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Cape Town To Host Heineken Cup Game: Saracens and Biarritz – The Cape Town Stadium is expected to be announced as the venue for the Heineken Cup clash between Saracens and Biarritz. Recently retired Bok captain John Smit joined Saracens after the World Cup and could be in action alongside several other Springboks currently plying their trade with the English club. It will be the first time that a Heineken Cup game will be hosted outside of Europe. [news24]

Malema’s Bog Day – Julius Malema’s future in the ANC will be made known today, but the youth league leader will not be there for the announcement – he will be writing an exam instead. The ANC’s national disciplinary committee is said to have reached its verdict yesterday. [timeslive]

Eddie Murphy Pulls Out Of Oscars – Eddie Murphy has bowed out of his gig as host of the Academy Awards, following pal Brett Ratner’s decision to leave the show as producer because of an uproar over a gay slur. The news of Murphy’s departure came Wednesday, a day after Ratner quit as producer of the Feb. 26 show. [csmon]

Blackberry Loses Google’s Gmail App – Google Inc. will stop offering its popular Gmail application for BlackBerrys later this month, delivering another blow to the device’s maker Research in Motion Ltd., which is trying to prevent defections to handsets that operate on software provided by Apple Inc. and Google. Die, Blackberry… DIE! [wallstreetjournal]

ANC Party Will Cost Over R100 Million – As we get closer to 2012, when the ANC centenary celebrations will take off in huge way, more and more details about what is planned are starting to emerge. On Tuesday, ANC chairwoman Baleka Mbete and spokesman Jackson Mthembu filled in some of the details. It’s going to be a lo-o-ong year for political reporters. [dailymaverick]

Adobe Kills Flash Plugin Development – Adobe announced via a press release today that it would cease development of the Flash Player for smartphones and tablets, and would shift its focus to HTML5 support for those devices. This decision is due at least in part to Apple’s refusal to allow Flash on iOS, making HTML5 the de-facto standard for developers wishing to target the highest number of platforms possible with the least amount of development effort. [anandtech]

London Student March Draws Thousands – The police were out in force as thousands of students marched through central London yesterday. Some 4,000 officers were on duty, as demonstrators marched peacefully in a protest against higher tuition fees and “privatisation” in universities. [bbc]

Yahoo, Microsoft And AOL Join Forces – Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp and AOL Inc have set up an advertising partnership as Google and Facebook’s online ad dominance grows. The alliance, announced on Tuesday, allows each of the companies to sell each other’s unsold premium advertising inventory — known as display ads — by early next year. [reuters]

HIV Blocking Anal-Gel Has Been Invented – ​In the worldwide race to cure HIV, researchers out of Los Angeles have made some of the biggest recent breakthroughs. By late 2009, UCLA had discovered human blood stem cells could be used to fight HIV-infected cells. And by this August, USC professor Pin Lang had created a virus that could do the same. [laweekly]

Lichtenstein Sells For Record $43 Million – Roy Lichtenstein’s 1961 painting of a man looking through a peephole sold for $43.2 million last night in New York, one of 13 records set at an auction of contemporary art by Christie’s International. As actor Leonardo DiCaprio looked on in blue jeans and blue baseball cap, the pop artist’s “I Can See the Whole Room!… And There’s Nobody in It!” helped London-based Christie’s reach a total of $247.6 million. [bloomberg]

Mike Tyson Plays Herman Cain In Parody Ad – Is Mike Tyson actually turning into a comedian? First there was his roast appearance and now this: He’s been cast as Herman Cain in Funny or Die’s new election season parody series “Live Funny or Die.” [newser]

Organisation Calls For Ban On Blue Light Brigades – The Justice Project South Africa is petitioning the ban of blue lights for everyone except marked emergency and enforcement vehicles, it said on Wednesday. The abuse of blue lights by so-called “blue light brigades” had raised public anger the organisation’s chairperson Howard Dembovsky said. [mail&guardian]

Michael Jackson Deathbed To Be Auctioned – Hundreds of items from the Holmby Hills home of late pop legend Michael Jackson will be offered up for auction next month, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. A list of the items includes the bed where Jackson died, as well as a chalkboard in the home’s kitchen where one of his children wrote, “I (heart) Daddy. SMILE, it’s for free.” [latimes]

Canon And Red Push The Limits Of Digital Cinema Photography – A new breed of professional-grade video cameras is coming, and could have the power to turn cinema on its ear. Two rigs announced last week — one from Canon, the other from Red — are incredibly small, highly customizable, and relatively inexpensive. [thedaily]

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