Tshabalala-Msimang dies

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa’s health minister from 1999 to 2008, has died.
Professor Jeff Wing, Tshabalala-Msimang’s doctor, said she had died at the Wits University Donald Gordon Medical Centre & Medi-Clinic ICU “about a minute ago”, shortly before 3pm.
He said she had died from complications related to her first liver transplant in 2007.
Her most recent [...]

Who’s the hottest of them all?

So People magazine reckons Pirates Of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp is the sexiest man alive.
I think it’s because he plays a bad boy so well - and we all know how women love those…
Depp beat Hugh Jackman for the position. Jackman’s not half bad.
Thank goodness those Twilight boys didn’t even get a look-in…
What [...]

Beards are back in fashion…

A Tonight story says that a recent survey of more than 2 000 men and women conducted by Lynx unearthed some conclusively anti-beard statistics.
While 63 percent of men believed facial hair made them more manly and attractive, 92 percent of women said they preferred a clean-shaven man, with 95 percent complaining that facial stubble made a [...]

Top 5 lists: how we love them

The 2000  film High Fidelity,  based on a 1995 novel by Nick Hornby, tells the story of London record story ower Rob Fleming.  Rob and his employees  Dick and Barry spend their free moments constructing “top-five” lists of anything that demonstrates their knowledge of music. For instance, Rob’s Top Five Bands or Musicians Who Will [...]

One to go…

There’s only one SABC board member still standing - and she has an interesting reason for staying on…
The situation, like Gaye Davis (Indy’s deputy political editor) says, is playing out like a soap opera. On Tuesday, they refused to testify. On Thursday, another member (also resigned) practically begged for the board to be dissolved.
One [...]

Not about the soccer

The beautiful game has not been the sole focus during the Confederations Cup being held in South Africa.
The vuvuzela debate turned hot on IOL today, when we asked our readers whether they thought SA soccer would be the same without it. Our newest staff member, Kim, mentioned that she had no idea that people would [...]

No fly zone

Wax on, wax off.  That was my first thought when I read that US President Barack Obama had swatted a fly sitting on his hand. Of course, the cameras were there to record the moment.

It’s worth the 1min30 wait for the actual deed!
Now it might date me but every person who’s watched old school karate [...]

‘Never take freedom for granted’

The election results are in, we are waiting to inaugurate president-in-waiting Jacob Zuma and our news days are almost back to normal. Almost.  But I wanted to talk to you about Freedom Day and a decision that IOL took that caused some interesting feedback.
Here’s what happened when anyone clicked on a story on our home [...]