It’s been the rhetorical question on everyone’s lips for quite some time: will Cricket South Africa ever get the unlawful bonus money back from those who received it? There seems to be a chance that they will. CSA is attempting to recover R3,3 million from suspended chief executive, Gerald Majola and former chief operating officer, Don McIntosh.

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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, Chantelle makes us a Grape Ciroctini Check out their Facebook page, to stand a chance of winning […]

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Comedian Jimmy Kimmel spoke at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner yesterday. Amongst the issues he got off his chest was the legalisation of marijuana. See him tell Barack Obama that “pot smokers vote too” after the jump.

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CISPA – the ugly cousin of other internet-crippling bills SOPA and PIPA, whether Facebook admits it or not – passed late last week in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. Worse, the bill was amended before it passed to allow even more types of private information to be tapped and shared by government agencies in the US.

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One of Australia’s richest men, mining magnate Clive Palmer, has commissioned a Chinese state-owned company to build a replica of the H.M.S. Titanic, and is planning to launch Titanic II at the end of 2016. Our report will go on, after the jump!

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Obama, Kimmel Have Comedy Faceoff At Correspondents’ Dinner – President Obama got the first — and biggest — laughs at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. He poked fun at some of Hollywood’s top stars, including Kim Kardashian, the cast of Glee and Donald Trump, sending him up with a seemingly serious allusion […]

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The Civil Aviation Authority has finally approved and validated of G-Connect’s In-Flight Wi-Fi solution. That’s right, very soon you’ll be able to fly from Cape Town to Johannesburg with in-flight internet. It finally feels like some progress is being made in SA, internet wise at least. Full info inside.

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The trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor at the Hague has come to an end with a guilty verdict in all of the eleven counts against him after nearly five years of proceedings. Taylor is the first African leader to stand trial for war crimes at the U.N.-backed International Criminal Court.

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Nando’s didn’t hesitate accepting the challenge that Santam had set them this week. In fact, Nando’s delivered a day early, and then bettered it, showing they definitely weren’t chicken. Some might call it a very good example of symbiotic radvertising.

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Donald Trump flew into Edinburgh yesterday. He met with members of the Scottish parliament and told them that wind turbines would be the “destruction of Scotland’s tourist industry”. But he got some static from local activists before the time when a protester rubbed a balloon against his trademark hair – and made it stand up! Evidence inside.

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Last year, James Cameron called on filmmakers to start shooting film at 48 frames per second – twice the industry standard, and twice as smooth, visually. Peter Jackson was the first to respond, shooting The Hobbit at 48fps. And, according to people who saw a 10-minute preview at CinemaCon this year, it looks like a made-for-TV BBC movie.

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Forbes is well known for cataloguing the world’s powerful, rich and famous every year, but they also produce a list of fictions wealthiest characters, drawn from TV, film and literature. Who’s on top this year? A hint, he’s no friend to a thatched roof. Full list of this fictional fortune foolery, after the jump!

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While on her way back from school on Monday afternoon, an 8-year girl was pulled into a sugarcane field by a 15-year old male learner, where she was brutally raped and mutilated and left for dead.

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I believe it’s safe to say that animal poaching has now gotten completely out of hand. This is a scene I’d rather not try and picture – a herd of 22 elephants, were swooped on by a helicopter, and massacred.

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As Occupy Wall Street taught us, protesting is not only a fantastic way to keep your democracy vibrant and your government honest, but it also gives you a lot of ‘cool’ factor’. And nothing says street cred with protesting, like photos uploaded to the net from the actual protesting site. In this episode Seth shows […]

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The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved contentious new legislation that eases rules on how much land farmers must preserve as forest. Environmentalists are up in arms, and say the new forest legislation will be a disaster, and lead to further destruction of the Amazon.

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Jack Parow has just dropped the first music video from his second studio album. “Hard Partytjie Hou” also features Fokofpolisiekar and Van Coke Kartel frontman, Francois van Coke. Best line? “As jy van die liedjie hou, p**s vir Nicholis Louw!” See full, uncensored video inside.

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So! Disney likes your money, and likes for you to dedicate that money to it in advance – which is why they’ve unveiled their animated movie lineup for 2013 to 2015, shedding some light on what will fill the release dates they’d previously reserved for new Pixar flicks. Because those guys take forever to make.

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Facebook is set to go public soon, and while this might be good news to Mark Zuckerberg, it kind of puts things in perspective for the rest of us. Techcrunch did a simple calculation to determine how much the average Facebook user (yes, you too!) is worth in terms of money. Be prepared to feel rather insignificant after the jump.

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A new startup called Urthecast is in the process of putting together HD cameras to be fitted to the International Space Station, so that people can watch real-time video of the planet from space. Which is at once really cool, and sort of pointless. The footage is looking impressive, though – take a look.

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Remember the auction of Khulubuse Zuma’s possessions we covered on Monday? Well, it appears Khulubuse Zuma has some more cars that the Sheriff of Verulam missed. Fifteen to be exact, hidden at a house owned by one of Zuma’s associates. We’ve got the details on the hidden luxury wheels, not to mention some more of Sarah Britten’s thoughts on the matter, after the jump!

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Say what you want about South Africa, at least we’ve got some pretty good advertising in this country. It’s not just Nando’s or Santam that have the monopoly on that either. Check out this spicy ad from Kulula, telling us all about their new special.

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Egyptian-American writer, Mona Eltahawy, has penned a controversial cover article for the latest Foreign Policy magazine, entitled: “Why Do They Hate Us?” In it, she argues that women must finish the revolutions started by the Arab Spring, and a semi-nude woman models a body-paint niqab.

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This must be one of the most unnerving things I’ve seen in a long time! A Chinese teenager recently (and luckily) escaped with only minor injuries after falling into a sinkhole in Xi’an, northern China. The girl was walking on the sidewalk when the ground swallowed her up. She fell six metres! See the incident after the jump.

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Hey there, people who like free online storage. As expected, Google’s potential Dropbox-killer, Google Drive, has gone live – offering users 5GB of free online storage, with the potential to upgrade to 25GB for $2,50 per month. The service is available on PCs, Macs, Android phones – and is coming soon to iOS.

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Judge Bill Prinsloo has granted the anti-e-Tolls lobby group, OUTA, an urgent hearing to argue for an interdict against the implementation of SANRAL’s controversial e-Tolls programme, which drew the ire of motorists and labour unions across the country in recent weeks.

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In the wake of the tragic death of 20-year old Capetonian bodyboarder, David Lillienfeld last Thursday, the City of Cape Town has agreed to implement a shark spotting programme at Kogel Bay, where the young man lost his life.

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“Hit me presidential style!” croons Jimmy Fallon as The Roots ease into a beat smoother than a wet dolphin’s back and President Obama breaks into song. This isn’t a parody or a spoof, this the President of the United States slow jamming the news. Click through for the amazing footage.

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Of all the companies you’d expect something like this from, IKEA is probably at the top of the list. The company revealed this nifty looking device in a press pack recently. Hipsters the world over just busted a semi.

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We all knew that they were going to be bad, but to be told that one in four of Jozi’s drivers were asked for a bribe in 2010 is quite something. 154 440 motorists were asked to pay a bribe, but only 184 cases of corruption were reported.

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