Black Farmers Selling Farms Back To Previous White Owners – South Africa’s minister of land reform says black farmers have resold nearly 30 percent of the white farmland bought for them by the government – often back to the previous white owners. Minister Gugile Nkwinti announced the startling indicator of failure at Wednesday’s launch of a long-delayed government policy paper to revitalize land distribution plans. [forbes]

ANC Won’t Allow Public Interest Defence – Journalists will face up to 10 years in prison under new secrecy laws if they publish classified information without first asking the government to declassify it. The ANC told parliament’s committee debating the Protection of Information Bill yesterday that it would not allow a “public-interest defence” to be written into the bill as that would place journalists in a class of their own. [timeslive]

Gaddafi Son Negotiates Surrender: Rebels – A man claiming to be Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam is vowing to fight to the death and says nobody will surrender. He also said he was speaking from the suburbs outside Tripoli and insisted his father is fine. [huffpo]

Never Seen Before Jackie Kennedy Interviews To Air – An ABC special with never-before-heard interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy will air Sept. 13. Viewers will hear the former first lady speak with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. about life in the White House and with her husband, President John F. Kennedy. The recordings were made months after the president’s 1963 assassination and sealed until now. [associated]

Tupac’s Homies Reckon They Smoked His Ashes – Apparently members of Tupac Shakur‘s old group, The Outlawz, smoked the cremated ashes of their fallen hero after his funeral. Yes, we are shocked by this news, as well. One of the members confirmed to VLADTV that they did, indeed, puff-puff and pass a marijuana joint filled with 2Pac’s remains in memory of the late rapper’s song ‘Black Jesus,’ in which he requested that his ashes be smoked after his death. [popcrush]

UK Sends Unfrozen Cash To Libya – The RAF has flown £140m of Libyan banknotes (280m Libyan dinars) to Libya after an assets freeze aimed at Col Muammar Gaddafi was lifted. The cash, printed in the UK, is the first tranche of £950m that will be handed to Libya’s Central Bank. A Whitehall official said the money should be available for cash machines and banks in Libya very quickly. [bbc]

Spanish Town Celebrates Tomatina Festival [Pics] – This Spanish town launched its internationally famous tomato food fight, the “Tomatina”, with the participation of about 45,000 young people from all over the world who faced off against everyone else in the narrow streets with 120 tonnes of the ripe red vegetables for ammunition. [ibnlive]

Steven Segal Accused Of Killing Puppy And Raiding House With A Tank – Jesus Llovera, a man Steven and his Maricopa County Sherriff’s Department pals thought was running an illegal cockfighting ring on his property, has threatened to sue the Half-Past Dead star for raiding his house with a tank before euthanising 100 of his roosters and his 11-month old puppy. I’m going to leave it at that. Click the link to find out more. [holymoly]

Mobile Internet Use Nearing 50% – Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections, according to the Office for National Statistics. 45% of people surveyed said they made use of the net while out and about, compared with 31% in 2010. The most rapid growth was among younger people, where 71% of internet-connected 16 to 24-year-olds used mobiles. [bbc]

Mel Gibson Pays $750,000 To Settle Custody Case – Mel Gibson will pay $750,000 to his ex-girlfriend and continue to provide housing and financial support for their young daughter to resolve a bitter, long-running legal fight, a judge said Wednesday. Gibson’s payments to Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva are dependent on a lasting truce. [yahoo]

Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur? – There’s no shortage of articles that examine the qualities of a successful entrepreneur. But after working with countless entrepreneurs and business owners over the years, Nellie Akalp has a slightly different take. Succeeding as an entrepreneur is more than just great ideas and execution. [mashable]

Ralph Lauren Takes Out All Advertising In New York Times App – Polo Ralph Lauren (not to be confused with Polo South Africa which is not Ralph Lauren and offers a FAR lesser, abysmal service) has bought a solo sponsorship of The New York Times iPad app during September, providing free access to five sections and running ads that, among other things, will provide the only live video of its Fashion Week runway show on Sept. 15. [adage]

General Patraeus Retires, With A Warning – An era in the American military came to an end on Wednesday when David H. Petraeus, the most influential general of his generation, retired with a 17-gun salute and a warning that coming budget cuts should not lead to the “hollow Army” that occurred after the Vietnam War. [nytimes]

Financial Times Pulls It’s App From Apple Store After Row – The Financial Times has pulled its iPad and iPhone apps from Apple’s App Store after losing a battle to keep control of customer data obtained through subscriptions. Apple has recently begun to insist that subscriptions to apps that it hosts must go through its own store, giving Apple ownership of valuable data about customers. [reuters]

US Blocks AT&T $39 Billion Purchase Of T-Mobile – The U.S. government on Wednesday sued to block AT&T Inc’s $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, citing concerns it will harm competition in the wireless market and lead to higher prices. The surprise move, which was the biggest antitrust challenge yet by the Obama administration, caught the carriers by surprise and if successful would end AT&T’s move to unseat Verizon Wireless as the No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier. [newsdaily]

Thursday Is “Vote For Table Mountain” Day – Table Mountain is at the bottom of the final 28, in the running to be one of the new seven wonders of nature. Table Mountain needs YOU to vote at least every Thursday. We need 30 million votes to make the final 7.  You can vote on the website or by SMSing the word ‘table’ to 34874 (SMS cost R2). You can vote once on the website and as many times as you want on SMS. come on, gang, let’s do this thing!  [votefortablemountain.com]

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