged with repeated sexual abuse and incest, crimes which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, he added. [telegraph]
William & Kate To Hold Wedding Lotto – Prince William and Kate Middleton will invite members of the public to their April 29 wedding by holding a Willy Wonka-style “Golden Ticket” draw. Around 100 lucky winners will get to rub shoulders with royals and heads of state at the historic Westminster Abbey service. And Britain is ready for a nationwide knees-up after being given a holiday on Friday April 29 to celebrate the wedding. [thesun]
Agliotti Cleared Of Kebbles Murder – “Accused, stand,” said Judge Frans Kgomo at the end of a lengthy summary in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday. “You are consequently found not guilty and discharged in terms of Section 204,” said Kgomo. Kgomo granted Agliotti’s discharge application, effectively freeing him from the four charges against him including a count of murder for the 2005 Kebble slaying. [mail&guardian]
Jay Kay : Johnny Rotten Has A Problem – Jay Kay from Jamiroquai says he sat next to Johnny Rotten from The Sex Pistols on a flight to Australia and that it was the most horrible flight ever because Johnny couldn’t stop farting. Jay said: “He is a f****** nuisance. I was seated next to him on a flight and the whole trip he just kept farting. It was totally foul. He kept saying, ‘Oh, that wasn’t me’ or, ‘The meal smells a bit off, don’t you think?’ He drove me insane.” [theblem]
Online Breakup Service – Breakups are agonizing. For both the heartbreaker and the heartbroken, the let’s-not-do-this-anymore conversation is always awkward and very often painful, particularly for the person getting dumped. Bradley Laborman knows this because he has probably been through more breakups than anyone else. That’s because he runs the website iDUMP4U, which lets users hire a relationship hit man to do their dirty work for them. [time]
Wikileaks Is About To Publish The Motherload – The threat of publication of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables by a muckraker website has prompted a massive review of documents at U.S. embassies around the world, a U.S. official says. The official, who was not authorized to comment on the record, tells CNN that the State Department has, for months, been intensively dealing with the potential impact of the release of documents that WikiLeaks just recently hinted it will publish. [cnn]
Kanye West Blasts Taylor Swift.. Again – Why would Taylor Swift ever stand up for Kanye West?! Leave it to the ego-inflated rapper to insist, during an on-stage rant this week, that the country cutie should have had Kanye’s back after his infamous 2009 VMA outburst: “Taylor never came to my defense in any interview and [she] rode the wave, and rode it and rode it!” he said during a rambling onstage rant at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Weird.. [eonline]
Taylor Swift Is Always Genuinely Surprised – From Grammys and MTV Video Music Awards to pretty much every country music award ever bestowed, the singer-songwriter is no stranger to winning major prizes.However, a video compiled by VH1 (via TheFabLife.com) of Swift’s big wins shows just the opposite — the ‘Speak Now’ songstress seems very surprised when a presenter calls her name … every single time it happens. Gotta watch this! [popeater]
South Korea Defense Minister Resigns – South Korea’s defence minister has resigned amid criticism of his handling of North Korea’s shelling of an island near their disputed maritime border. President Lee Myung-bak will name Kim Tae-young’s successor on Friday. Tuesday’s barrage left two South Korean civilians and two marines dead, and sent regional tensions soaring. [bbc]
The World’s Most Expensive Bottle OF Tequila – Mexican distiller Hacienda La Capilla, has unveiled a 1.3 litter tequila bottle called “The Diamond Sterling” on Monday.The bottle, made of 2.3-kilogram layer of platinum and over 4,000 diamonds totaling 328 carats, is valued at around $3.5 million. [luxuo]
Get Your Drive Hard – If you’re like me you’re continuously running out of hard drive space. But I’ve sorted that out for now, with a 1TB portable hard drive for only R985. You see, the OneDayOnly guys understand your problems and have cleverly devised a plan: a continuous flow of hard drives to support your habit of not throwing a single Tuesday Tab away. Check their site for more. [onedayonly]
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