Reports are coming in that a robbery attempt was made by armed men on a bank in the Cape Town City Bowl this morning. We have photos and feedback.
Girls out there that have a crush on Bradley Cooper might want to give this one a miss. Guys out there who are 38 and want to be reminded what a 20 year old girl looks like, keep reading. Presenting Suki Waterhouse..
As usual, it wasn’t easy picking this week’s ‘Naughty Hipster Of The Week’ – our weekly competition exposing local hipsters who go that extra mile to celebrate their vibe. But when you look like a garden gnome, you’re sure to make it through..
Sixty years after the first publication “Casino Royale”, we finally have an African setting for a James Bond novel. The latest novel written by William Boyd is titled “Solo”, and will be set primarily on African soil
Boston bombs made from kitchen pressure cookers. Whatsapp has more users than Twitter. Cops offered half a bar for pics of Pistorius toilet door. Facebook launching bold expensive advertising. Ozzy Osbourne relapsed. Why was Downey Junior paid half a billion Rand?
The UK Athletics chairperson has confirmed that Oscar Pistorius will not be welcome at the Anniversary games, confirming, “based on what I know at the moment, it would be a no if he rang this morning.”
The Daily Sun has published a video to their YouTube account showing a violent assault against an elderly woman by two retail security guards. The woman was accused of shoplifting by the security, and beaten with a range of weapons, including belts, broomsticks, and rubber mallets, despite begging for mercy and saying “Ke le patetse”, meaning […]
Rumours began circulating at the end of last week that former Springbok captain and current Saracens hooker, John Smit would return to South Africa to fulfill the role of Chief Executive Officer at the Sharks Rugby Union. Those rumours have been confirmed. Smit will replace current chief executive Brian van Zyl, who will mentor Smit […]
Anyone who visited the Jack Daniel’s 2oceansvibe tent at Taste of Cape Town will agree things were off the hook! Not least of which was the mental performance by Ard Matthews!
Chris “Mr Cake” Holmes, knew where his heart was and knew that his current job was not for him. Holmes also knew what path he wanted to take on his new journey. So he wrote his resignation letter on a cake.
We all love that feeling of getting into fluffy jammies and cuddling up, horizontally, into our feather down beds. But do astronauts have the same luxury? Think again!
This song has already been thoroughly taken to task by memesters – we’ve seen versions of it sung by goats, rabbits, the wine press lady… The list is endless. Now you can ad subway violinists to that.
Facebook Home’s most current video is slightly easier to understand than a few of their earlier efforts – the only problem is that that message of the ad has been roundly rejected by The People of The Internet.
The Bay Side area of Silicon Valley attracts crowds of successful entrepreneurs to settle down, owing to its close proximity to a concentrated cluster of hyper-successful tech companies. And boy, do sex workers like this neighbourhood
Art work by Kobus Myburgh, showing President Jacob Zuma and former president Nelson Mandela as white has been removed from an art exhibition scheduled to open at the Van Riebeek Hall in Nelspruit yesterday.
Sam Parnia is the head of the intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Hospital, New York. Sam can resurrect you from the dead. In fact, he’s done it a few times.
Atlantic Fog Time-lapse from Eric Nathan on Vimeo.
Photographer Eric Nathan captured the fog rolling in over Cape Town on Sunday evening, and the results are glorious. Check out the amazing time lapse video, after the jump
Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt claims that everybody will be online by 2020, which he stated on his Google+ account this Saturday.
We’ve all seen them being sold in trendy home stores, and coveted, hard. Perfect for getting back in to your cocktail habit, these swing chairs are novel, and comfortable. And the stand is genius. Check them out
For years, science has agreed that plastic waste is destructive for our environment , but not according to Somerset West inventor, William Graham. To Graham, the tons of plastic waste produced by our society on a weekly basis is an ever-growing stack of gold
Obama makes announcement. Gold tanks. China posts disappointing growth figures. SA gives Zim close to R1 billion. Google boss worried about drones. Twitter buys music company. Bitcoin mining bad for environment. Massive Wordpress hack.
Reports are coming in about a massive explosion at the finish line of one of the world’s most famous road running races – The Boston Marathon. Some publications are saying there was one explosion, others two.
In a titanic effort to become the single most hated South African on the internet, convicted criminal and occasionally bankrupt nightclub owner Kenny Kunene has confirmed that he sleeps with underage girls, and loves being “raped” by women.
I was given the heads up this afternoon that local DJ, Damian “Dplanet” Stephens had created a meme from a photo of me with two friends. Check out the gallery below. Which one do you reckon’s best?
There was a time when “somebody hold my baby” was just a line from a standup comedy set. Thanks to the convergence of smartphones, public transport, and the internet, it’s now also a line from a real-world YouTube video
Following South Africa’s disastrous military intervention in the Central African Republic, reports have emerged that South Africa and France are heading for a diplomatic showdown on commercial and political interests in Francophone Africa. This, and more on the M&G Newsroom podcast
Finally it’s here, the trailer for the second installment in the popular Hunger Games trilogy. The MTV Movie Awards was the stage for the premier of the official trailer for Hunger Games: Catching Fire, this last Sunday. Katniss Everdeen is back with her thousand yard stare, and it looks like she’s in just as tight a spot […]
Kmart have taken to YouTube to promote their new shipping service, and they have nailed it by encouraging customers to “ship my pants”. Say that fast. There isn’t really much more we can say about this, apart from the fact that the child is a real highlight.
The GoPro 3 Hero Edition is hot fire, and is widely regarded as the single best ultra-portable camera in the world. In the WORLD. Now’s your chance to get one, for less. So, go ahead and do that.
France got their own taste of an epic, Hollywood-style Prison Break this last Saturday, when one of their most notorious gangsters, Redoine Faid escaped from prison. Faid has claimed that his crimes are inspired by Scarface and Heat