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Wild-haired Idols contestant Freddie van’Dango reportedly had his jaw broken in a fight with a “cage fighter”. The incident took place in the early hours of Saturday morning in Greenside.

Though M-Net spokesperson Lani Lombard denied that Van’Dango’s jaw was broken, saying that the popular singer was only injured, there are serious doubts as to whether Van’Dango will be able to attend tonight’s Idols results show.

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The ANC said on Friday that it had served charges this morning on Julius Malema, president of its youth wing.

In a statement the party said: “Comrade Julius Malema has been charged with various violations of the ANC constitution, including bringing the ANC into disrepute through his utterances and statements on Botswana and sowing divisions in the ranks of the African National Congress.

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Lady Gaga has a new single out, and it’s a bit of a freak show, mermaids being boned and all that, I kid you not. Called “Yoü And I”, it’s he usual offering meant to shock.

Try and Enjoy this…

A British judge on Wednesday ruled that Shrien Dewani should be extradited to South Africa to face charges for his wife’s murder.

District Judge Howard Riddle said that Dewani can be extradited, pending approval from the UK’s home secretary.

Riddle said that “only by going to stand trial can Dewani be acquitted & clear his name. That may improve his mental illness”.

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Much excitement is building up as we get closer to Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion Design annual Graduate Fashion Event 2011. This year the prestigious event is taking place in Stellenbosch at the Protea Hotel, Techno Park.

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This one is straight out of the cute files. Sent to me by none other than my mate Andre the Property Broker, this video has us all going ‘aaaah cute’ in the office. Nice for a Friday morning… This is Nala the baby Capuchin monkey who has never seen an iPhone before…

It’s time for all you old boys and girls to show your support for your teams in the Annual MOB (Milnerton Old Boys) Old Boys Rugby Festival which is going down at Milnerton High School.

So what’s this about? It’s a tournament that pits the best Old Boys from various schools against each other for bragging rights to show which school boasts the best old boys team. (more…)

So you might have heard of planking right? It’s the ‘artform’ of laying down on everyday household objuects and the like, taking a picture of your endeavour and then showing everyone how good you are at it.

Not in on the craze yet? Well you might be too late, cos Owling is here and it’s time you moved on to this next big thing. (more…)

Have you heard of K- Swiss? Well me neither.

But after this little gem of an advert featuring Danny McBride, I think we all need to reconsider.

Brilliant. NSFW… if you live in the 1800′s

I don’t know about you guys but when I was a kid I was a voracious reader. Like I always say, I’d read the side of a baked beans can if there was nothing else around to read.

A big part of my upbringing was the transitional stage from kids books to adult books and like most kids from my era, Tintin was the oke that lead that transition. So with this in mind I have been waiting to see what quality the new Tintin 3D movie “The secret of the Unicorn” would be. Well I needn’t have worried. With Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson at the helm, this was always going to be a ripper. The best part of it is that the quality of animation is so good it looks like you’re IN the movie. Yep thats right, that was me in the big beard shouting blistering barnacles… only kidding.

Enjoy.

A friend of mine Angela, that I was in school with ‘just the other day’, recently contacted me to let me know about an adventure she is involved in that involves swimming the English Channel.

Now this isn’t just your routine pro swimmer making a beeline across the channel, and here is a little bit more about this challenge.

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Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has exclusively told Eyewitness News that Cape Town is in line to host a Grand Prix within two years.

For over a decade, various reports have indicated a return to South Africa for the sport, but according to the F1 supremo, a deal is now weeks away from being signed.

Ecclestone was unable to give precise details, but the location of a proposed street circuit points toward the Waterfront and Green Point area.

The South African Grand Prix was last hosted at Kyalami in 1993. It was won by Frenchman Alain Prost.According to Ecclestone, negotiations for its return are in the final stages.

via iafrica.com | motoring | formula 1 | F1 deal for SA – Bernie.

The transport department is considering introducing uniform vehicle number plates to be used in all provinces, the Business Day reported on Tuesday.

Just another money making scheme methinks. Do we really need this?

This comes just a few months after Gauteng launched a new series of aluminium number plates.

Currently, each province has its own number plate design, colours, and numbering scheme.Responding to a parliamentary question from Congress of the People MP Dirk Feldman, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said uniform number plates would help South Africa achieve uniformity with vehicles from the region.

“All the plates would denote the Republic of SA , with the relevant province being allowed a certain portion of a plate wherein they can display provincial logos,” he said .

That’s all fine and dandy but do our citizens really need a new system that IS going to cost us money whatever the esteemed minister says? How much is the goverment going to pay for this to happen? How about spending the money on service delivery so that we don’t face a mass uprising by the unemployed masses, or is this something the government wants to happen?

Bad Idea.

via iafrica.com | motoring | latest news | ‘Universal’ plates for SA.

That’s if you were affected.

I was and to use an oft repeated term, I saw RED.

See being involved in a number of commercial businesses, I’ve had it in the back of my mind that Vodacoms outage last week was in fact something that can be ‘looked at’ using the new consumer protection act. Well I’ve just come across this article and it makes perfect sense to me. As a consumer, one who earns commission, I certainly lost out on that day and finally we may be able to do something about it.

Vodacom may be forced by the National Consumer Commission to refund its customers for losses suffered because of the operator’s network failure on Thursday, which left many clients unable to make and receive calls for most of the day.

If the commission, which administers the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), succeeds in sanctioning Vodacom, it will be the first case under the act.

It could set a precedent compelling other companies to improve service to customers. Section 54 of the act, which gives consumers the right to demand good-quality services, states that if a supplier fails to perform a service, the consumer may require the supplier to remedy any defect in the quality of the service performed or goods supplied, or to refund a reasonable portion of the price paid for the services performed and goods supplied.

Vodacom issued a full-page apology in yesterday’s newspapers, in which its CEO Pieter Uys said the cause of the outage was a multiple failure in the transmission network.

“We are conducting a thorough investigation to understand exactly what caused this failure and why the backup systems did not do their job,” he said.

But the national consumer commissioner, Mamodupi Mohlala, said yesterday an apology was “not good enough. Consumers are entitled to a refund as stated in the CPA. The network operators (including Vodacom) are aware of this clause, section 54(2) in the CPA.”

via iafrica.com | business | businessday | Vodacom faces law suit.

Management of the trendy ZAR nightclub in Cape Town have been warned to obtain valid operating licences or face closure.

The night spot, which opened in January this year, is operating without liquor, entertainment and business licences.

The club, which is owned by business tycoon Kenny Kunene, is housed at the Cape Royale Hotel in Greenpoint.

It is believed the club is operating on the hotel’s licences.

Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security JP Smith said nightclub management will be issued with a notice.

“As for the business licence, when they get the first notice it will give them a warning and a minimal time to comply. Failing so, we will take them to court,” he said.

Smith said the SAPS Liquor Unit will also issue ZAR management with a final notice.

via iafrica.com | news | sa news | Final notice for ZAR club.

Chace Crawford is set to star as a South African man who is accused of shooting and killing his housemate in a new independent film, The House Gun, reports The Los Angeles Times.

Pierce Brosnan is attached to play his father.

The movie is based on the acclaimed 1998 novel of the same name by SA Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordimer.

The House Gun is set in the early years of post-apartheid South Africa and tells the story of Harald Lingard (Brosnan), a liberal, wealthy South African who hires a black lawyer to defend his son Duncan (Crawford) when he is accused of killing his friend.

via Gossip Girl star to play SA killer: Entertainment: Movies: Movies.

So the ‘other royal wedding’ has come and gone, and while the first of the two brought us Pippa Middleton, a balcony ‘blowjob scene’ and a rather tired little flower girl, French journalists covering the royal wedding in Monte Carlo this week added new words to their vocabulary – boerewors, melktert and kameelhout.

South African executive chef Dean Uren was responsible for the food dished up, who with his Fairmont Zimbali colleague and sous-chef Peter Mtshali, flew to the principality to help prepare the huge buffet for more than 6000 guests.

When asked about the journos new verbal skills, he said: “They catch on very quickly,”

Prince Albert and his new bride, Bulawayo-born Charlene Wittstock, specifically asked the Fairmont Hotel – near Durban – to prepare the meals for residents of the principality, to merge the best of local cuisine with that of his wife’s home country (Wittstock grew up in SA).

After Friday’s civil ceremony guests were treated to traditional lamb bredie, curried fish served with rice and sweet potatoes, sweetcorn salad – and even koeksisters.

The boerewors was made in Monte Carlo with Italian beef, but it was the South African name that seemed to be the new buzz word.

via Boerewors served at royal wedding in Monaco – Times LIVE.

The new Springbok rugby jersey that will be worn by Peter de Villiers’s men at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand later this year has been hailed by its maker as the strongest it has yet made, with the latest fabric technology and a new Loop 21 collar design. (more…)

French weekly L’Express reported on its website that Charlene Wittstock, who is set to marry the tiny French Riviera principality’s head of state on Saturday, went to the airport in nearby Nice last week to board a one-way flight for South Africa, where she grew up.

It required “infinite persuasion” by the prince and members of his entourage to convince the 33-year-old former swimming champion to change her mind, the magazine said. “These rumors only serve to gravely hurt the image of the Sovereign, and that of Miss Wittstock, and bring major harm to this happy event,” a palace spokeswoman said in a statement, calling the claims untrue.

A lawyer for the couple, Thierry Lacoste, similarly denied the report and told the daily Le Figaro he had started legal action against L’Express.

via Monaco denies prince’s fiancee has cold feet – Times LIVE.

Only in America! This just in…

Toni Tramel from Kentucky has been charged with third degree assault for whipping out her breast and squirting breast milk into the face of a police officer.

“Daviss County sheriff’s deputies said that Ms Tramel, 31, was arrested on a misdemeanour count of public intoxication but later in custody allegedly sprayed a stream of breast milk into the face of a female deputy.

The sheriff’s office said that the deputy went through a “biohazard” decontamination process after the incident and that Ms Tramel was subsequently booked on an additional charge of third degree assault on a police officer, a felony.”

Thats a new one!