Last we heard of Coolio he was being arrested for crack-cocaine. Now, the “kitchen-pimp” is hitting us with recipes straight outta Compton with his A.C.P – that’s Assistant Chef Pimp – Jarez, who’s also his cousin. Yes, he’s calling himself the “ghetto Martha Steward, the black Rachel Ray”. The veteran rapper, Coolio, is cooking.

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Africa News Network 7, or ANN7 for short, launched last night complete with Zulu dancers, a Zahara solo and complete confusion on Twitter. ANN7 is the brand new 24-hour news channel on DStv, funded by the Gupta family.

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The Gupta-funded ANN7 news network launched last night, and we can confirm that the tremendous failure of a launch event that was largely defined by dead air has spilled over into their regular bulletins. In this wonderful clip, a ANN7 sports anchor refers to Australian cricket captain, Michael Clarke, as “Michelle”.

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This runaway-train-on-fire is reaching such exquisite levels of ineptitude that we are now wholly convinced that the entire enterprise is a subversive satirical comedy channel to rival the best in the world. Take this ANN7 job ad, for example.

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An award-winning author and principal of a high profile private school in White River has been fired following his arrest for child pornography – you can’t trust anyone these days. This guy, who won’t be named until he pleads, has been arrested in connection with an international child pornography syndicate along with six other “professionals” ranging […]

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They’ve already cloned sheep, now they want to clone a Beatle. Not just any Beatle though, the most famous of the lot – John Lennon. Dr Michael Zuk, dentist and owner of John Lennon’s rotten tooth from the 1960s, hopes to sequence Lennoon’s DNA from the tooth and use “technology” to clone the Beatles’ frontman.

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Check out Norway’s Halden prison. This maximum security prison seems more like a hotel than anything else. The prison spent around $1million on paintings, photography and light fixtures to ease the psychological burdens of being punished. Since the maximum sentence for any crime is 21 years in Norway, the prison focuses on preparing the inmates […]

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American R&B singer Brandy, famous for songs like ‘The Boy is Mine’, was the surprise guest at Mandela Sports and Culture Day in Johannesburg. And the surprise guest got quite a surprise when she came out to perform in front of an audience of about 40 people, with the stadium lights on. No one knew she […]

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Videos are emerging online following an alleged poison gas attack outside Damascus on Wednesday.  The Huffington Post has reported that the footage can not be independently verified. A Syrian activist, Mohammed Saeed, said in an interview with the Associated Press: The visit by the U.N. team is a joke. … Bashar [Assad] is using the […]

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Are you having a hard time envisioning Elon Musk’s Hyperloop? An American company, WhiteClouds, wants to help you on the visualisation front. They have created a 3D printed interpretation of the ground breaking vehicle, and get this, they did it all in 24 hours. This video will help you wrap your mind around the awesomeness […]

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It starts out like any other nerdy convocation speech, then starts to get exciting when the 2001: A Space Odyssey music kicks in. Selby delivered the speech to an audience of around 4,000, and in only two days, it already almost has a million views.

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A few months ago Google said they will be working towards providing internet connectivity to parts of the world that don’t have it via WiFi-broadcasting balloons. The project bears the appropriate moniker, ‘Project Loon’. On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that together with Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Samsung and Qualcomm, they will be founding Internet.org. This project […]

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American reporter, James Kirchick played a clever trick on the the Russian RT news network, and was kicked off the air. He was supposed to be talking about Bradley Manning, and instead offered his opinion on the Russian government’s anti-gay laws.

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What is it with politicians that they feel the need to say/text/email really inappropriate things, when they know it will be recorded and archived forever? The latest of these is from ex-American president Richard Nixon. Tricky Dicky, as he was known after the Watergate scandal, was no stranger to controversy – like, you know, Watergate scandal.

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Beat Around the Bosch is SA’s first combined running and live music event, and it’s happening in Stellenbosch on 28 September! The event is the first of its kind because no other running race has ever featured live music from six stages around the 7,95km track through the historic student and winelands town.

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Two local 20-something entrepreneurs have developed a bona-fide smart phone ideally suited to our local context where smartphones are expensive to buy, and data isn’t cheap. Dream Mobile tackles both of those problems.

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Meanwhile in Russia, a 550-ton military hovercraft lands on a beach full of people… and everyone’s chilled. The craft in question one of the world’s largest hovercrafts, the Zubr. It can carry tanks and up to 400 troops when its fully loaded. But what it was doing on a crowded and apparently public beach, no […]

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Yahoo’s US traffic higher than Google. Prison Break star is gay. Another base-jumper dies. Manning gets 35 years. Malema running into naming problems. Gaga not playing by the rules.

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These photos will put your selfies to shame. Check out these insane photos from some of the 2013 award winners of the iPhone Photography Awards. [SOURCE: iPhone Photography Awards]

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68-year-old, Malcom Myatt of England, will never be sad again. After spending 19 weeks in the hospital due to a stroke he suffered, doctors told him the frontal lobe of his brain had been destroyed. That’s the section of the brain that controls emotions.

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If you live in Joburg, you may want to pay attention. The City of Joburg (CoJ) has come under scrutiny because of a massive security flaw that shows your municipal invoices to anyone with an internet connection. These invoices include names, addresses, account numbers, PIN codes and financial details. MyBroadband was made aware by a […]

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The man who lost $550 million when he bought and sold MySpace is chasing the younger, edgier crowd again. This time, Rupert Murdoch has purchased a 5% stake in Vice Media for $70 million. And this time, we think he’s got a winner!

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What does Beyonce do after headlining V Festival? Go to Nando’s obviously. Go to Nando’s and order 48 chickens – of course. It wasn’t all for her if you were wondering, no, this was not an epic case of the munchies, although that would have been terrific.

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A copycat killer in Costa Rica, known only by his surname, Macotelo, is accused of killing his girlfriend Melissa Zuniga. After a heated argument, he apparently strangled his girlfriend to death, took a picture of her body, and sent it to her sister via Whatsapp.

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Agang party leader, Dr Mamphela Ramphele has released a statement outline her financial net worth and annual income in what the party is calling a bid to promote transparency and accountability in South African politics. The official Agang twitter account tweeted the following on Wednesday morning:

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Footage of yet another isolated South American tribe has emerged. Last week we brought you rare footage of the isolated Kawahiva Tribe from Brazil. This week, a tribe living near Peru is making a second attempt at contacting the outside world. The Mashco-Piro tribe were caught on video trying to cross a river, and venture beyond the border of their isolated community in Manu Nationl Park.

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Alessandra Ambrosio isn’t just hot, she’s funny, too! Check out her latest project on Funny or Die. The model is transformed from Victoria’s Secret Angel to ugly, two faced, science experiment. Seriously, we’re not lying.

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A brave resident popped their head about their wall to film this street shootout between gangs in Manenberg, earlier this week. Manenberg has fallen under the political and media spotlight recently, with drug-related gang violence spiralling out of control in the Cape Town township. [Source : YouTube]

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Sick of your shoe collection? Print another pair. Yes, people, the future has arrived. Let’s welcome it in and have a cup of tea. You can now print your own shoes – If you have a CubeX 3D printer.

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We’re already at the tail end of August, people. You have about two weeks before the Christmas decorations go up in Checkers. Summer is bearing down on you like a ravenous funbeast and you’re just STANDING there. Get your A into G immediately by snapping up this 800W electric scooter, perfect for supply refreshment missions from the beach to the shops and back.

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