The McLaren P1 has just sped around the famed Nurburgring in less than seven minutes. If that doesn’t strike you as newsworthy – consider that seven minutes around the 12.9-mile track equals an average speed of about 180km/h.
Elytte Barbour, 22, and Miranda Barbour, 18, wanted to seal their bond of love by murdering a person together. Either that or, they’re genuinely a couple murderous sadists.
While Mandela certainly deserves the amount of praise he has received in the past few days, there is also plenty of credit that is due to those people who were behind him all the time. People like Zelda La Grange.
Tata Madiba is being honoured by the Western Cape provincial government with laser projections that will be shone onto Table Mountain this week.
The River Jordan is being dried up for use in irrigation, which has led the Dead Sea’s water levels to drop by about a metre every 12 months. The middle-eastern nations have reacted quickly, and signed an agreement that might just bring the Dead Sea back.
Google has just dropped their very own DIY-street-view-tool that lets you contribute to their global network of images with your own camera.
The editorial staff over at The Cape Times are becoming increasingly worried that their editorial independence is under threat. It all started when Cape Times editor, Alide Dasnois, was fired unexpectedly by the paper’s new owners, Sekunjalo Independent Media.
With these Solar Fairy Lights, Groupies can enjoy the possibility of lighting up lives and creating a superb ambience. The lights are eco-friendly and recharge by use of solar power, which means no external electricity is required. The Solar lights come with a built-in controller making it perfect for lighting up gardens, gazebos and balconies. […]
If you aren’t in Johannesburg, you can stream Nelson Mandela’s memorial service at the FNB Stadium today. If you are in J0hannesburg, get yourself to the stadium ASAP. Transport is free and easy – check out the details, here. And here’s the official programme, in case you missed it earlier. Here’s eNCA’s live coverage, if […]
We’ve found this one knocking around in the basement – it’s Madiba’s first-ever TV interview.
It was oddly comforting how on 6 December, not even the most pugnacious troll reared his twisted face. For once, Twitter seemed to unite gracefully. Until people discovered the account of the Westboro Baptist Church
It’s a big event, and with big events come some very specific details. Wise up here.
You may remember in February this year we told you about Titus, the toddler capable of beating you at basketball. Titus is back with his third trick shot video, and apart from featuring cameos from Bradley Cooper and Channing Tatum, the video reaffirms once more that this tiny child is a better athlete than you. […]
Summer is most definitely here, and with the office shutdown just over a week away, and the prospect of visiting relatives looming, you will absolutely consider visiting a wine farm in the next month. And if you don’t know about this place, you’ll probably join the herd of schmucks trekking for over an hour beyond the boerewors curtain.
Josh Shapiro always knew he wanted to make as much money as possible. Which is why, when other people his age were floundering, he was raking in thousands of dollars every day.
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Eish. We kinda knew that stuff like this was on its way. An article, entitled “Mandela’s Death Highlights How Messed Up South Africa Is Now” was recently published on Business Insider.
Sure, we have those coffee-makers that grind, brew and spit out coffee at the push of a button, but what if we really wanted to roast our beans too?
Lindsay Lohan escaped from her Miami hotel on Saturday night when the cops tried to interview her after Paris Hilton’s little brother, Barron Hilton, claimed the actress had him beaten to a pulp.
Good ‘ol Bernie Madoff. The former non-executive Chairman of the NASDAQ , stockbroker and financier who admitted to operating in a Ponzi scheme considered to be the largest financial fraud in US history, agreed to an interview with the Wall Street Journal while incarcerated.
Researchers have always suspected that sharks, like many other fish, return to their original birthplace to give birth themselves. Now they have hard evidence.
Most of us with a brain and an internet connection already figured that third-party spying via a laptop webcam was entirely possible – but we assumed that the hardware would at least indicate it was in use. Boy, were we wrong about that one.
In which she sings repeatedly about a day of the week, rides a stuffed triceratops, recovers from a Friday hangover (see what she did there?), and gets her friends to mock Miley Cyrus. Yep, this is actually happening.
This handshake between England’s Kevin Pietersen and Joe Root went down in a recent Ashes test in Australia. Played in slow motion, it may well be the most difficult sequence of play to have besmirched a cricket field in 2013. Yuck, man. [Thanks, Ross!]
Truffles are the diamonds of cuisine – exquisite, much desired worldwide, and hard to come by. Which makes adopting your very own truffle tree a fairly epic prospect.
You would think that entertainment journalist and Deadline.com founder Nikki Finke would do better to avoid social media faux pas like “don’t try and endorse a movie whilst also paying respect to the dead”.
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It’s about time that condom advertising did away with all the coy innuendos and started getting to the point.
There were whispers in the air on Friday afternoon claiming that a certain Kanye West had overstepped the line once and for all. Local newspapers sparked a furious outrage on Twitter, when they claimed that West had promised to become ‘the next Mandela’.
These two tourists had no idea that Mandela had passed away just a few hours before they arrived at the Robben Island ferry terminal on Friday. The News24 reporter interviews them for quite some time, before discovering just how far they’ve been left in the dark.