Move over, Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson — the unknown author is making an impact on the cookbook market.
It took 2 000 people to put together 1 600 people for Nelson Mandela’s birthday party in Sandton on Saturday night.
Idi Amin, whose 1971 to 1979 reign in Uganda was one of the bloodiest in Africa’s modern history, is in a coma and on a life support machine in Saudi Arabia, one of his wives said on Saturday.
Conventional wisdom insists that nations ruled by Communist parties are regimented, unimaginative failures. Yet nowhere on earth is changing so fast and on such a scale as in China.
Ambition made Bob Guccione. And ambition did for him in the end. The Penthouse publisher who built a publishing empire out of naked flesh is facing financial ruin, the result of a series of catastrophically egotistical investments that sucked millions of dollars out of his main business — pornography.
Kim Jong Il’s hunger for a nuclear bomb may be the concern of diplomats and politicians, but it is the North Korean leader’s alleged taste for fine wine, gourmet sushi and naked dancing girls that is setting tongues wagging in Japan.
Drones, or pilotless aircraft, are becoming a favourite weapon of the Americans. The machines used to be limited to photographic reconnaissance.
In the movie Mr Bones, the lead character, a white guy who for some reason ends up as the chief traditional healer for some black tribe, gave some insight into our fascination with race, particularly regarding white kids who are raised in black communities.
Despite coaching his side to its heaviest defeat ever on home soil at Loftus on Saturday, Springbok coach Rudolf Straeuli insisted that it was not time to panic.