Bizcommunity, one of South Africa’s more popular sites for news, jobs and events in advertising, marketing, media, retail and related sectors, has launched an online shopping portal called BizBuy, focusing on lifestyle and business products.

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On Sunday Twitter aired its first ever TV commercials. The series of shorts are centered on America’s favourite past-time, Nascar racing, and push their new message: “See what he sees.” Click through to see the clips.

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Jonathan Shapiro, more commonly known as Zapiro, has been named the 2012 recipient of the International Publishers Association (IPA) award for Freedom to Publish. He’ll receive it for his exemplary courage in upholding the freedom to publish whatever he wants, basically.

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Photos and horrific stories are starting to surface from Syria about so-called “ghost killers”. These guys have been pumped to the max with steroids, and serve one purpose only: to keep Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, in power. They do this by “terrorising women and children, and conducting ethnic cleansing.” See what these monsters look like inside.

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A new concept restaurant has met with some recent success. Dinner in the Sky has diners, dining table and waitstaff hoisted some 50 meters into the sky with a crane, where they can enjoy a high-altitude gourmet meal. The latest branch just opened up in in Brussels – take a look after the jump.

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30 years later the famous case of baby Azaria Chamberlain being eaten by a dingo while on holiday has finally been put to rest. Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, long maintained that a dingo took her baby, even as she was sentenced to life in jail for her daughter’s murder, a conviction that was later quashed.

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Trolls, a uniquely 21st-century phenomenon, have always enjoyed the privilege of anonymity. Abusive internet users have been allowed to hide behind made-up usernames while they went about trolling whom, when and where they please. That’s about to stop, in Britain at least.

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Apple opened its annual WWDC conference in Cupertino last night, and to no-one’s surprise has revealed the brand new line of MacBook Pros, as well as a update to the very popular line of MacBook Airs. See the full, drool-worthy specs inside.

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The City of Cape Town has announced that the IRB Junior World Championships matches scheduled for Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch have been moved to the Cape Town Stadium, and Newlands Rugby Stadium. The City made a joint decision with the IRB in light of adverse pitch conditions at Danie Craven Stadium. The Baby Boks play England at Cape Town Stadium tomorrow at 18h45.

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The Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities plans public meetings this month in Gauteng, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State. The meetings relate to the revision of public holidays, in particular Christian holy days. This follows “complaints and requests” it has received that the present public holidays recognise Christians and unfairly discriminate against other religions.

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British Prime Minister, David Cameron, left his eldest daughter, Nancy, at a pub following a Sunday lunch. It happened after a mix-up with his wife Samantha, Downing Street has admitted. The couple only realised their daughter was missing when they got home.

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In recent years we have seen reality television sink from the lows of Big Brother down through teen pregnancy, to the dregs of Jersey Shore. Earth, it would seem has little left to offer in terms of reality TV. Enter Dutch team, Mars One, who are looking to raise an initial $6 billion to send a team to mars by 2023, and make a reality show out of it.

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Recently, on the Turkey leg of her MDNA tour, Madonna quite deliberately flashed her nipple at the crowd, drawing gratuitous cheering and pic-snapping. Click through for the obviously N5FW video.

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Yesterday, Nando’s made a decision to hit back at our nation’s broadcasters. They published a summary of their pro-diversity advert in the Sunday papers in response to the SABC, DSTV, M-Net and e.tv banning the advert.

They say: “They’ve made the decision for you. Unlike our broadcasters, we’re giving you the right to choose.”

That’s how we feel too, because nobody should treat you like a child.

Click through to enjoy the ad in all its glory.

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Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle from Roxette have called Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport “possibly number one on the list of the world’s worst airports.” This after their flight was delayed for about 90 minutes over the weekend. Read their full Facebook post inside.

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The Citizen reported over the weekend that Tokyo Sexwale is to be booted out of President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet in yet another cabinet reshuffle. The rumour comes from a “highly placed source” who told The Citizen that “Sexwale has been speaking against Zuma’s government lately. Zuma wants him out.”

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On Saturday night, defending WBO Welterweight Champion Manny Pacquiao met challenger Timothy Bradley for a much-hyped title fight. The fight appeared to be heavily lopsided in Pacquiao’s favour and the verdict seemed to be all but sealed, until two of the judges revealed their scorecards and created one of the biggest controversies in boxing history.

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Did you just get a little shiver up your spine? I did. I really did. Do you remember that amazing time that we shared together last year? I remember it, so fondly. I really do. We were building something, something good, something great – a movement. A movement based on the premise that no one […]

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Very few people are privileged enough to travel the world and even fewer can say they’ve set foot on all seven continents. Thankfully we have been blessed with photographers like Sean F. White, who has not only accomplished both, but chose to record the journey and share it via an amazing time-lapse recording. Click through for a magnificent six-minute trip around the world.

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PUMA has just launched a new campaign that asks you to recycle your unwanted clothes. It’s known as the “Bring Me Back” programme, and all you need to do is take your unwanted stuff – even non-PUMA stuff – to a PUMA retail location. However, if you’re attached to that special pair of pumps, PUMA encourages you to snap a picture, write an obituary, and share it online.

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Harvey Nichols in the UK came under fire this week for their latest advertising campaign. Meant to promote their summer sale, the posters depict models that have apparently wet their pants with excitement. The slogan reads: “The Harvey Nichols Sale…Try To Contain Your Excitement.”

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As the American government continues its internal adoption of cloud computing services, Google and Microsoft have been scrambling for contracts – what with their being lucrative and influential and such. Sucks to be Google, then, because the FAA just awarded $91 million to Microsoft to have their platform transition to the Microsoft Office 360 cloud service.

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Kicking off on 1 July, FNB will no longer charge for card purchases on a number of their accounts and will also reduce fees by up to as much as 11% in certain cases. Click through for the full breakdown.

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Over at Simply Sean, blogger Sean Wilson has written a very cheeky post on what former Sprinbgbok coaches think about Heyneke Meyer’s team selection for his first test in charge on Saturday against England in in Durban. From the absurd utterances of Peter de Villiers to the grumpy racism of Andre Markgraaf, Sean nails it. Here are a […]

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Cell C’s Alan Knott-Craig Senior says he’s not surprised by the Cabinet’s decision to turn its nose up at a proposal from Korea Telecom to buy a 20% stake in Telkom. Why: because in the past, foreign companies have let South Africa down. He says governments, especially in developing countries, have to be involved in telecommunications penetration.

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Ilias Kasidiaris is a Greek politician and former special forces soldier. He is the Golden Dawn party’s spokesperson, as well as a passionate far-right Holocaust denier. See him take part in a live TV debate, during which he disagrees with, and ends up punching a female member of parliament several times in her face. He also throws water in the face of another MP.

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Bob Welch, formerly Fleetwood Mac’s guitarist and succesful soft-rock soloist of the 70’s, was found in his Nashville home yesterday, dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 65. Police reports say that Welch’s body was found by his wife in the mid-afternoon, along with a suicide note.

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US Magazine Confirms Gisele Bundchen Is Pregnant – Ever since rumours started circulating that Gisele Bündchen is carrying her second child, it’s been a guessing game of ‘Baby or Bagel’ i.e. is she packing a bump, or has she just eaten a carbohydrate based snack-food item more befitting a ‘civilian’. Well, it seems the former […]

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The latest in the hottest gadgets, apps, and tech news. ETV Primetime. Channel 403. Thursday, 21h30. And this is how we roll.

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In a disgusting display of cruelty and abuse, captors tattooed a refugee’s forehead after he tried to flee Syria for Lebanon. Click through for the disturbing video, slightly N5FW.

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