BBC: South Africa Violence Targets Soweto’s Foreign-Owned Shops – Three people have been killed in South Africa during violence on Wednesday targeting foreign-owned businesses in Soweto, police say. [bbc]

MTN Investors Lost Billions In Less Than An Hour – And This May Be The Final Straw – MTN’s latest massive setback in Nigeria – which wiped out almost R6 billion of its value in some 45 minutes – may be the final straw for the company to leave the country, an analyst says. [busins]

Putin’s Financial ‘Consigliere’ Is Trying to Make Elon Musk’s Dream Come True – A sanctioned Russian fund managed to invest in Hyperloop. And now, U.S. officials and lawmakers are taking a fresh look at the deal. [beast]

NYT: Trump Tried To Buy, Bury Decades Of Dirt From National Enquirer – President Donald Trump sought to buy all the dirt on him collected by the tabloid National Enquirer and its parent company American Media Inc., according to a new report. [cnn]

‘The Bicycle Guy’ — Kenyan President Forgets Boris Johnson’s Name – Uhuru Kenyatta stumbles over name of former UK foreign secretary. [pol]

Wonga Collapses After Surge Of Customer Complaints – Payday lender files for administration in UK while overseas units continue to trade. [ft]

Heineken Comes Out Firing After Accusations Of Fake Beer In SA – Beer drinkers were up in arms last week, when a video spread that cast doubt on their favourite beer’s authenticity. Heineken has now hit back. [here]

How Kenya Airways Is Eating Hopeless SAA’s Lunch – The Kenyan airline wants to hire 100 pilots a year and add 20 new routes in the next five years. [busday]

A Low-Profile, Chinese Handset Maker Has Taken Over Africa’s Mobile Market – The first African facility for the Chinese phone maker Transsion Holdings is tucked away in a nondescript area, down an unpaved road in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Here, several hundred employees sit in low plastic stools in neat assembly lines carefully handling various phone accessories. [qz]

Princess Diana Had A Burka Designed For Her 1986 Visit To Saudi Arabia – Princess Diana asked her wedding dress designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel to come up with. [mirror]

The US Open Has Apologized For Penalizing Alizé Cornet For Taking Off Her Shirt – “We regret that a Code Violation was assessed to Ms. Cornet yesterday,” the organization said in a statement. [buzz]

Gary Kirsten Lands Major IPL Coaching Gig – Former Proteas batsman and coach Gary Kirsten has been appointed as head coach and mentor of the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, Royal Challenges Bangalore (RCB). [s24]

This Is Our Favourite SA Booze Delivery App – Ever arrived empty handed to a dinner party? Ever wanted to throw or attend that last minute braai, but the shops are closed? There’s an app for that. [here]

Gerard Depardieu Faces Investigation Over Alleged Rapes And Sex Assaults – French star Gerard Depardieu is facing a probe over alleged “rapes and sexual assaults”, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday. [tele]

Jamie Oliver: ‘We Had Simply Run Out Of Cash’ – The celebrity chef on a year of redundancies, restaurant closures and public criticism. [ft]

Extreme Vespas In Indonesia – In Pictures – Hundreds of Indonesians gather in Java each year to celebrate their love of the world-renowned Italian scooter – and many customise their rides to resemble punk mutants straight out of Mad Max. [guardian]

27 Meaningful Tattoos For Introverts – Tattoos not only make a style statement — they can also reflect someone’s personality. [mash]

Ariana Grande’s Massive New Anime Tattoo Covers Most Of Her Forearm – God is a woman, and she certainly has a fondness for anime. [huff]

New York Renamed ‘Jewtropolis’ In Map hack – New York City was briefly renamed “Jewtropolis” in mapping software used by social media site Snapchat and others. [bbc]

Ed Sheeran Will Play Himself In Danny Boyle’s Untitled Beatles-Inspired Movie – The film focuses on a singer-songwriter who wakes up one day as the only person who remembers the Fab Four. [nme]

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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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