Most of the time when people think of Cape Town they envision one the world’s top tourist destinations – sunny shores, a breathtaking mountain and bustling nightlife to name but a few of the draws. What is often omitted however, is the darker side of the city – murderous, drug-fuelled gangs which run rampant in the city’s shadowy corners.
It takes a lot to get to the Olympics. Strict training, years of dedication and many, many sacrifices. Especially when you come from a country like Germany, where the competition to make the cut is tough. When you finally make it onto the springboard at the London Games, it must really suck to Feck it up.
That’s right, friends – last night’s Euromillions R1.9 billion lottery draw wasn’t won and so it carries over AGAIN for Friday’s draw. Buy tickets here.
It is incredible to think that we are just over halfway through the Olympics already! More than 10 000 athletes from 200 national Olympic committees around the globe are taking part, and so far dozens of Olympic and World Records have already been broken – resulting in more than 500 medals already awarded!
Facebook recently entered the South African legal domain when the Durban High Court held that it is permissible for documents to be served through the social media platform. This begs the question though – what’s coming next?
Task force pounces on Auction Alliance. Olympic Athletes missing. Justin Bieber disses Prince William. SA snow makes international headlines. Google’s driverless car completes 300,000 miles with no accident.
If online fashion shopping is getting you down, you’ll like what PopYaCollar has done. Finally you can shop Cape Town’s boutique fashion outlets in the comfort of your own home – with free 24 hour delivery.
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The Lollapalooza music festival took place in Chicago over the weekend. And like pretty much every other major music festival around the globe recently, Die Antwoord played there. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly they explained why they don’t prefer to do gigs in South Africa. As it turns out, Ninja & Yolandi does not seem to care much for South Africans in general. According to the notorious two, South Africa is “pretty fucking retarded” and the majority of its citizens are “insecure”. Also, performing to South Africans is “like doing magic tricks for retarded children.”
Holy rocks and ash! Mount Tongariro, located in the central North Island of New Zealand, has erupted after lying dormant for 115 years. The eruption brings with it a massive cloud of ash, 115 years worth, reminding us all of the chaos of Eyjafjallajökull. Luckily it’s not so serious this time around.
The Sekunjalo Consortium has made a multi-billion rand bid to buy Independent Newspapers, but they might want to knock off R1 million from that bid for the “kickback” Independent took from Auction Alliance last year.
Finally! The Competition Tribunal today fined Telkom R449 million for “abusing its dominance in the telecommunications market between 1999 and 2004.” The fine followed a decade-long investigation into the company’s practices. This immediately affected their JSE activity as well, with the share price falling this morning by 16c to R17,89.
If you know the feeling of struggling through the last kilometre of your run, take heed of these five tips, as the songs on your running playlist may be the key to giving you that final burst of strength.
US regulators have accused British bank, Standard Chartered, of behaving like a “rogue institution” and of laundering $250 billion from Iran, hiding the transactions for over a decade, a violation of US sanctions.
It’s been a particularly cold winter this year, and the cold front that’s just hit the entire country brought a massive chill along with it. Whilst the weather service is not bringing us any good news with regards to the temperatures, a rare thing happened last night. It snowed. And boy did it snow.
“The plane that we were on was old and had sticky tape holding up the emergency exit sign,” says 1Time passenger about Sunday’s 1Time flight T6 653 that made an emergency landing shortly after take-off.
Hillary Clinton is currently in South Africa for a 4-day tour until Thursday morning. Yesterday she met with the most beloved guy in the country, Nelson Mandela, at his Qunu home. When posing for photos, the US secretary of state even praised Madiba’s “beautiful” smile. See the rest of the pics below.
Finally, Google have stepped it up and delivered the kind of awesomeness we’ve come to expect from them! Their initial Olympic doodle was a bit of let down, offering no real interaction or fun Easter Eggs, today’s however is right up there with the best of them.
Batman suspect’s shrink warned police. Syria PM defects. Apple bins YouTube. Elton John calls Madonna a c*nt. US Olympian disqualified for weed.
Incredible footage has emerged of a man in Cape Town attempting to get rid of R10,000 out of a building window in de Waterkant. Follow link and press play for the video.
The World Wide Web, AKA The Most Important Invention In The Known Human History, turns 21 today. Like all beloved 21 year olds, a lot of people are making a big deal of this particular birthday. moneysmart, who share their birthday with the WWW, and without which they could not exist, have put together one […]
If you are going to be a big douche at the Olympics, don’t do it with Edith Bosch, Netherland’s world judo champion, standing next to you. Bosch put her skills to use at the 100m final on Sunday night, by hitting a moronic spectator who threw a bottle onto the track just before the race.
Fans around world were shocked when Twilight star Kristen Stewart (K-Stew) broke the bond that was thought to have been unbreakable by cheating on her on-film and real life lover, Robert Pattinson (R-Patts). None were more hurt by K-Stew and R-Patt’s public scandal than celebrity funnyman, Will Ferrell, who weighed in on the issue on a recent episode of Conan.
Have you heard about the go! Travel South Africa App for iPad? My goodness it’s mind blowing!
We know that Usain Bolt is one man that does his surname justice. Officially the fastest man on the planet, and with four Olympic gold medals behind his name, he may arguably be the best sprinter that the world has ever seen. But how does he stack up against former medalists?
It still remains unclear as to why Herman Pretorius would have wanted to shoot and kill his former business partner Julian Williams recently. But the company Williams worked for at the time of his death, Basileus Capital, has defended any involvement with an alleged ponzi scheme.
When receiving a parking fine, it is normal to wish ill on the traffic cop behind that pink ticket. But it takes a lot of stupidity to actually assault one in person. Julien Chabbott is the boyfriend of MTV’s The Hills’ star, Stephanie Pratt. After parking his Ferrari 458 Spider illegally over the weekend (the […]
Cameron van der Burgh, one of South Africa’s Olympic stars, has admitted to using illegal dolphin kicks to gain an advantage and ultimately win the 100m breaststroke final at the Olympics in London several days ago. Despite the transgression, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) are unable to sanction him as the admission came five days after the event.
It’s no secret that the Olympics cost a metric shit ton of money. The London Organising Committee has way overblown its budget, and many people on the streets are complaining about the real benefit against the cost of such an event. Good to know then that the officials are at least eating well.
Curiosity has landed. Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden: “Today, the wheels of Curiosity have begun to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars.”