Ramaphosa Takes ‘Extraordinary Step’ Over Fuel Price‚ VAT – In two weeks’ time‚ President Cyril Ramaphosa will announce economic measures to help South Africans deal with rising fuel prices and the recent VAT increase. [tlive]
Zuckerberg Tops Buffett To Become World’s Third-Richest Person – Facebook Inc co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world’s third-richest person, further solidifying technology as the most robust creator of wealth. [bustim]
Trump’s North Korea Policy Just Collapsed – Pyongyang, by humiliating Secretary of State Pompeo, exposed the fallacy at the heart of American policy. [beast]
Justin Bieber Engaged To Hailey Baldwin – Justin Bieber popped the question to Hailey Baldwin Saturday night … and she said yes!!! Two eyewitnesses who claim to have seen the proposal go down tell us it happened at a resort in the Bahamas. [tmz]
Wimbledon Urged To Move Final Amid Warnings That World Cup Clash Will Leave Stadium ‘Empty’ – Wimbledon is under pressure to reschedule its men’s final amid fears of 15,000 empty seats if England reach the World Cup Final, which is being held at the same time. [tele]
Thailand Cave Rescue Begins As Four Of 12 Boys Freed In Day Of Drama – Eight remain trapped in cave in Mae Sai, with rescue operation to resume on Monday. [guardian]
Something To Consider Before All The Mandela Day Stories Next Week – July 18 is just around the corner, and that means the Mandela Day stories are coming. [here]
Metro Cop Amongst 23 Arrested For Cash-In-Transit Crimes – A female Tshwane metro police officer is among 23 people arrested this week for various crimes related to cash-in-transit heists, the SA Police Service said on Sunday. [n24]
Apple Music Has Reportedly Overtaken Spotify In U.S. Subscribers – Apple Music has reportedly surpassed Spotify in total number of U.S. subscribers. [mash]
Quadruplets Beat Odds At Tygerberg Hospital – It was an “exceptional occurrence in any health system”. That is how the Western Cape Government described a 22-year-old mother from Khayelitsha giving birth to healthy quadruplets at the Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town on Friday. [tlive]
Court Papers Allege Conspiracy, Theft, And Christian Video As Tekkie Town Founders Tried To Force Steinhof To Sell – Things have gone from bad to worse in the rapidly-deteriorating relationship between JSE listed Steinhof Africa Retail (STAR) and the former management of discount shoe chain Tekkie Town – who now stand accused of attempting corporate sabotage as part of a plot to force a fire sale of the business back to its founders. [busins]
SA’s Biggest Bodyboarding Competition Kicks Off – The 2018 edition of South Africa’s premier bodyboarding competition will see some very brave souls hitting the waves at Cape Columbine. [here]
AirPods Could Revolutionize What It Means To Be Hard Of Hearing – They’re one of Apple’s newer products that have an innovative design, are functional, and have the potential to change the way we communicate. In the near term, they could revolutionize how people with hearing loss interact with the world. [qz]
Generation Wealth: How The Modern World Fell In Love With Money – Lauren Greenfield has spent years photographing the world’s richest people. Now she’s made a documentary on society’s obsession with extreme wealth – and its cost to us all. [guardian]
Alec Baldwin Jokes About Wife Amid #MeToo – Actor Alec Baldwin’s history of questionable comments about the #MeToo movement. [cnn]
Japan Just Executed The Leaders Of An LSD-Fueled Doomsday Science Cult – The wild story of Aum Shinrikyo, a religious cult steeped in science and high technology that carried out a deadly sarin attack in Tokyo in 1995. [vice]
Hundreds Of Naked Australians Brave The Cold For Mass Nude Photoshoot – Hundreds have ditched their robes in Melbourne, Australia for an epic mass nude photoshoot. [mash]
New Bruce Lee Bio Debunks Myths About The ‘Kung Fu Jesus’ – Bruce Lee was training a friend one day when he did something unexpected. [cnn]
This Cat With A Human-Like Face Is Here To Spook And Bewilder You – Step right up, boys and girls: it’s the cat with the creepy human face. [mash]
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So These Guys Are Apparently The Top SA Winery Of The Past 10 Years – You’ve tasted Chocolate Block, right? Of course you have, so make sure you arrive at every dinner party with a bottle of the best. [boekenhout]
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