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Twitter can’t get enough of Beyonce’s Lion King-inspired ‘Spirit’ music video

Beyonce is trending on Twitter yet again in the wake of something Lion King related. This time, the music video for her new song…

Apple is planning to produce its own podcasts, report reveals

Apple is planning to fund its very own podcasts to compete with other leading audio streaming brands, a report by Bloomberg revealed on Tuesday….

Johnny Clegg has died: South Africa mourns the man with the ‘Great Heart’

Johnny Clegg, one of South Africa’s most influential musicians of the late 1980s, has died. The news broke on Tuesday, however Clegg has been…

South Africans can’t find jobs, turn to memes on Twitter instead

Introducing the bleakest trending hashtag we’ve seen in South Africa for a good while. #ToGetAJobInSA began trending across the country’s Twitter timelines on Monday…

Netflix removes that graphic suicide scene in 13 Reasons Why

Netflix on Tuesday announced that it has removed the suicide scene in the first season of 13 Reasons Why, which depicts main character Hannah…

Google Lens lets fans scan ‘Starcourt Mall’ ads from Stranger Things 3

Believe it or not, but the Stranger Things 3 craze has not yet ended even though it premiered on Netflix just over a week…

HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s new streaming service, to launch in 2020

WarnerMedia on Tuesday announced the upcoming release of its very own direct-to-consumer streaming service, HBO Max. “Anchored with and inspired by the legacy of…

The Shape of Water bested by Get Out, Dunkirk on Google Search

The internet and the big arts academies of the world don’t always agree. We’ve seen this with the Grammys this year, and now the…

These are your 2018 Oscar winners in 15 tweet-sized snippets

If you stayed up all night to catch the 90th edition of the Oscars, congratulations, you deserve that coffee. If not (like me), then…

Review: Game Night ain’t trite

You got the timer? Ready? And… go. Okay, so this is a comedy about a murder mystery game night that turns into a real…

Meet Triggerfish: Cape Town’s Oscar-nominated animation studio

Thirty-five minutes outside Cape Town’s CBD lies an unobtrusive farmhouse nestled beneath the Constantiaberg. A decade ago, it housed old-fashioned horse-drawn carriages and 19th…

Why is South Africa not watching South African movies?

You hear it all the time (at least in the hipster parts of Cape Town): support local. Wear locally-made clothes, buy fruit and veg…

SA’s box office: this week was boring so I made stuff up

The box office this week was really boring. Barely anything changed. The top four is exactly the same as last week, and the bottom…

Last week in trailers: Saoirse Ronan, John Cena, Tommy Wiseau & more

It’s this writer’s last trailer roundup here on Memeburn, so of course that means the marketing world dried up and delivered a host of just…

3 online games that teach you to identify fake news

Nobody is safe from the pull of “fake news”. Even those who should be most informed (looking at you, Western Cape Premier Helen Zille) have…

Three Billboards appropriates black and female struggles for the white man

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri tells a universal tale of women abandoned by the justice system sworn to protect them. In South Africa, this…

Budget Speech 2018: Yes, Malusi Gigaba just quoted Kendrick Lamar

After President Cyril Ramaphosa quoted Hugh Masekela during his SONA 2018 finale, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba likely thought he’d do something similar to rouse…

Watch Malusi Gigaba deliver the 2018 Budget Speech live on YouTube

Settle down, tune into Parliament’s livestream, and clutch your bank balances tightly as Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba delivers his maiden budget speech. The budget…

8 feel-good shows on Netflix to help escape the world’s suck

Life is hard. Problems barrel at us at a steady pace, and social media has allowed us all direct access to almost every human…

Indulge in 5 of the best SONA 2018 memes

This past Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa demonstrated that the State of the Nation Address (SONA) can go on without Jacob Zuma. And South Africa’s…

Last week in trailers: Incredibles 2, Descendants 3, and more

It’s still February. I don’t know how. I thought this was meant to be the shortest month and yet here we are, still in…

SA’s box office: Black Panther has best Saturday performance of all time

Marvel’s Black Panther is the studio’s biggest opening ever in South Africa, pulling in R16.8-million in its first weekend at the theatres. The film was warmly embraced…

Fergie gets the internet talking after spicy US anthem performance

Singing the US national anthem at a sporting event is a great honour. At this weekend’s NBA All Star game, said honour was bestowed…

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