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England Lost to Spain Because of Details, Not Destiny, and Kane's Slip Said It All

England Lost to Spain Because of Details, Not Destiny, and Kane’s Slip Said It All

September 28, 2026
Gakpo's Late Equalizer Was the Only Honest Result in Amsterdam

Gakpo’s Late Equalizer Was the Only Honest Result in Amsterdam

September 25, 2026
Man City Are Top After 5-3 Over Sunderland, and the Defence Should Scare You

Man City Are Top After 5-3 Over Sunderland, and the Defence Should Scare You

September 22, 2026
Brentford 3-0 Chelsea: Two Billion Pounds of Talent, Two Shots on Target

Brentford 3-0 Chelsea: Two Billion Pounds of Talent, Two Shots on Target

September 19, 2026
Leeds Didn't Just Beat Newcastle, They Outran Them Into Third Place

Leeds Didn’t Just Beat Newcastle, They Outran Them Into Third Place

September 15, 2026
Man Utd's 4-0 Win Over Sabah Was About Sesko, Not the Scoreline

Man Utd’s 4-0 Win Over Sabah Was About Sesko, Not the Scoreline

September 12, 2026
Chelsea Deserved More Against Arsenal, and That's Exactly the Problem

Chelsea Deserved More Against Arsenal, and That’s Exactly the Problem

September 8, 2026
City Paid £125m for Enzo Fernández Because Chelsea Forgot How Deadlines Work

City Paid £125m for Enzo Fernández Because Chelsea Forgot How Deadlines Work

September 3, 2026
Messi Wrote His Argentina Goodbye in July and Waited Six Weeks to Post It

Messi Wrote His Argentina Goodbye in July and Waited Six Weeks to Post It

September 1, 2026
Cherki and Haaland Just Made the Post-Pep Era Feel Very Real

Cherki and Haaland Just Made the Post-Pep Era Feel Very Real

August 29, 2026
Alonso's Chelsea Debut Delivers a 3-2 Classic Built on Flawed Foundations

Alonso’s Chelsea Debut Delivers a 3-2 Classic Built on Flawed Foundations

August 26, 2026
APAC's Luxury Wellness Boom Will Belong to Resorts That Open the Gate
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APAC’s Luxury Wellness Boom Will Belong to Resorts That Open the Gate

Marriott's luxury division surveyed 1,750 high-net-worth travellers across Singapore, Australia, Japan and Indonesia this month, and 90% of them now factor wellness into how they book. The industry is reading…
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Posted by Martha Ottonan September 19, 2026
Jalen Brunson Hosted SNL Like a Point Guard, and His Teammates Bailed Him Out
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Jalen Brunson Hosted SNL Like a Point Guard, and His Teammates Bailed Him Out

Jalen Brunson became the first Knick ever to host Saturday Night Live on Saturday night, and he approached the job exactly the way he plays fourth quarters, refusing to force…
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Posted by Martha Ottonan September 27, 2026
Blood Legacy Season 2 Proves the Future of SA Television Sounds Like isiZulu
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Blood Legacy Season 2 Proves the Future of SA Television Sounds Like isiZulu

Blood Legacy Season 2 landed on Netflix this past Friday with all twenty episodes dumped at once, and the easy story is the Ndlovu family tearing itself apart over a…
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Posted by Kevin Orwa September 27, 2026
Novotel's Longevity Week Ended Sunday. Now Comes the Hard Part.
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Novotel’s Longevity Week Ended Sunday. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Novotel timed its first global Longevity Week to week 37 of the calendar because improving 1% a day compounds to roughly 37x over a year. The math is the kind…
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Posted by Martha Ottonan September 14, 2026
Glowmads Are Real, but the Glow Might Not Survive the Flight
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Glowmads Are Real, but the Glow Might Not Survive the Flight

Travel used to be something you recovered from. Now a growing slice of Gen Z books the recovery first and the destination second. Skyscanner's 2026 trends report put a name…
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Posted by Martha Ottonan September 10, 2026
Owen Ndlovu Is Laid to Rest Today, but His Fight Isn't Finished
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Owen Ndlovu Is Laid to Rest Today, but His Fight Isn’t Finished

Owen Ndlovu is being buried today at Westpark Cemetery after a funeral service in Lenasia South, nine days after he was found shot dead beside a road in Thokoza. The…
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Posted by Kevin Orwa September 25, 2026
Samsung’s Fold8 Lineup Is Two Different Phones for Two Different South African Buyers
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Samsung’s Fold8 Lineup Is Two Different Phones for Two Different South African Buyers

Samsung's 2026 foldables have been on South African shelves for about two weeks, and after proper time with the full lineup, including a very crowded 947 Joburg Day at Crocodile…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 6, 2026
September 2026’s Release Deluge Is Less a Gift Than a Scheduling Crisis
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September 2026’s Release Deluge Is Less a Gift Than a Scheduling Crisis

Four major releases in twenty-two days. The Blood of Dawnwalker landed September 3, Onimusha: Way of the Sword followed a day later, Marvel's Wolverine arrives September 15, and Silent Hill:…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 6, 2026
The iPhone Ultra’s $2,500 Price Looks Settled, Its Production Doesn’t
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The iPhone Ultra’s $2,500 Price Looks Settled, Its Production Doesn’t

Everyone is arguing about whether $2,500 is too much for a foldable iPhone. It's the wrong argument. The pricing has been effectively public for over a week, and the number…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 5, 2026
Jim Thornton Got Fired. The Police Never Even Charged Him.
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Jim Thornton Got Fired. The Police Never Even Charged Him.

Jim Thornton announced Wheel of Fortune for fifteen years. Sony Pictures Television ended that on September 4 with a brief statement and the phrase "effective immediately," a day after passenger…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 5, 2026
The M6 Mac mini Is Great Hardware at the Wrong Price for South Africa
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The M6 Mac mini Is Great Hardware at the Wrong Price for South Africa

Apple launched the M6 Mac mini as quietly as it launches anything. A press release on August 25, pre-orders the same day, a product page appearing on the local store…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 5, 2026
GTA 6’s Netflix Premiere Was Appointment Television by Design
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GTA 6’s Netflix Premiere Was Appointment Television by Design

Rockstar didn't hand the GTA 6 Extended Look to Netflix because it needed reach. A plain YouTube drop would have pulled tens of millions of views anyway. The six-hour Netflix…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 5, 2026
Gemini Voice Comes to Gmail, Docs, and Keep, and the Best Part Costs Extra
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Gemini Voice Comes to Gmail, Docs, and Keep, and the Best Part Costs Extra

Google switched on voice AI across three of its most-used apps this week, and the rollout reveals more about Google's strategy than any press release does. Gmail Live, Docs Live,…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 5, 2026
Xiaomi’s 18 Fold Is the Most Interesting Foldable You Can’t Actually Buy
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Xiaomi’s 18 Fold Is the Most Interesting Foldable You Can’t Actually Buy

Foldables have spent five years converging on the same tall, narrow book shape, and I'd stopped expecting anyone to question it. Then Xiaomi put a cherry red 18 Fold on…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 4, 2026
Tirelo Kale’s Lobola Is Done, But Mzansi Is Fighting About the Wrong Thing
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Tirelo Kale’s Lobola Is Done, But Mzansi Is Fighting About the Wrong Thing

On Thursday, 3 September 2026, Mpumelelo "Sbindi" Mseleku finally paid lobola for Tirelo Kale, the mother of his son Singabakho and his partner since around 2021. Tirelo confirmed it herself…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 4, 2026
Gloria Steinem’s Death Brought Polite Tributes and a Fight She Would Have Enjoyed
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Gloria Steinem’s Death Brought Polite Tributes and a Fight She Would Have Enjoyed

The tributes landed within hours. Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Meghan Markle, Nancy Pelosi, each posting a polished paragraph about a trailblazer who changed everything. Then I did what I always do…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 4, 2026
Astra Is a Genuine Leap, but OpenAI’s AGI Claim Outruns the Evidence
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Astra Is a Genuine Leap, but OpenAI’s AGI Claim Outruns the Evidence

OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra yesterday, and before the launch briefing wrapped up, president Greg Brockman was calling it a generational leap into the AGI era. I've spent the past day…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 4, 2026
South Africa’s 17% Smartphone Growth Is a Price Story, Not a Boom
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South Africa’s 17% Smartphone Growth Is a Price Story, Not a Boom

Africa's smartphone market just posted its first decline in three years, and South Africa grew 17% straight through it. If you read that as a boom, I understand the instinct.…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 3, 2026
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s 8-Player Update Is Nintendo’s Weirdest Gift in Years
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s 8-Player Update Is Nintendo’s Weirdest Gift in Years

Nintendo shipped the strangest, most delightful update of the week with zero buildup. No Direct, no trailer, not even a tease. Version 4.0.0 of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe went live…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 3, 2026
The Poco F9 Ultra Is a Battery With a Phone Wrapped Around It
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The Poco F9 Ultra Is a Battery With a Phone Wrapped Around It

Poco launched the F9 Pro and F9 Ultra globally on September 1, and I've spent the two days since ignoring the camera talk and staring at two numbers. 6,330mAh on…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 3, 2026
The Lizzo Lawsuit Is Dead. The Vindication Tour Should Wait
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The Lizzo Lawsuit Is Dead. The Vindication Tour Should Wait

Two years of legal fighting ended quietly on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha granted summary judgment and wiped out every remaining claim in Asha Daniels' lawsuit against Big…
Posted by Sibusiso Tebogo September 3, 2026
City Paid £125m for Enzo Fernández Because Chelsea Forgot How Deadlines Work
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City Paid £125m for Enzo Fernández Because Chelsea Forgot How Deadlines Work

Deadline day finally produced the deal this window was always building towards. Manchester City confirmed the signing of Enzo Fernández from Chelsea for £125m on 1 September, a joint-British record…
Posted by Sibusiso Tebogo September 3, 2026
De Mthuda’s Noise EP Is a Masterclass in Patience the Charts Can’t Measure
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De Mthuda’s Noise EP Is a Masterclass in Patience the Charts Can’t Measure

De Mthuda released Noise on 7 August, eight tracks and roughly 55 minutes of them, and a month later the project still hasn't muscled its way up the daily SA…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 3, 2026
Why the Loudest Arena in America Hosted the Quietest Wedding of the Year
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Why the Loudest Arena in America Hosted the Quietest Wedding of the Year

The most-watched wedding of 2026 has produced exactly one official image so far: a five-second close-up of a gold ring on a podcast. On Tuesday's New Heights season premiere, Travis…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 3, 2026
Google Dodged the Ad Tech Breakup. Now Watch Whether the Fine Print Has Teeth.
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Google Dodged the Ad Tech Breakup. Now Watch Whether the Fine Print Has Teeth.

So Google gets to keep AdX. And DFP. And, frankly, most of the ad tech empire the Justice Department spent years trying to pry apart. Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected all…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 3, 2026
OpenAI’s $1 Billion Ad Business Is Growing Faster Than Its Numbers Can Prove
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OpenAI’s $1 Billion Ad Business Is Growing Faster Than Its Numbers Can Prove

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads crossed a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate on Monday, fewer than 200 days after the US pilot launched in early February. Google needed roughly four…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 2, 2026
Samsung’s Blue Tag Sale Is an Ecosystem Play With Genuine Discounts Attached
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Samsung’s Blue Tag Sale Is an Ecosystem Play With Genuine Discounts Attached

Spring in South Africa means two things, jacarandas and Samsung's Blue Tag Sale. The 2026 edition runs until 27 September and the headline numbers are genuinely strong, R4,000 off a…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 2, 2026
GTA 6’s Netflix Premiere Topped the Charts and Briefly Broke Netflix
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GTA 6’s Netflix Premiere Topped the Charts and Briefly Broke Netflix

Thirty-one million people watched a gameplay trailer on Netflix last week. Not a film, not a new season of a flagship drama, a 27-minute slice of Grand Theft Auto VI,…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 2, 2026
The Ternus Era Opens With Apple’s Riskiest iPhone Bet Yet
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The Ternus Era Opens With Apple’s Riskiest iPhone Bet Yet

Apple's "Surprise and shine" invite for September 9 dropped last Wednesday, and the lineup is already the worst kept secret in tech. The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 2, 2026
Blue Wellness Holidays Are Booming, and Most of Them Miss the Point
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Blue Wellness Holidays Are Booming, and Most of Them Miss the Point

Wellness tourism passed the trillion-dollar mark this year, and the industry has picked its next mascot: water. Not the tiled-pool kind. We're talking seas, rivers, lakes, hot springs, and slow…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 2, 2026
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That Anele Zondo and L-Tido SAMA Kiss Says More About Us Than Them

Two people kissed on a stage at Sun City and half of Mzansi needed a moment to recover. That’s the short version of SAMA32. On 15 August, Anele Zondo and…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 2, 2026
Jim Thornton Is Suspended and Sony Won’t Say What Happened on Flight 1276
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Jim Thornton Is Suspended and Sony Won’t Say What Happened on Flight 1276

Fifteen years of reading prize copy and puzzle intros, and Jim Thornton's voice vanished from Wheel of Fortune in a single statement. On Monday, Sony Pictures Television confirmed it had…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 2, 2026
Apple Didn’t Name a Successor, It Split the CEO Job in Two
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Apple Didn’t Name a Successor, It Split the CEO Job in Two

For the first time since 2011, someone other than Tim Cook is running Apple. John Ternus took the CEO chair on September 1, Cook moved into an executive chairman role,…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 2, 2026
GTA 6’s 30fps Lock Isn’t the Scandal Everyone Thinks It Is
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GTA 6’s 30fps Lock Isn’t the Scandal Everyone Thinks It Is

Rockstar dropped 26 minutes of Grand Theft Auto VI footage on Netflix last Wednesday, confirmed the game runs at 30fps on every console including the PS5 Pro, and somehow the…
Posted by Mark Grantt September 1, 2026
The Mate XT 2 Adopts the Tri-Fold Design Samsung Already Gave Up On
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The Mate XT 2 Adopts the Tri-Fold Design Samsung Already Gave Up On

Huawei opened pre-orders for the Mate XT 2 yesterday morning in China, a 1,000 yuan deposit through the company's official online store, with the full reveal set for September 7.…
Posted by Morman Tebolo September 1, 2026
The $20 Million Was the Easy Part of Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields
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The $20 Million Was the Easy Part of Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields

Charity festivals have a habit of feeling like guilt with a side of overpriced water. Daisy Chain Fields, Olivia Rodrigo's one-day festival at Great Park in Irvine, mostly dodged that…
Posted by Sibusiso Tebogo September 1, 2026
Messi Wrote His Argentina Goodbye in July and Waited Six Weeks to Post It
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Messi Wrote His Argentina Goodbye in July and Waited Six Weeks to Post It

The most revealing thing about Lionel Messi's retirement isn't anything he wrote in his farewell note. It's the date he wrote it. July 21, two days after Argentina lost the…
Posted by Sibusiso Tebogo September 1, 2026
Khethiwe Is Coming Back Broke, and That’s Exactly What Generations Needs
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Khethiwe Is Coming Back Broke, and That’s Exactly What Generations Needs

Twelve years after the 2014 exit that gutted the original show, Winnie Ntshaba is slipping back into Khethiwe Buthelezi's heels. SABC1 made it official on 27 August, and the first…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 1, 2026
Howard Stern on HBO Max Is a Highlight Reel, Not a Streaming Coup
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Howard Stern on HBO Max Is a Highlight Reel, Not a Streaming Coup

The Howard Stern HBO Max deal is confirmed, and the press materials want you to see a radio legend finally conquering television. I see something else. One live show a…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 1, 2026

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