There’s some competition for the 2010 “Worst media move of the year award”. There’s Julius Malema’s “bloody agents” tirade, Sepp Blatter’s let’s-arrest-good-looking-girls-in-mini-skirts moment and, of course, “don’t touch me on my studio”. Now the head of Acsa, Monhla Hlahla, joins this esteemed group.

Forget Amazon’s Kindle or the iPad, here's a novel project that’s making literacy fun and could just change the way teen literature is published in Africa. We spoke to Mobile for Literacy creator, Steve Vosloo.

The Mitsubishi and Pajero brands are synonymous with excellent all-terrain performance. After all, Pajeros dominated the gruelling Dakar rally for many years, until VW’s Touareg broke up the Mitsubishi party. The Pajero Sport, however, is not a true member of the Pajero clan – even though it’s a competent all-roader in most respects

Since 2001, when he took over as head of security at Airports Company South Africa, Paul O’Sullivan has been engaged in a single-minded endeavour to expose a group of people whose crookedness is (or was) matched only by their power. The charging on Friday of former police chief Jackie Selebi was a direct result of his actions. Now he wants the rest of the bunch brought to book, and one name on his list is Thabo Mbeki.

Political leanings aside, and even with Jeremy Clarkson on side, The Times is going to have a hard time competing with other online writing that is smart, funny and – most importantly – free.

In a week's time, the World Cup will be over and we’ll all have to face the future that depends only on us, and us alone. How about we turn it into something good? Here's what we can do.

The Web’s been in a flap over stories about Google’s new paywall initiative, Newspass, set to launch later this year. The Internet megalith believes it may just have found the answer to news companies’ prayers. Local media and Web experts are less convinced. 

Eskom has dug in its heels and says it can’t improve on its current offer to workers threatening strike action. One of its unions says it’ll go on strike, another says it is looking at whether it can strike legally. Then it all becomes both very simple and frightfully complex: how many employees will risk going on an unprotected strike, how many will Eskom be able to get across the picket line, and how long will any unprotected strike last for? Because a small change in any of those numbers could mean the difference between a warm winter and blackouts.

In early May The Daily Maverick interviewed author and investigative journalist Andrew Jennings, the guy who’s dedicated a career to proving that Fifa is an organised crime group. Turns out that Jennings smelt the rat in Australia’s World Cup 2022 bid as early as February – the same rat that the Sydney Morning Herald has just confirmed. 

Recession? What recession? While other media companies have been bleeding, bemoaning ill-fated print or crying about the downturn in advertising spend, Naspers is having a pretty good time, thank you very much.

Korean automotive brand Kia’s strength has been its ability to offer well-specced vehicles at a value-added price. But desirable and aspirational aren’t terms usually associated with the marque – until recently, that is. The latest Kia Sorento is attracting attention - and orders. But the more compact Sportage may well change the perception of Kia forever. We travelled to Korea to drive it – and to find out more about what makes Kia tick

It’s been on the cards for a decade, but less than 24 hours before broader rollout, the new system for dealing with traffic offences was delayed for at least several months. Which means that the section meant to take irresponsible drivers off the roads, the demerit points system, will also be delayed. Why? Well you’d have to ask the responsible party that question – except that there doesn’t seem to be one.

The magazine launched by Jann Wenner in the late ’60s and made famous by Hunter S. Thompson in the early ’70s has always prided itself on its agenda-setting political stories. The latest one has felled General Stanley McChrystal. Still, Rolling Stone doesn’t know how the internet works, so they gave the story away. 

Sepp says sorry about refereeing balls-ups; Mirror journalist arrested over dressing room intrusion incident; Japan fall to Paraguay on penalties; Spain win Iberian battle to advance to quarter finals; philosopher lectures footballers on ethics.

The news on Monday that the FBI had arrested 10 “Russian spies” rocked the world - in the wake of a great display of brotherly love between presidents Obama and Medvedev. However, many facts, motives and collection methods simply don't make sense.

The fight between regulators and the operators is as old as the industry itself. Welcome to the next stage, where operators finally lose their patience and tell the regulators who’s the boss.

Long, long ago in a world far, far away, the leaders of the globe's biggest economies used to meet in a private, clubby atmosphere in a scenic hotel to discuss the future of the world economy - over some good meals, some nice wines and probably a cigar or two. Then they posed for a wacky group photo, wearing those funny shirts - and that was that. It’s a much more sobering picture now.

It’s taken 10 years, but internet address regulators have finally taken the first step towards establishing .xxx, a top-level domain name intended to replace the use of .com for adult websites. If that domain is to make it into actual use, various national governments are first going to have to steamroll faith groups. And if it is to work as those governments hope, they’ll have to get pretty totalitarian about regulating the flesh business.

The three major unions in Eskom failed miserably to be reassuring on Friday, not ruling out a strike at the utility, not even during the World Cup. Not even though both the government and Eskom believe such a strike would be illegal, and not even if it means the lights go out. It just depends on exactly how angry their members are, they say.

Beware the vuvuzela, the World Cup will create more jobs, South Africa is a great candidate for the 2020 Olympic Games and other fairy stories related to Fifa’s soccer tournament our country won’t be winning.

In performance-mad South Africa, the hot hatchback is a revered mode of transport, an apparently normal vehicle that’s been tweaked to deliver dynamics good enough to embarrass the occasional sports car. Suzuki’s new Swift Sport isn’t the hottest hatch around, but it does deliver a tasty driving experience.

Predictably death was Michael Jackson’s ultimate career move and in the year since his demise, Jackson’s estate has amassed $1 billion. As the anniversary of Jackson’s death arrives and his popularity increasingly waxes, everybody wants a piece of the action.

In his emergency budget on Tuesday Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, told the country the official retirement age would increase from 65 to 66 by 2016. It was old news, but its consequences could be far-reaching.

Over the last few weeks one of the most agreeable cities in North America has been turned into a fortress town, with security measures implemented that would impress even the most paranoid suburban South African. Now, with the G20 summit looming, the Canadian government is dropping the rest of its cash on advertising.

In South Africa, so much of life is politicised. And is dominated by the ANC. So you won’t be surprised to hear that the South African Football Federation has a national executive committee. And 52 regions. And provinces, and various other structures. And they vote in these structures. And conferences have a propensity to come close to disaster.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of social networking megasite Facebook, may not ever have intended taking a holiday in Pakistan, but if he did now would not be the time. The country’s courts are investigating him on anti-blasphemy charges – and a guilty verdict carries the ultimate penalty.

The humanitarian aid industry is big business, in fact gigantic business. To protect the billions receiving aid annually, charitable organisations fiercely control the data on the basis that “he who owns the information owns the money”. That’s now set to change with disruptive technology that’s making information more freely available and rewriting the rules for the way global crises are handled. Meet Erik Hersman and his brainchild, Ushahidi.com.

In what should be the trigger for his immediate redeployment by the ANC, if not impeachment, President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday said that at least some foreigners have the ability to play the vuvuzela better than South Africans. Among his other delusions: that foreigners won’t worry about possible World Cup strikes simply because it is strike season.

Fifa’s bungling attempts to prosecute two women involved in the Bavaria ambush marketing incident have ended up exacerbating the very situation it wanted to avoid – giving (almost) free publicity to a company that isn’t a World Cup sponsor.