Look at this technology. Just look at it. What prevents you from making EFT payments for absolutely everything in your life? It’s the clunkiness of the process. You log on, you enter a ream of details, you wait for  confirmation code, you pay… And the recipient waits two days for their money. Whereas a cash […]

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When Sir Martin Sorrell speaks about marketing trends, the global advertising and marketing fraternity takes note. The CEO of WPP, the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company, Sir Martin recently gave his view on the top ten trends facing marketers and ad agencies right now. South Africa falls within the region he referred to as the “Southern axis of opportunity” – a significant area of economic growth that cannot be ignored.

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A vintage 1923 Leica camera went under this hammer this weekend, and shattered the record previously set for a camera. The auction was held at the Galerie Westlicht in Vienna, with the camera being sold to a buyer who has chosen to remain anonymous. But exactly how much did it go for?

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This morning we reported on a fire that broke out over the weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix in the Williams team’s garage. Click through for a full picture gallery, as well as video footage, of this dramatic event.

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Facebook lately been experimenting with a small group of users by offering them the opportunity to promote their own status messages by paying for them. If the “Highlight” feature is more widely adopted, people will soon be able to pay to make sure their cutesy status updates are at the top of everyone’s news feed.

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The Diageo World Class South Africa competition pits South Africa’s top bartenders against one another for a shot at the prestigious title of Master Bartender! Bartenders create monthly cocktails to be judged Diageo’s team of mixologists. This episode, Phil makes us a Ciroc Strawberry Martini. Check out their Facebook page, to stand a chance of […]

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The Dalai Lama made news this weekend when he told UK weekly, the Sunday Telegraph that he had been warned the Chinese government was training female assassins in the arts of poison in order to have him killed. China reckons they could have whacked him ages ago. The plot thickens, after the jump!

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This morning the Treasury issued a report in which it recommended that the SAPS reduce staff by 9 000. In a country with one of the highest crime rates in the world, the recommendation seems questionable at best.

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DA Leader Helen Zille was under the spotlight after a new report written on behalf of Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, alleged that lawful process was not followed in a recent tender procurement by the Western Cape government. Zille has previously spoken out against corruption by stating that she would resign should any tender be found corrupt.

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After receiving a tip-off, the Sunday Times on Friday discovered that millions of rands worth of school textbooks had simply been dumped at a warehouse in King William’s Town, in the Eastern Cape.

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After his “blacks were not disenfranchised” statement on CNN last week, former president F.W. de Klerk has been taking a lot of flack. Not only did he get ripped a new one by cartoonist Zapiro in the Sunday Times yesterday, but Nehawu is now calling for him to be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize.

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Hey there, science fiction. Defence contractor, Pegasus Global Holdings is building a replica of Rock Hill, a South Carolina city, in the middle of the New Mexico desert as a testing ground for futuristic infrastructures – self-driving cars, green buildings and next-generation Wi-Fi. It’ll be an uninhabited laboratory – they’re calling it “an amusement park for scientists.”

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Microsoft announced today that they are preparing to roll out a revamped version of their net-based search engine Bing, after spending nearly US$6 billion on the service over its three year existence. They’re attempting to increase Bing’s market share of search engine revenues globally. But how is Facebook involved? Before you all go Google what a “Bing” is, read on…

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This is a little embarrassing for the Russian police. A Russian blogger recently decided to try a little experiment – he took a replica AK-47, hung it around his neck, and walked through the centre of Moscow to see if anything would happen. Not one police officer stopped him. See the pictures from his experiment after the jump.

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Well, this is terribly embarrassing: JPMorgan, the largest bank in the US, literally wiped seven per cent off their stock in a few hours with this blunder. The investment bank has blamed “sloppiness and bad judgment” for the enormous error.

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Eskom’s electricity generating capacity has reached record lows over the last week, with unplanned power outages reaching their highest level for the year on 3 May, and yesterday coming precariously close to that figure again. Considering winter’s only just begun, this is going to cause some major worries across the country.

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Yesterday, news reports surfaced about a schoolboy who was allegedly sexually assaulted with a broom and a banana. The incident took place during an Edgemead High School rugby tour. Even though authorities have opted not to prosecute anyone, Childline is campaigning for legal steps to be taken against the school and the coach who was charge when the alleged events took place.

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Suddenly Obama’s declaration that people of the same sex should be allowed to marry seems a little stale. Argentina has just approved a gender rights bill that will allow all adult citizens to change their legal sex at will — without undergoing surgery or hormone replacement therapy.

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Former SA president, FW De Klerk, spoke with CNN’s chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour in an interview screened last night, revealing some alarming thoughts he has on the legacy of apartheid in South Africa, and his relationship with Nelson Mandela today.

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The Vatican recently launched an investigation into seven priests from the Legion of Christ for abuse of minors, another two priests are being investigated for other crimes. This marks the first known Vatican action against priests following a similar, high-profile case.

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Lately I’ve been drifting toward the cheaper end of the wine spectrum as the belt has unwillingly been drawn in these tough economic times. So this column’s for stretched budgets, treats, great bottles, and benchmarks. International wines that I have tasted in the last year or so that stuck in my head, that I woke up the next morning still thinking about.

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As the total number of rhino poached in the Kruger National Park reaches 130, it’s nice to read news like this. SANParks has reported that two suspects have been arrested, and one killed, in a shoot out in the Crocodile Bridge section of Kruger.

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Ivo Vegter is one of South Africa’s most controversial columnists. An outspoken defender of fracking in the Karoo, champion of free market policies and general hurricane of argument, the debate in the comments section of Ivo’s regular Daily Maverick columns often outstrips the length of the original piece by a healthy margin. Ivo visited the […]

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We know; we also thought it was some kind of elaborate joke, or that we’d been mistaken for seeing an extra zero. We hadn’t. And nor is it a joke. The South African Municipal Workers Union is demanding that all vacant positions in the Local Government Sector be filled as a matter of urgency. Which makes sense, because that would benefit a lot of people.

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For the latest issue of The Cricketer, they asked a large panel of cricket journalists, broadcasters, photographers and fans which cricket pitch is the best to watch Test cricket at. And according to the experts Newlands takes a close second place, only behind Lord’s, the symbolic home of the game. See the rest of the Top 10 inside.

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BBC Scotland viewers got a surprise at lunchtime today when HRH Charles the Prince of Wales himself appeared on their screens after the usual daily Reporting Scotland news broadcast and presented the regional weather report.

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Venture capitalist, Peter Theil’s dream of an artificial island utopia for tech start-ups is inching closer to reality off the coast of San Francisco. Riding a wave of investment capital from Thiel, the project has a name – “Blueseed” – and a website, as well as a lengthy lineup of tech companies that want to get on board.

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Cloud Computing. You’ve probably heard the phrase at a bar, or around your depressingly busy photocopy machine at work. Bill from management, or Peter from accounts drops this term at every opportunity, and every time you just smile and nod. Standing there without a worthwhile contribution. So you embarrass yourself again, by talking about your […]

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The first part of the Olympics happened this morning, which saw the lighting of the Olympic torch in Ancient Olympia in Greece. This marks the start of the 78 day torch relay to the Olympic Stadium. Where will the torch be traveling this year?

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A short while ago, Jessica Leandra dos Santos and Tshidi Thamana seemed to try to apologise for their recent actions, as well as form some kind of friendship. But Itumeleng Mabeba, a man at the centre of hate speech allegations for sending a very disturbing tweet, has claimed his Twitter account was hacked. His employer is also instituting an internal disciplinary process against him.

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