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Reserve Bank Expects 200 More Days Of Load-Shedding This Year – The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) expects around 200 more days of load-shedding in 2024, despite the past few weeks having been power cut-free. [mybroadband]
Five Human Skeletons, Missing Hands And Feet, Found Outside House Of Nazi leader Hermann Göring – Archaeologists have unearthed the skeletons of five people, missing their hands and feet, at a former Nazi military base in Poland. [cnn]
Top Tips On How To Enjoy The Cape Town Jazz Festival – With days to go to the 21st staging of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF), organisers have issued a Tip list for Festinos and residents alike, to help everyone have the best jazz-fest experience over the weekend of 3 and 4 May 2024. [iol]
The Confessions Of Inigo Philbrick, Art Fraudster Extraordinaire – The wunderkind dealer personified the art market’s wealth-generating potential and its unregulated excesses—until he pleaded guilty as part of the largest art fraud in US history. Now out of prison and “wearing the scarlet letter,” Philbrick is searching for a second act. [vanityfair]
Meyerton Nominated For ‘Town of the Year’ – Meyerton was nominated for the magazine program Kwêla’s annual Town of the Year competition. [citizen]
The Rolling Stones Just Dropped A New Limited-Edition Rum – You can’t always get what you want, unless what you want is this bottle. [robbreport]
Inside The Columbia University Student Encampment — And The Crackdown – Columbia student journalists report on the pro-Palestine protest movement that roiled the university and ended in mass arrests. [rollingstone]
Insurance Crisis On The Cards For South Africa – Weather-related insurance claims are rising in South Africa, and global warming will likely worsen the situation. [businesstech]
Musicians Take To The Street Against Universal Music Over Unpaid Royalties – A number of South African creatives will descend upon the Universal Music offices in Rosebank at 11am on Tuesday 30 April to embark on the Artists Against Non-Payment of Royalties Protest. [citypress]
Body Armour, Bullet Proof Cars And A Flying Brick: Inside The Cape Town Club Security War – The witness in the trial of Mark Lifman, Jerome Booysen, Andre Naude and others testified about a plot to take back night club security from Nafiz Modack and Booysen’s brother Colin. [news24]
South African Firms Paid Ransomware Attackers An Average Of R17.9 Million – Sophos released its State of Ransomware in South Africa report for 2024, which shows that it is more expensive for companies to recover from ransomware attacks than to pay the extortion demand. [mybroadband]
Coke, Pepsi Top List In Global Count Of Plastic Waste – New study documents companies behind plastic waste across 5-year period. [cbc]
How Does The Ozempic Diet Compare In South Africa? – ‘Ozempic’s weight loss miracle’ has been doing the viral rounds on social media recently, with everyone from Oprah to Sharon Osbourne and Elon Musk apparently on the new ‘wonder drug’. [2ov]
‘Emotional’ Rafael Nadal Bows Out Of Madrid Open, Likely His Final Match In Spanish Capital – Rafael Nadal had an “emotional day” playing what was likely to be his final professional match in the Spanish capital, losing 7-5 6-4 against Czech Republic’s Jiří Lehečka at the Madrid Open. [cnn]
