That is correct. According to the calendar, this is the last Friday of your winter, my sweethearts. Come Monday you’ll be stepping in to a springtime of possibility. And it’ll be even brighter if you line your pockets with R700 that you would have otherwise burned on any other high quality kettle braai.
South African mountain biking legend, Greg Minnaar, has become the third person in history to win the downhill champs on home soil.
Days after the word “selfie” officially got added to the Oxford English Dictionary, a photo of the pope doing exactly that has gone viral
Sarah Evans from Mail & Guardian discusses why the navy believes the country needs its multi billion-rand frigates, and what developments we can expect.
Everything about this story is very sad. In this video you will see an emotional, Turkish football player, Volkan Sen who plays for Trabzonspor FC. He burst in to tears during a match on Monday because fans of his OWN TEAM heckled his dead mother. Wait until you hear what the chairman of the football club had to say.
This super fun animation, called Vespalogy was created by a French creative agency. It shows the evolution of Vespa over the years. It is excellently colourful, and is accompanied by a fun tune. 1967 is our favourite version, what’s yours?
Bush tweets Mandela death. Mandela goes home. World record football deal complete. Egyptians suspect swan of spying. Obama seeks congress’ approval on Syria. Syria laughs at Obama.
Italian researchers, who made us aware of the fake Twitter follower business a few months ago, have revealed that Facebook Page spamming has become a R2 billion business. Yes, R2 billion. The researchers spent two days scouring underground spam forums, yes they exist. They found 30,000 Facebook Pages on the forum, and checked for words like “click here,” “wow,” “free,” and “join,” followed by links.
‘Ell but it’s cold hey? Yes , indeed, it is. That’s probably why there is snow on Table Mountain. Such a treat, isn’t it. Check out the gallery here..
Since moving to New York a year ago I’ve been stopped several times by people telling me that I look like Matt Damon. Matt Damon? Are you on crack? But in the city that never sleeps, little sleep makes anybody look like the Hollywood actor you came on holiday to New York for, even though that actor lives in Hollywood.
Guess what? There’s drama in Google land. The company’s co-founder, Sergey Brin – the one who you always see with a pair of Google Glass glasses on – is having intimate relations with the 26-year-old Google Glass marketing manager, Amanda Rosenberg.
Rosenberg was recently romantically connected to Hugo Barra, another top Googler, who coincidentally no longer works for the company. Interesting.
If you’ve been to Paris, or are planning to go, Versailles will be on your radar. But the problem with Versailles is that it tends to be rather far away from anywhere you’re likely to be staying. Whether you’ve been, are planning to go, or have elected to give it a miss, we guarantee that you won’t have a view of Versailles like the one on offer in Phoenix’s new drone-shot music video.
This year’s Oppi was dubbed BewilderBeast and like always, thousands of South Africa’s most colourful and crazy characters flocked to the Northam venue for a weekend (and a bit) of drinking, partying, good vibes and great music…and dust. Deftones were there, did you know that? They rocked.
If Lions beat Western Province, and Sharks beat Bulls, and Man United beat Liverpool, Arsenal beat Spurs, and Newcastle beats Fulham, then your R56 bet will make you R1,008. FACT. It just makes the weekend better, even if you don’t know the sports.
Things are tense between Syria and America right now. That may be the under statement of the century, but what isn’t making it any better is the dare the Syrian president’s 11-year-old son posted on Facebook, daring America to attack.
21-year old Ania Lisewska from Poland is on a mission. Despite having a “serious” boyfriend, her goal is to sleep her way through Europe. No, she doesn’t want to have a snooze in lots of countries, she wants to sex her way through the continent in a quest to shag 100,000 men.
What do you make of Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance? Everyone seems to have an opinion. Even Donald Trump. Check out this message he made for Miley when she was staying in (one of) his hotels.
The poms won’t attack Syria. Russia sends warships to Med. Dave King reaches the end of the road. Paul McCartney has a new solo album. Elon Musk’s Hyperloop goes crowdfunding route. New YouTube logo. US feds cool with weed.
Every time the phone rings, this UK man hears cha ching! After getting sick and tired of receiving numerous calls from telemarketers, he figured out a way to make money from the whole ordeal.
If you’re going to sale across the ocean of life without a worry in the world, you need a very, very big ship. This place is so big it has a separate Aksa generator that keeps a battery backup system fully charged so that this home can run independently of any municipal services if necessary. Oh, and we forgot to mention – it has direct access to the beach. Just like a tiny cottage.
Check out these amazingly awesome science experiments on Vine! General Electric has been promoting #6secondscience on Vine, and the Vine world has responded with some incredible videos. Science is awesome.
If you live in Cape Town, you’ve definitely born witness to the ‘passion gap’. The famous gap sported by many people from the coloured community in Cape Town has finally received international attention.
Remember how bad the acting was in the last Samsung ad? College Humor has taken the liberty of summing up all the reasons why every tech ad you’ve ever seen is the same. There are a lot of bright lights, like a lot, and repetition, did we mention the bright lights? And check out all of these young people, they have really interesting and creative jobs.
If you live in Joburg, consider yourself lucky. The cops have stuffed up big time and more than R2,4 million in traffic fines are being written off.
Ladies and gents, boys and girls, allow me to jog your memory. Last year you may have caught wind of the Continental #Run2Stop challenge. What is that, you ask? Let’s pause here for a second. Watch the video above to get the gist of of the thing.
Researchers from the University of Washington believe this is the first “noninvasive human to human brain interface.” Which is a fancy way of explaining that this guy is very definitely controlling this other guy’s body with his MIND.
After you’ve signed up, most online services keep your information indefinitely, and make it nearly impossible for you to remove it. And it’s more common than you think for services to require you to call them to delete you off their database. Wouldn’t it be helpful if you found that kind of stuff out before you sign up?
DA MP David Maynier summed the situation up rather nicely when he said, “We welcome the fact that the public protector will effectively be investigating the investigation into Guptagate.” And if that isn’t solid gold, then we don’t know what is
eToro gives you the opportunity to cut your teeth in the world of stock trading by following and copying the trades of the users with the best results. And if you get to the point where you’re really good, you might find that thousands of people begin copying your trades
Here’s something to show your Stellenbosch friends. Episode seven of the third series of smash hit legal series, Suits sets UCT as the background context for a character in that episode. As you’ll see in this clip, UCT gets airtime.