We're happy to announce the introduction of the Zag TV Channel on Cracker where you can find the best surfing videos and footage in South Africa.

Check out the huge waves, the challenges and interviews with some of SA's greats.  You can view the channel here:  Zag TV

7 South African players took their seats on Friday 3rd July at the WSOP $10,000 Main Event. Lino Pestano; Kyri Patsalos; Nic Sissou; Raymond Rahme; Jaco Storm; Ryan Dreyer and Ryan Price were the first of the African contingent to experience the new 30,000 chip starting stack, with blinds starting at 100/200.

The total number of players has not yet been announced but it seems to be quieter than previous years and the consensus in the media room is that this year will have see less players.

Follow the daily updates on the Texas Holdem Channel. Exciting stuff!

The All Africa Poker Tournament is a very exciting tournament in any avid poker players' calendar. Great hands, high stakes and huge pots are evident in all the footage taken of the event.

New, exciting poker videos have just been uploaded to the Texas Holdem Channel on Cracker so go ahead and enjoy!

We've all been amused of late by Vodacom's Player 23 advert featuring Jan who is in fact, Malcom Ferreira, a comedian, actor and impersonator.  He has now become so popular that people are recognising him everywhere as the now famous rugby supporter!

Vodacom's agency explain the reason for the Player 23 concept is to bring the fans closer to the game. They figured the closest a fan can be to rugby is to be a part of the team so they made him player 23. Jan isn't the only player 23 - he is the face behind all passionate, die-hard rugby supporters.

Our dear Jan eats, sleeps and dreams rugby and we can tell by the way he is portrayed in Vodacom's adverts.  For a glimpse into Player 23's world, see the video below.  Another "Cracker" video to enjoy!

Nando's burst onto the scenes in South Africa with contravercial, heavily debated advertisements which ultimately placed them on the map and contributed to their great success. 

They speak in the "slang" of the country they're advertising in and make sure that they don't become part of the clutter. After all, their successful advertising has shown that satirical communication is best served locally and best consumed with an open mind!

Cracker's "Great Ads" channel features many of their award winning adverts, one of which you can view below. For the other hilarious ads, search "Nandos" in the search box.  ENJOY - have a laugh!

Some great new adverts have been uploaded to the "GREAT ADS" channel. I highly recommend you watch them as some of them are seriously funny, others have won awards at Cannes in 2008 and some are just really interesting.

Great entertainment value from Cracker!

Here's one to get you started...

For those of you who are avid aviation fans, there are plenty of different aviation related videos under the aviation channel. From helicopters, the new A380 to fighter jets and plane crashes!  Exciting stuff.

Below is an interesting video on what happens when you try pulling 7 G's. I won't be trying that out!

UNCONFIRMED EXPLANATION: The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600 sat in its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime. Enter the flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups, prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi. The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.

Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 really is. The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because they had all 4 engines at full power. The aircraft computers thought they were trying to take off but the aircraft had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.) Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm.This fooled the aircraft into thinking it was in the air. The computers automatically released all the brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward. The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man crew was bright enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it.

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.

Last year's Cannes Film Festival featured some great advertisements which Cracker has now uploaded.  View them all on the Great Ads channel and enjoy!

Hahn Beer have incredibly funny adverts, some of which are featured on Cracker under the Great Ads Channel.  I highly recommend you watch these for a great laugh! 

See an example of their ads below.  ENJOY!

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The prestigious 4-star, Big 5 Aquila Private Game Reserve, just outside Cape Town, was nominated as a finalist in the Luxury Game Lodge category at the World Luxury Hotel Awards at a prestigious black tie gala event towards the end of last year in Cape Town.

States owner and founder of Aquila Private Game Reserve, Searl Derman: “It’s a great honour to know that we’ve been recognised by the industry not only for our exceptional facilities and service excellence and unique Big 5 educational experience but also acknowledged for our various conservation and community upliftment initiatives.”

Derman recently hit the international media spotlight when he learnt of the conservation wildlife emergency on Robben Island and called in his specialist staff from the Animal Rehabilitation Centre (ARC), a non-profit organisation based at Aquila Private Game Reserve, dedicated to the conservation of endangered species and involved in various research projects, funded by Aquila.

Within hours Derman had arranged with the islands management to ferry over vital food that he purchased at his own expense such as game licks, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and highly concentrated vitamin and molasses concentrates for the starving fallow deer.

The 300 or so fallow deer on Robben Island are now in a much healthier condition after receiving the weekly supplementary feeding to the value of over R300 000 donated by Derman throughout the winter and the second phase of the rehabilitation process is due to commence.