We all know who Alan Knott-Craig Jnr is. He’s the guy who bought MXit, owns World of Avatar, and made it possible for you to buy Vida with your cell. His father, Alan Knott-Craig Snr, has just been appointed as the CEO of Cell C. This could mean some very interesting developments in the telecoms industry.
Back when I was three, I sometimes got so angry over not getting my way that I’d literally throw my toys to the ground. I can therefore totally relate to Marcos Baghdatis breaking four of his tennis racquets at the Australian Open yesterday. This happened just after he lost the second set of their match against Stanislas Wawrinka.
This is sort of like Robocop! Brazilian police forces are testing out glasses fitted out with cameras linked to a central computer network that stores a database of criminal suspects’ faces, so that they’ll be able to arrest people during the 2014 World Cup without having to ask them their names.
Dan Patlansky will be in to chat about his new album called 20 Stones, which is being launched this Sunday at Kirstenbosch. For those of you who haven’t heard him, he’s a 30-something blues-musician with legend status! His epic talent as a Blues-musician aside, a little-known fact about the man is that he can sing…. Tune […]
Back in the early 1990s, you didn’t get much more supermodel than Cindy Crawford. Now, decades later, her 10-year old daughter Kaia has stepped onto the catwalk for the first time, and for the same design house that made her mother internationally famous: Versace.
It’s official – after weeks of speculation on Wall Street, the once iconic and innovative film company has run out of money. Kodak filed for bankruptcy today, after failing to survive a liquidity crisis following a massive decline in the sales of the very thing it pioneered in the first place – film.
In what must be some of the creepiest news to emerge (this week) from what is admittedly a pretty weird place, a number of human body parts have been found scattered around the famous Hollywood Hills sign in Los Angeles. The LAPD says a severed human head was found in the area yesterday, and since then the discovery of “pairs of hands and feet” has also been reported.
London Firm Pays R470 Million For Quarter Of Mvelaphanda – Private-equity group Blackstar had spent about R468m to acquire Coronation’s 28% stake in Mvelaphanda Group , the parties announced yesterday. Mvela’s holdings include 21% of media group Avusa , the half-owner of Business Day, and 3% of Absa. [businessday] Huffington Post To Launch Live […]
One of Hollywood’s most enduring and media-shy couples, film star Johnny Depp and French songstress Vanessa “Be My Baby” Paradis, are over-gadover. According to People magazine, Johnny’s work has increased to a point where he is spending more time in LA than in France, where they have spent most of their life together. And apparently […]
Click HERE to view the trailer! Check out the trailer for rising star, Riaad Moosa’s new film, Material. Material is a new South African film, produced by Ronnie Apteker and directed by Craig Freimond. The story follows a young Muslim man, played by Riaad Moosa, who finds himself torn between his family’s expectations, and a […]
A game farmer has been mauled to death by a buffalo on his Free State farm. Willie Cronje farmed in Boshoff and was also a qualified doctor. The incident was witnessed by his 18-year-old son.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has today written a letter published in The Star newspaper asking that we no longer refer to Johan Kotzé, the Limpopo rape and murder accused, as “the monster from Modimolle”. He says Kotzé is still one of God’s children “with the capacity to become a saint.”
David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… didn’t they adapt the Millenium trilogy just two years ago? Why didn’t they cast Noomi Rapace, the ‘Girl’ from the original? Is it a faithful adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel? There’s an 8 minute movie trailer?
Google has joined Wikipedia, BoingBoing and a number of other popular websites in the SOPA protest – not just by ‘blacking out’ their logo, which is cute but largely ineffective, but by putting together a comprehensive and informative infographic on the SOPA bill and piracy, along with access lines for voters to contact members of Congress through.
Controversy is raging on both sides of the Atlantic over a British publisher’s plan to reprint Adolf Hitler’s anti-semitic manifesto, Mein Kampf, in German for the first time since the end of the Second World War.
If you’re anything like me, going even a few minutes without music can seem like torture. However as it turns out, a few minutes without music blaring in your ears could actually save your life.
A police investigation has been opened in Brazil after a Big Brother contestent was thrown out of the house for “inappropriate behaviour”. The 31 year-old male model was accused of sexually assaulting one of his housemates. A little tricky to dodge such allegations if the house you’re living in is filled with cameras.
Wikipedia joined a number of other websites by going offline for 24 hours in an attempt to protest against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US. Users see a black screen and a political statement: “Imagine a world without free knowledge,” but if you really need to access the website, just hit the ‘Esc’ key when you land on your desired Wikipedia page.
In retaliation against Saudi Arabian hacker 0xOmar, who leaked the credit card details of 15 000 Israeli nationals and took down a secondary Tel Aviv stock exchange site last week, Israeli hackers calling themselves the #IDF-team have targeted stock exchanges in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates yesterday.
I get a kick out of liberating people, and the more that experience the freedom one feels when logged into one’s own US iTunes account, the better. And guess what, ANYBODY can get a US iTunes account. You don’t need to live in America and you don’t need an American credit card.
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This week I’ll be pairing some wines to three albums that have been occupying my earballs lately. It’s a tad facile. But then it has been shown that music can affect the way we taste wine. Drink, listen, be told a story.
On Sunday a second set of nude pictures of Khanyi Mbau appeared on Twitter. The Film and Publication Board said yesterday that the police would be asked to help with investigations. They also warned that people who post such pictures on social networks might be held criminally liable. OFFICE WARNING: Nudity may appear after you click.
Less than a fortnight since Jay-Z and Beyoncé dropped their chart topping little nugget, Blue Ivy Carter, on the world, a mysterious poem started doing the rounds online, apparently penned by papa Hov himself. In it he swears to treat women better, and stop using the “B” word in his lyrics.
The White House was forced to be locked down for over an hour last night when protestors from the “Occupy DC” movement lobbed a smoke over the wall. The group consisted of about 1500 protestors, from all across America. Nobody was allowed to leave the property.
Sites Go Offline In US Piracy Law Protest – A number of high-profile websites are taking part in a 24-hour “blackout” to protest against two bills being considered by Congress to tackle copyright infringement. The above image is what you see if you do a search on Wikipedia or if you visit HuffingtonPost. [bbc] Damning […]
Our buddy, and hilarious comedian, Stuart Taylor is putting on a great show at the Baxter Theatre. The run starts tomorrow night, and makes light of the fact that most of us are horrendously broke at the moment. And the best part? At the end of the run, Stuart will be paying off the credit […]
Foreign interference from the USA could have been behind the $165 million failure that was the Phobos-Grunt probe to Mars by Russia. This is the opinion of Russian space agency Roscosmos, which is investigating the most recent disaster in what has been a series of “major space mishaps” for the nation.
The South African Institute of Race Relations is reporting that only five of the nine state owned enterprises reporting to the Department of Public Enterprises were profitable in the 2009 – 2010 financial year. The taxpayer makes up for the shortfalls.
It’s prety damn hot in Cape Town at the moment and there is nothing that says jealous, like people in cars queuing for hours in the 40 degree heat, as a Vespa sails through. It’s 2012 and a new year, so why not make a new year’s resolution that will last a lifetime. Learn to […]
Cape Medical Response recently got a call to transfer a patient to Constantiaberg as an emergency. But they were stopped at the Chapman’s Peak toll first. According to Entilini Concession – the company that operates the road – even ambulances must stop and pay the toll fee, “irrespective of whether it is an emergency.”