President Zuma Will Get A New Jet‚ Defence Minister Confirms – Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Wednesday confirmed that the Department of Defence would acquire a new presidential jet‚ but denied that there was a preferred option or that an amount of R4 billion had been mentioned. [tlive]
Nigerian President Buhari ‘Not Demanding’ Cameron Apology But Wants Assets Back – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says he is not demanding “any apology from anybody” after UK Prime Minister David Cameron labelled his country “fantastically corrupt”. [bbc]
Bombs Rock Baghdad In Deadliest Day Of Violence This Year, Killing 93 – ISIS has claimed responsibility for three separate bomb explosions that rocked Baghdad today, killing at least 93 people and injuring at least 165, making it the deadliest day of violence in the Iraqi capital this year, according to The Associated Press. [abc]
SA’s Nuclear Expansion To Go Ahead – South Africa will have connected 7 000 megawatts of renewable power to its grid by July, the energy minister said on Wednesday, and still plans to go ahead with a nuclear expansion plan. [iol]
Indian Woman In Her 70s Gives Birth To Healthy Baby Boy – Daljinder Kaur and her husband, 79, had Arman last month after two years of IVF treatment at a fertility clinic in Haryana. [guardian]
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Receptionist ‘Sent Home From PwC For Not Wearing High Heels’ – Nicola Thorp says she was told to leave on her first day at City accountancy firm after refusing to wear shoes with a 2-4in heel. [guardian]
CCTV Shows What Happens When A Hijacker Took On A MINI Driver [Video] – Johannesburg residents aren’t strangers to the dangers of hijacking, but it takes a real Jedi to know how to escape one. [here]
Gene Simmons Slams Prince’s ‘Pathetic’ Death – At 66, KISS frontman Gene Simmons has led a pretty spectacular life. He’s glad to be alive and never takes it for granted, he says to Newsweek, which is why he has such a problem with Prince’s death. [nyp]
Gene Simmons Apologizes for Saying Prince’s Death Was ‘Pathetic’ – Gene Simmons is clarifying his previous remarks about Prince’s death. Simmons apologized on Tuesday for multiple remarks he made about the late singer, who died last month at the age of 57. [abc]
Charcoal Versus Gas Braais – Let’s Have That Chat – There’s nothing quite as South African as the braai, but foreign influences are making us question just which way is better. [here]
Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy On Sunday That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity – On Sunday, May 8, Germany hit a new high in renewable energy generation. Thanks to a sunny and windy day, at one point around 1pm the country’s solar, wind, hydro and biomass plants were supplying about 55 GW of the 63 GW being consumed, or 87%. [qz]
The Great Instagram Logo Freakout Of 2016 – Instagram changed its logo on Wednesday and, predictably, the Internet was not entirely pleased. To put it bluntly: It freaked out. [nyt]
Breakthrough As Local Startup Makes Ordering Online From Overseas Affordable – Posting internationally to South Africa can take a toll on your wallet as well as your patience. Time you learnt how to beat the system then. [here]
Ronan Farrow Compares Woody Allen To Bill Cosby, Slams Media For Soft Treatment – Hours before his father, Woody Allen, opens the Cannes Film Festival with a new movie, NBC reporter Ronan Farrow has published a harsh critique of how the media has tiptoed over the years around the allegations that Allen sexually assaulted his daughter, Dylan, when she was a young girl. [washpo]
Know About The New Oxygen Health Craze? It’s All The Rage – Ozone is a powerful chemical, used by nature to rejuvenate the world we live in. So what can it do for your body? [here]
Malaysia: 2 More Pieces ‘Almost Certainly’ From Missing Plane MH370 – Malaysia’s government said Thursday that two more pieces of debris, discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, were “almost certainly” from Flight 370, bringing the total number of pieces believed to have come from the missing Malaysian jet to five. [nbc]
SABC To Play 90% Local Music – Public broadcaster the SABC says it will play 90% local music across its 18 radio stations from Thursday, May 12. The move follows what the state-owned company says has been “extensive” engagements with music representatives. [f24]
‘Disoriented’ Man Arrested Outside Taylor Swift’s NYC Apartment – A “disoriented” man stationed outside the pop star’s Tribeca apartment was arrested Tuesday evening, TMZ reported. The “Blank Space” singer was not home during the altercation. [nydn]
Brian May Claims He Is Being Forced Out Of His Home By ‘Selfish’ Neighbours – Who have turned his exclusive London street into a ‘hellhole’ with basement extensions. [dm]
From Top Gear to The Grand Tour – Jeremy Clarkson’s new car show for Amazon. [smh]
Bill Beaumont: World Rugby Elects Former England Captain As Chairman – The 64-year-old Rugby Football Union chairman was the unanimous choice of the World Rugby board, with ex-Argentina international Agustin Pichot taking the role of vice-chairman. [bbc]
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