South Africa and indeed the world’s number 1 supermodel, Candice Swanepoel, has taken her career to even greater heights. The Victoria’s Secret model has signed on as the new face of cosmetic giant, Max Factor.
The 34th America’s Cup finals are set to start on Sept. 7. The defending champions, Oracle Team USA (lead by Oracle founder Larry Ellison), will take on Emirates Team New Zealand. These teams have spent more than $100 million each, building the fastest sailboats the race has ever seen, the AC72.
Everyone has heard of the ultra exclusive American Express Black card. Have you ever wondered how you can get your hands on one? Actually called the American Express Centurion Black card, it is available to users by invitation only. Now listen to this..
The season 4 trailer for Downton Abbey was released over the weekend, and we have it for you right here! The Countess of Grantham kicks it off with ”You have a straightforward choice, you must choose either death or life.”
Jeffrey Bezos is one of the richest men in the world. He’s the CEO of Amazon and soon to be new owner of The Washington Post. We’re looking forward to see the changes he brings to the newspaper, aiming for what he calls a “golden era”.
Deshnee Subramany and Mmanaledi Mataboge from Mail & Guardian discuss a former ANN7 editor who says he fears for his life. They discuss allegations of political interference at ANN7, threats against staff and secret meetings between Jacob Zuma and Atul Gupta.
This is the first episode of the amazingly hilarious Dick Fowler, PI series of commercials, commissioned by Farmers’ Insurance.
Mr. Tloubatla successfully outbid several others to land the half-built house for a little over a million under its estimated worth. Super excited as he was he slapped down a R1 million deposit and started looking forward to a lavish lifestyle living in the mansion. Too bad he didn’t talk to his financial manager about it first. Four months after he won the bid he’s had to cancel it and forfeit the deposit due to lack of funds.
World mountain bike champ, Greg Minnaar, will be on 2oceansvibe Radio today at 12 o;’ clock. So make sure you tune in to the Just Josie show at www.2ov.fm. Send questions for Greg to josie@2oceansviberadio.com or tweet to @2ovfm
In the past, poverty has been blamed on the individual’s bad decisions, lack of motivation and personal issues. However, this study suggests its all got to do with the situation they’re in. Poverty leads to bad decisions, which leads to more poverty.
Sarah Evans from Mail & Guardian discusses why the navy believes the country needs its multi billion-rand frigates, and what developments we can expect.
If you’re going to sale across the ocean of life without a worry in the world, you need a very, very big ship. This place is so big it has a separate Aksa generator that keeps a battery backup system fully charged so that this home can run independently of any municipal services if necessary. Oh, and we forgot to mention – it has direct access to the beach. Just like a tiny cottage.
Remember how bad the acting was in the last Samsung ad? College Humor has taken the liberty of summing up all the reasons why every tech ad you’ve ever seen is the same. There are a lot of bright lights, like a lot, and repetition, did we mention the bright lights? And check out all of these young people, they have really interesting and creative jobs.
eToro gives you the opportunity to cut your teeth in the world of stock trading by following and copying the trades of the users with the best results. And if you get to the point where you’re really good, you might find that thousands of people begin copying your trades
Here’s something to show your Stellenbosch friends. Episode seven of the third series of smash hit legal series, Suits sets UCT as the background context for a character in that episode. As you’ll see in this clip, UCT gets airtime.
Good morning. The sun has risen once more, so obviously there’s yet another balls-up from our favourite news channel, ANN7. Check it out. After the Gupta TV production team slipped up yet again and failed to play the audio for a segment, the on-screen presenter had enough. Instead of hearing music overlay of the news segment we hear a clearly frustrated, “Hayibo, guys!”
Australian surf brand, Billabong, has declared its flagship brand value to be zero. Four other brands the company now also values at nothing are: Element, Palmers, Beachculture and Amazon.
Facebook is paying out $20 million (R208,899,974) in damages to users who had their personal details used in ads on the site. Even though the details of 150 million Facebook users were used in sponsored stories, only the 614,000 who responded to an email earlier this year will be getting compensation. In a settlement reached […]
The Rand is getting whipped like a red-headed stepchild, right now. Overnight the Rand tumbled to a four year low against the US dollar. Don’t even look at the Euro exchange rate. It’ll tingle your loins.
Advertising is everywhere these days. You don’t even realise how many ads you see in a day, but it can be around 4,000 if you get out enough, or spend enough time on the web. Some companies, however, have built such a name for themselves and developed such a following that they don’t need to advertise.
Madonna has topped the latest celebrity earnings list, which has raised more than a few pairs of eyebrows considering that her latest album flopped. So how did she make a whopping $125 million between June 2012 and June 2013 you ask?
Simon Cowell has been joined by his baby mama in St. Tropez, and the two have been putting on quite a show with their over the top PDA. This must be a slap in the face to Lauren’s now ex-husband, and Simon’s now ex-friend, Andrew Silverman. We gotta hand it to them, they look happy. […]
Trump University promised its students they would receive “individual instruction until they made their first deal.” Instead, all they got was a picture taken in front of a life-sized cardboard cut-out of the floppy haired Apprentice star, and thousands of dollars of debt resting uncomfortably on their shoulders.
One can only imagine that the executive producer of this hot mess is reaching Hitler/Bunker levels of desperation, as the misery storm that is Africa News Network 7 continues to spiral toward the earth – a fuselage without wings, captained by a corpse. CLICK HERE and HERE… AND HERE for yesterday’s ANN7 fails. Do you work […]
Which means that it’s sitting somewhere on a scale between “appalling” and “this is a spoof commissioned by a reddit subthread”. We particularly enjoyed the neat categorisation of the clueless housewife, gaming asian guy, and bored porn addict/ponzi scheme architect.
Merthyr Town, in Wales, home of The Martyrs football team and their stadium, Penydarren Park will undergo a name-change to appease their latest sponsors, a electronic cigarette company. By September, the stadium will officially be called…wait for it….The Cigg-e Stadium.
Africa News Network 7, or ANN7 for short, launched last night complete with Zulu dancers, a Zahara solo and complete confusion on Twitter. ANN7 is the brand new 24-hour news channel on DStv, funded by the Gupta family.
This runaway-train-on-fire is reaching such exquisite levels of ineptitude that we are now wholly convinced that the entire enterprise is a subversive satirical comedy channel to rival the best in the world. Take this ANN7 job ad, for example.
Two local 20-something entrepreneurs have developed a bona-fide smart phone ideally suited to our local context where smartphones are expensive to buy, and data isn’t cheap. Dream Mobile tackles both of those problems.
The man who lost $550 million when he bought and sold MySpace is chasing the younger, edgier crowd again. This time, Rupert Murdoch has purchased a 5% stake in Vice Media for $70 million. And this time, we think he’s got a winner!