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”.
Seafarers sail through Mediterranean waters aboard the Costa Fascinosa, lulled by the waves and swathed in luxury. Departing from the romance and Italian exuberance of Venice, travellers spend seven days cruising the waters and enjoying the sights of Greece and Croatia before returning to spell-binding Venice. CLICK HERE TO GET YOURS Choose between these options: […]
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.
The memorial service of one of the world’s most-loved politicians will be taking place on Tuesday at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, and scores of politicians from across the planet are expected to arrive in this week in order to pay their respects.
Goodbye Baby Jake. Cape Times editor fired. The world’s wealthiest bachelors. North Korea confirms uncle’s purge. Facebook’s answer to people who can’t like sad news. Thai prime minister dissolves parliament Lenin statue toppled in Kiev. Obama acknowledges secret base.
I think the headline says it all. Some very talented people have taken clips from Nigella Lawson’s immense TV reel and they’ll spliced it up and added some extra spice. It’s very very funny. Watch it. HIGELLA – THE MOVIE..
2013 has been the year of online petitions. Whether they have any effect besides voicing the displeasure, is up for debate. Nevertheless, what may well be the last viral South African petition of 2013 is currently in blossom, and it’s calling for Parliament to impeach Jacob Zuma. The petition calls for the impeachment of Zuma […]
Calling all party animals! Uber will transport you and your colleagues FOR FREE to and from your office Christmas party. Now you can get as festive as you like, without worrying about the consequences.
This game is absolutely tearing it up on the app store charts. In just three weeks, the trivia game ‘QuizUp’ has amassed 3,5 million registered users. It reached its millionth user in just eight days. QuizUp is being called the “fastest-growing iPhone game in history.”
If you’re in the city of Cape Town and want to pay your respects to Madiba, here’s your chance. Today at 17h00 the city of Cape Town will host an inter-faith service on the Grand Parade, honouring our late president. Transport details inside.
Smartphone cameras have come a long, long way since those crappy little one-megapixel cameras on the back of old Motorola clam-shells. And thank God for that. But if we’re honest, there are limitations to a any smartphone camera. But that’s where gadgets like this one fit in.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield paid tribute to Madiba on behalf of NASA, as he and many other astronauts took to twitter to share their condolences, and celebrate his life.
This is like one of those bad dreams. A base jumper near Moab, Utah, fully collided with the cliff he’d just jumped off – and then had to face an age-long tumble to the ground.
Well this is terrifying. Strong crosswinds twice prevented this hefty Emirates Boeing 777 from landing at Birmingham Airport. Please note how close the plane came to landing before aborting. The flight was eventually diverted to Gatwick.
My first image of Nelson Mandela took the shape of an illegal portrait, spray-painted on a concrete wall surrounding a rugby field in George, South Africa.
A man who is as well-known and distinguished as Nelson Mandela has obviously been credited for dozens of on-screen appearances, but surprisingly, he’s only been featured in one major motion picture.
Koos Bekker’s Naspers is doing very, very well. Thanks for asking. And it’s all on the back of TenCent, and a weak Rand. This, from Fin24: At 10:22, Naspers shares, which gained over 80% this year, were changing hands at a new record high of R1010.98, tracking a surge in Tencent shares in Hong Kong. […]
In his time, Nelson Mandela met the Queen for dinner, had a chin-wag with Fidel Castro, and shared an awkward hug with Michael Jackson.
It may not be Francis Bacon’s R1.4 billion best-seller, but you have to admit that half a billion rand is still a helluva lot, and it’s worth seeing what kind of art deserves that degree of monetary exchange.
Have you seen this stunner in Stellenbosch? You get your own vineyard, and your own olive grove without the massive ball-ache of maintaining a Distelle-level vine-producing farm. Just think of the kind of person you get to be when you own this place. Feel free to dabble in making your own boutique wine, take a jar of olives to your mates house when you visit. You’ll basically be the most refined person you know. Jislaaik, that’s lekker.
Kevin Lameck, a driver at the Venezuelan embassy in Nairobi, came forward in a recent trial and said that the embassy’s diplomatic bag was used to traffic drugs.
We say rare, because it was close to impossible to find – even on the internet. The meeting took place in 2005, when Nelson Mandela was in Washington. You must read about how the almost-lost moment came about. Incredible..
An intimate luxurious oasis within the rich African landscape that extends into the grounds of Kruger National Park, Maqueda Lodge sits fearlessly in the heart of the South African bush. The family-run boutique lodge blends effortlessly into the bushveld, where guests enjoy a full-board safari trip among the glorious backdrop of incomparable African sunrises and […]
The legacy of Nelson Mandela all too easily overshadows the reality of the person he was. At the end of the day, he was a simple man who saw the wrong in the world, and committed himself to undoing it by any means.
The world lost one of its greatest sons last night at 8:50 PM. Since then, news stations, politicians and celebrities have been pouring out tributes for South Africa’s former president.