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BurnCast • 15 Jan 2016

Weekly Round Up #47: Rickman, Bowie, Tesla factory, The Star’s awks moment, regulating OTTs

By Myolisi Sikupela: Staff Reporter

Read nextPetition launched to save WhatsApp from OTT regulations

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days.

This week on BurnCast, Senior Reporter Stuart Thomas talks to Gearburn Editor Andy Walker and Reporter Jacques Coetzee about the deaths of actor Alan Rickman, star of Die Hard, Harry Potter and Love Actually, and David Bowie, singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, painter, actor and also part time soothsayer.

The team also talks about The Star newspaper falling hard for Twitter fiction and forgetting basic Journalism rules, government and service providers’ plan to regulate OTT’s like Whatsapp and Tesla’s gigafactory that only existed in the minds of hopeful South Africans.