MZANSI YOUTH SAY BLACKBERRY IS DA COOLEST DUDE!

South Africa’s youth has named BlackBerry, the country’s leading smartphone brand, as the ‘Coolest Brand Overall’ in the Sunday Times Generation Next 2011 Brand Survey Awards. BlackBerry also took top honours in the ‘Coolest Cellphone’, ‘Coolest High-Tech Gadget’ categories and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) was named ‘Best Cellphone Application’.

PIRATES LOSING BATTLE

South Africa is making head way in the fight against piracy. The country’s piracy rate remained at 35% despite the doubling of the PC market in 2010, while the commercial value of unlicensed software installed on personal computers in South Africa reached over R3.6 billion last year. This according to the Business Software Alliance’s (BSA) 2010 Global Software Piracy Study, a survey which evaluates the state of software piracy around the world.

THREE NEW SAMA HOSTS TO REPLACE TREVOR NOAH

And the new MTN South African Music Awards 17 presenters are…(drum roll)…Phat Joe and Bonang Matheba! Yes ladies and gents, show up at the SAMAs this month and be entertained by the Phat one and your girl Miss B from the BEE hive. But that’s not all. Sizwe Dhlomo is joining them too! The three replaced the hilarious Trevor Noah who really put the SAMAs back on the map as an entertainment event. How these two will show him up remains a mystery.

MOVIE REVIEW: FAST & FURIOUS 5 (FAST 5)

CAST : Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Paul Walker, Ludacris

DIRECTOR : Justin Lin

Never thought I’d say this about F&F but this movie was simply awesome! Just before I get to that part, let’s slide over to the dark side for a moment. The first scene summarises Fast & Furious, the 2009 release also directed by Lin. Dominic is on a convict bus to prison and his gang busts him out. What defined this movie was the scene in which one of the gang’s cars flips a bus. In real life that would never happen. After two hours you will still be repeating that statement. The difference is, you won’t care at all because you’ll be enjoying the movie so much, you’ll wish it wasn’t ending.

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden or Usama Bin Laden or Usama Bin Ladin, depending on who you ask, has apparently been assassinated by American forces in a compound in a town of Abbottabad in Pakistan. He was quickly buried at sea, somehow, according to officials. These news broke through this morning and quickly spread like a Cape Town fire, as they would. Consequently US President Barack Obama is now an American hero, having achieved what his predecessor George W Bush could not over a period of 7 years of trying. I remember one of the first things Obama resolved to do was finding and capturing or killing Bin Laden.