Zar club closed
Zar to close down: the night spot being one of Johannesburg’s most popular clubs, is reportedly, closing down.
According to one source, Kunene and his business partner, Gayton McKenzie, were allegedly not able to pay the rent for their luxurious rooftop club because the pair had blown their money “giving free drinks to clients all the time”.
zar club closing down
Speaking to City Press, ex-con Kunene laughed off allegations of outstanding rental fees, stating that his move to shut up shop was “based purely on the property owners wanting to extend the building”.
“How can I spend R20m on a project – leasing the place and furnishing it – only to be kicked out? I even installed a private lift last year so that my clientele could go straight from the parking to the club,” said Kunene.
“We are moving our business elsewhere to a bigger space,” he said.
‘Going out with a bang’
A former ZAR employee told City Press that the Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel, where ZAR occupies the rooftop, was not on good terms with the club owners because the club had “cost” them their clients.
“The hotel suffered. No one wanted to go there because their wives would suspect them of going to the club. People also could not hang out in peace with their mistresses for fear that they’ll be caught on camera,” said the source.
But the Radisson’s general manager, Erica Olivier, vehemently denied the allegations. “No, no, no! There is nothing like that. ZAR is a tenant on the premises like we are. These rumours are totally not true. All we know is that the club wanted more space and the property owners could not give it the club,” she said.
Hendrik Breitenbach, spokesperson for property owners Savannah Properties, also dismissed the rumours of rental woes.
Kunene says he plans to “throw a shit party” for the closing.
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Fastest Car In The World 2012
1. Worlds fastest car: Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
Designed and developed by the German Volkswagen Group and produced by Bugatti Automobiles SAS at their headquarters in Château St. Jean in Molsheim, the Veyron’s chief designer was Hartmut Warkuss, and the exterior was designed by Jozef Kaba? of Volkswagen, with much of the engineering work being conducted under the guidance of former Peterbilt engineer and now Bugatti Engineering chief Wolfgang Schreiber.
Bugatti Veyron
The car is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti company. It was named Car of the Decade (2000–2009) by the BBC television programme Top Gear. With a speed of 267 mph, 0-60 in 2.4 secs. Aluminum, Narrow Angle 8 Liter W16 Engine with 1200 hp, base price is
R18.6000372 million
Bugatti Veyron
2. Koenigsegg Agera R: 260 mph, 0-60 in 2.9 secs. 5.0-liter V8 Engine with twin turbo’s, housing 1099 hp. Base price is $1,600,000. If you’re into snow sports, the Agera R can be fitted with a Ski Box as well as winter tires, not that I would take one on a ski trip or anything like that. While the Agera R has a massive theoretical top speed, the current tested top speed is 260 mph. Expect this snow car to be the Bugatti’s arch enemy for the next 5 years.
both at #2
2. Hennessey Venom GT: 260 mph, 0-60 in 2.5 seconds, has a 6.2-liter LS9 Turbocharged V8 Twin Turbo V8 Engine producing 1200 hp, has a price tag of $950,000. The Venom GT has yet to be tested and proven, but could possibly hit a top speed of 275 mph. This might just be the Veyron Super Sport’s closest competitor!
3. SSC Ultimate Aero: 257 mph, 0-60 in 2.7 secs. Twin-Turbo V8 Engine with 1183 hp, base price is $654,400. Tested in March 2007 by Guinness World Records, The SSC Ultimate Aero was the fastest car in the world from March 2007 to July 2010. On March 2011, the Koenigsegg Agera R also surpassed it, forcing this American made car to the #3 spot. Shelby SuperCars will continue their quest to reclaim the fastest car title, and their new SSC Tuatura might do the job (we’ll just have to wait).
4. Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo: 248 mph, 0-60 in 2.8 secs. Twin Turbo All Aluminum V8 Engine with 750 hp, base price is $555,000. Smooth and bad-ass. It will make you want to show it off non-stop.
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Money online: Make Money Programs-
There are thousands of make money programs available online from paid surveys, paid to surf, affiliate programs, earn money online cash back sites, and various other opportunities. The majority of these make money programs will not deliver what they promise? The key to making money online is knowing exactly how and where to start. Without the right advice you could end up wasting precious time and money.
Making money from affiliate programs
Making money from affiliate programs has to be probably the most popular way to make money on the Internet. Millions of people all around the world are currently making money using some kind of affiliate programs online. After standard advertising, affiliate programs have to be the most popular way of making money from your website. The idea of an affiliate program is simple – you link to a shop directly on your website, and any sales that you manage to generate from your affiliate link will earn you a commission. This rate of commission is dependant on your relationship with that affiliate website. Some affiliates might earn %5 of the final value of the sale, others might earn %20. It will depend entirely on the shop that you are linking to. One of the great things about affiliate programs is that there are so many of them to choose from – meaning that no-matter what the subject of your website is, you are sure to be able to find an affiliate program that suits your site. This will enable you to earn an impressive amount of money from linking to online retailers directly from your own personal webspace.
Make Money With Google AdSense
In order to make money with AdSense, you first need to understand how it works. AdSense is a simple ad-publishing tool that can be incorporated into a variety of online mediums and displays ads based on the keywords within the existing text on the page. Every time a visitor to your site clicks on an ad published in your data, you are paid some money. Hence it is called PPC or Pay-Per-Click Advertising. This is usually a figure in cents or pennies, and the exact figure depends most of all on how competitive and profitable your keywords are. Your site’s traffic has a great impact on how much you can earn from it — it’s not the whole truth either. Most importantly, it should not be viewed as a reason to give up on AdSense, because, as popular bloggers themselves have proven: when it works, it works like a charm!
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The winner of 17 Billboard Music Awards, nine ASCAP awards, eight Soul Train Music Awards and five Grammy Awards is coming to South Africa. Yes Usher will set foot in Johannesburg.
Although two of Usher concerts in South Africa have been cancelled due to “unavoidable scheduling and logistical challenges”. The R&B singer was due to perform at both the Cape Town and Durban legs of the Hansa Festival of Legends tour in March (12). But now the gigs have been scrapped, officials from organisers Big Concerts announced on Monday (23Jan12).
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Investing 2012
So what does investing mean, as many people seem to use the word loosely for any potential money making activity. To some it could be depositing your money into a savings account, maybe buying shares on the stock exchange, some think it’s buying a new car or maybe owning livestock?
“Investing” means a lot of things to various people but in basic lay man terms an investment is an asset (any class) which some form economic benefit can be accumulated. You won’t find this definition in any textbook but that is what investing boils down to. So if you can derive some form of economic benefit from an asset then that’s a investment. The series of articles will have a keen focus on investing on the stock exchange, contrary to popular belief investing in public companies is possibly one the easiest and most diverse investment opportunities in the financial system.
Although many people might believe the stock exchange provides a asset classes preserved for only the nerdy, tie wearing, boring and rich individuals who we see on T.V screens and newspapers time and time again telling us how the world is coming to an end because of some financial crisis or another. However the Stock Exchange, in South Africa being the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) located in Sandton Johannesburg, offers easily accessible, endless wealth creation opportunities for majority of unaware South Africans. I will attempt to decipher the investment game in simple language with minimal industry jargon, however not advising but rather informing the novice of the many instruments available on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to South Africans looking to accumulate wealth and also debunk the misconception and mystery behind investing on the stock exchange.
As a personal investor there are many dynamics to consider when looking to investing in to the stock exchange firstly you must clearly define your investment motive, that is are you looking for a long term (10 or more years), medium (3 to 5 years) or short term (2years or less) investment. As a non-professional investor looking to make a quick buck over six month period is not such a good idea, long term investment returns are the best way to go for a non-professional investor, with very little time and expertise your chances of making money are non-existent.
Secondly your monthly or lump sum budget should be determined, can you afford to contribute R100 a month, R100 000 lump sum upfront or maybe “money ain’t a thing” as some would say and your budget is not capped. If budget is not a factor hiring a stockbroker is the way to go and we shall delve further into the detail at a later stage. But if budget
constraints are a factor like it is for majority of the country’s population don’t despair as the (JSE) is your oyster with various trading platforms providing access to invest in listed companies directly and indirectly, suitable for a range of income groups.
Thirdly as an investor you must understand risk, just like in life the riskiest decisions made have the greatest returns and the worst consequences if the wrong decision is taken. Simply put you must understand the consequences of your investment decisions. Nothing is guaranteed when it comes to the investment game anything can happen the best we can do is take calculated educated guesses and by educated meaning awareness rather than a Phd in Economics, to mitigate the risk.
by Bloogle
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According to the November 2011 Effective Measure statistics, News24 attracted 3,065,529 unique visitors last month, well ahead of its closest rivals Howzit.MSN with 1,825,136 unique visitors and IOL with 1,812,074 unique visitors.
When looking at local-only traffic the same three websites topped the rankings. News24 is ranked at number 1 with 2,007,587 unique visitors, followed by Howzit.MSN (1,586,159) and IOL (975,345).
News24 also has the largest mobile (mobi) website with 941,296 unique monthly visitors, followed by Vodafone Live (766,585) and SuperSport mobile (673,639).
The following tables list the top ranked South African websites according to total unique monthly visitors and local visitors.
| Total traffic | ||
| Website | Unique Visitors | Page Views |
| News24 | 3,065,529 | 44,493,873 |
| Howzit.MSN | 1,825,136 | 27,409,274 |
| IOL | 1,812,074 | 20,871,435 |
| MyBroadband | 945,013 | 5,814,001 |
| Sport24 | 883,931 | 7,881,606 |
| SuperSport | 864,039 | 13,066,892 |
| TimesLive | 850,677 | 7,212,630 |
| JunkMail | 819,996 | 21,016,436 |
| Webmail | 733,327 | 30,051,718 |
| Vodacom | 672,340 | 9,775,951 |
| Local traffic | ||
| Website | Unique Visitors | Page Views |
| News24 | 2,083,468 | 37,551,923 |
| Howzit.MSN | 1,596,875 | 24,891,440 |
| IOL | 1,060,564 | 16,681,033 |
| Webmail | 666,152 | 27,858,045 |
| Junkmail | 641,456 | 16,938,020 |
| Sport24 | 634,995 | 5,932,709 |
| Vodacom | 624,604 | 9,333,530 |
| MWEB | 584,445 | 14,219,951 |
| Privateproperty | 575,935 | 15,487,426 |
| Property24 | 533,381 | 14,182,380 |
| MyBroadband | 518,229 | 4,497,546 |
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Afrigator closed down
Afrigator was launched in the golden age of blogging in South Africa, and at its peak the website indexed thousands of African blogs, podcasts and videos.
Afrigator, an African social media aggregator which was launched in 2007, closed down on 1 December 2011.
In September 2008 the Naspers division MIH Print Africa acquired a majority stake in Afrigator which brought additional funding and further developed the Afrigator platform. However, the relationship did not last, and the owners of Afrigator bought back their shares at a later stage.
Afrigator also ran Adgator – an advertising network launched in late 2008 which helped African blogs to monetise their traffic through a service similar to Google Adsense. Adgator closed down in September 2011.
“About two months ago we closed Adgator down due to declining revenue and a core shift in focus for the four shareholders involved. Due to all of us having other interests Adgator became more of a burden than asset,” explained Afrigator founder Justin Hartman.
Justin Hartman
“Afrigator was closed down essentially to avoid the recurring costs of running the operation. The hosting bill to run Afrigator (across a pretty intense server structure) was just too high when you consider our primary revenue stream was closed down a few months earlier.”
“It’s been 4 years and 9 months since Afrigator started and while it’s a sad time for all of us concerned it was coming and needed to be done. Businesses don’t fail – people give up and this is true about Afrigator. As soon as our focus shifted we could no longer focus on growing Afrigator.”
Hartman is currently the CEO of SocialCode, a digital agency which he founded in 2010 that offers a range of digital services for clients which include UNICEF, Hyundai, SuperSport, Remgro, Vodacom and Distell.
Afrigator is however not the only ‘Web 2.0’ startup which did not last. Muti, an African bookmarking website similar to Digg and Reddit, changed into an online directory recently.
Despite receiving numerous accolades locally and internationally, Muti failed to attract the critical mass needed to make a social networking website successful.
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Design:
Undoubtedly, Nokia has churned out some fantastic hardware in recent years. Take the N8 and E7, respectively at the top of their game when it comes to product design with beautiful annodised alluminum chasis’ and confident, bold shapes that just work in the hand, in the pocket and to the eye. We therefore have high expectations from the Nokia N9′s AMOLED bevelled glass display,high-grade coloured plastic encasing,not to mention the slab’s abundance of personality.
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Don’t Regret Not Dressing in White
At its core music always has a purpose. Whether you know it or not, the origination and purpose of Hip Hop music was to inspire, motivate and educate. It is essentially about the life we live, the transfer of information and to stand up for our own destiny or a cause. So with Hip Hop Heavyweight and Grammy nominee Drake performing as the featured act for one night in Mzansi at the intimate and exclusive Castle Lite Feel the Beat of Subzero Experience on Friday the 9th of December, Castle Lite is inviting the 4000 fans who attend, to stand up for their own purpose strictly dressing all in white in support for No Regret Friday.
“No Regret Friday is a movement started by SAB in July 2011, which was created to encourage South Africans to rethink their reckless attitude to drinking and driving,” comments Julian Coulter, General Manager for Castle Lite. “Music is powerful, and is able to drive a message home; we hope that by having everyone who attends the ‘Feel the Beat of Subzero Experience’ all dressed in white, we will be able to take a stand against drinking and driving.”
With a cause to stand up for, Drake as the featured artist and local performers including Kuli Chana, Mi Casa, George the Beatboxer and DJ’s Switch, Sphectacula, Naves and Naked DJ on the decks, the 9th of December is most certainly going to be totally ICE.
Notes to the Editor:
For more information regarding Castle Lite Feel the Beat of Subzero and Drake, please contact the press office below.
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Free water will be given to all fans who attend the Castle Lite Feel the Beat of Subzero Experience on the 9th of December
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Press office details:
Robyn David: robyn@capacityrelations.co.za
Simphiwe Majola: simphwie@capacityrelations.co.za
011 844 1010
