California Fires: Deadly Wildfires Sweep Through Wine Country – Parts of California’s wine region are being ravaged by fast-spreading fires that have killed at least 10 people. [bbc]
KPMG Hopes For Clean Start With New SA Leadership Team – Embattled auditor KPMG SA on Monday announced its new executive leadership team, just short of a month after its former top management structure was cleared out. [fin24]
WATCH: CPUT Cape Town Campus Burns During Protest – Protesters disrupted exams at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) on Monday, randomly using pepper-spray on some students who were writing. [iol]
Van Breda Defence May Have To Withdraw – Henri van Breda’s defence team is reaching a point where it may have to withdraw as their client is fast running out of funds, his lawyer Advocate Pieter Botha said. [news24]
Mbalula Labels Dubai Trip Allegations ‘Malicious, Smear Campaign’ – Fikile Mbalula has not revealed any details about the trip and insists there was nothing untoward. [ewn]
Stung Over Being Called A Moron, Donald Trump Now Insists NBC Is ‘Run by Morons’ – The president has a habit of taking the insults hurled his way and boomeranging them back at the hurler. [dailybeast]
Prepare For No-Deal Brexit, Theresa May Warns Britain – PM insists UK can become ‘independent trading nation’. [independent]
The Battle To Be The Best Second Hand Car In South Africa Is Now On – Navigating the second hand car industry can be a nightmare, which is why this award has been a long time coming. Time to separate the winners from the also-rans. [here]
Western Cape Takes First Steps To Ban Plastic Shopping Bags – In a motion passed at the Western Cape DA’s Provincial Congress on Saturday, the party pledged to pass legislation that would prohibit the of vest-type plastic shopping bags. [businesstech]
The Iconic Scooter, Redesigned As Five Types Of Motorcycle, Will Mess With Your Mind – The Vespa is one of the automotive world’s most iconic designs, but to push the boundaries one designer wanted to see what it would look like as other motorcycles. [here]
Cape Town’s ‘Dancing Guardjie’ Could Land A Smoking Sponsorship Deal – Cape Town’s most popular dancing taxi guard‚ or “guardjie”‚ Nathan Swartz‚ could land himself a smoking hot advertising deal. [timeslive]
Uruguay: Plane Crashes During Andes Disaster Memorial – A plane carrying two people taking part in a memorial event to mark the 1972 Andes air disaster has crashed in Uruguay, killing one of them. [bbc]
New Zealand Police Apologise For Tweeting Joke About Road Deaths – After a weekend in which nine people died on New Zealand’s road, police posted a meme featuring Steve Carrell. [guardian]
Why Do Some Capetonians Support The #AllBlacks And Not The #Springboks? – So, what’s this “Cape Crusaders” phenomenon all about? Why do some Capetonians support the All Blacks and not the Springboks? [iol]
Iceland Become Smallest Nation Ever To Qualify For World Cup Finals – Iceland sealed a place in Russia with a 2-0 victory against Kosovo in Reykjavik, becoming the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup finals. [guardian]
How ‘Mortal Kombat’ Made The Games Industry Play Politics – Mortal Kombat’ turns 25 today and its impact on the video game industry is as evident as ever. Only not in the ways you’d expect. [vice]
Jimmy Kimmel And Donald Trump Jr. Battled It Out On Twitter – The First Son has gone tweet to tweet with a late night host. [time]
Kit Harington Surprised His Fiancé With A Severed Head – Kit Harington AKA Jon Snow from ‘GoT’ is apparently a master of April Fools’ pranks. He decided to surprise Rose Leslie with prank in the fridge. Her reaction was priceless. [mashable]
It’s All In The Genes! Meet The Stunning Kardashian-Jenner Cousin Who Looks Just Like Kendall – She also happens to be an aspiring model. [dmail]
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So These Guys Are Apparently The Top SA Winery Of The Past 10 Years – You’ve tasted Chocolate Block, right? Of course you have, somake sure you arrive at every dinner party with a bottle of the best [boekenhout]
How Can You Leave Your Dog At Home While You Go To Work? – You say he’s part of the family – yet you’d never leave your human child at home, alone, for the whole day. Drop that little rascal off at Proud Hounds and see the joy in his eyes! [proudhounds]
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