Mr. Ben Garvin has used his magnificent facial hair to create this amazing stop-motion video. It didn’t happen over night though. Watch in amazement as it shifts, morphs and even eats its vegetables.

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Chantal Rutter Dros, famous for her work on eNews and Carte Blanche, will be the face of the primetime news on ANN7, the new 24-hour news channel on DStv. ANN7 is backed by the powerful and politically connected Gupta family, and has Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, as an investor.

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North Korea is experiencing something of a meth “epidemic” at the moment. Kim Seok-hyang, the man who wrote a report titled, ‘A New Face of North Korean Drug Use: Upsurge in Methamphetamine Abuse Across the Northern Areas of North Korea’, said: “Almost every adult in that area (of North Korea) has experienced using [crystal meth] and not just once.”

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Eighty-three residents of Uitvalgrond, outside Brits in the North West have lost the mining rights to their own land. They are putting the blame on the owner of the Chelsea football team, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich… and Jacob Zuma.

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Cell C for yourself, the power is in your hands! Or not. Cell C’s promises don’t seem to be worth the paper they’re written on. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s most recent assessment of service quality has found that Cell C has the worst rate of dropped calls of all cellphone operators in Johannesburg.

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Jacobus Petrus “Koos” Bekker, the man responsible for taking over De Nasionale Pers (the publishing company that brought us Die Burger, now known as Naspers Ltd.) in 1997 hit a landmark this year – he has become a billionaire. Kate Turner-Smith, BPI Africa Capital analyst said that when Bekker took control of the group he immediately began […]

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The inimitable Barry Bateman and Mandy Wiener form EWN have revealed this morning that the state will be pursuing a life sentence as the mandatory minimum punishment in their case against murder accused Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp in his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day this year. The state will […]

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2oceansvibe recently got its hands on a pre-shipment of onesies for the 2oceansvibe Shop – yes, that’s a thing – and I can tell you, naysayers have been converted. None of us really “got” the hype behind onesie and onesie-style garments prior to this session of product testing. To say that our eyes have been opened would be a gross, gross understatement, friends.

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The Supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army is reaching out to defectors, and letting them know they always have a home in North Korea. Kim has promised that returning defectors will not be harmed – on the contrary, talk of cash rewards is being thrown about.

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Some people love Euro cars. It’s not so much about the brand, as the place. You might be one of those people. You might occasionally catch yourself fantasising that you’re careening around the curves of a French gorge on your way home. You might also fantasise about saving R136,000 on your next car.

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Gisele Bündchen is currently enjoying pole position on the anual earning’s list for models for the seventh year in a row. Bündchen earned $42 million this year, seven times as much as second-place Miranda Kerr. That’s a hefty sum, but it’s also $3 million less than last year for the Brazilian, which is exactly the same figure by which Kerr’s earnings improved from last year.

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Spam botnets, such as the infamous ‘Zeus’ that came to light in 2007, have infiltrated Instagram, and are being put to task generating false ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ in order to create media buzz over particular companies or individuals on the platform for eventual financial gain.

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Are you looking for a new work environment to stimulate your senses? Maybe you should work for one of these companies, they have awesome offices. Apparently slides are a pre-requisite in most of these places.

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What’s the most you’ve ever spent on an app? We’ve all dabbled in the purchase of $0,99 apps, sometimes even venturing to buy a newly released, $9,99 app on special occasions. Want to know what the 16 most expensive apps are? They will put your $9,99 purchase to shame.

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Behold the royal mug shot of Romanian Pricess, Princess Irina. She has been arrested for masterminding a large cockfighting ring in Eastern Oregon, because what else is there to do in Oregon?

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China wants their nationals to be more polite when travelling abroad. They are so concerned about their reputation that the Xinhua News Agency ran reports five days in a row, airing videos designed to coach Chinese tourists on how to be more polite abroad. The government is so serious about this that on 1 October a […]

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Lindsay Lohan sat down with Oprah in a highly anticipated interview where she told about her time in rehab, public court battles, family feuds and her “addiction to chaos”. Oprah wasn’t pulling any punches.

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Remember when we told you about the Ubuntu Edge, the super-smart phone Mark Shuttleworth plans to release that will be more powerful than a desktop computer? No? Well here it is. Anyway, Mark may have set the record for the largest crowdfunding project ever!

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The City Press has reported that the state intends to argue that Reeva Steenkamp was cowering behind the toilet when Oscar Pistorius shot and killed her on Valentine’s Day this year.

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With a growing number of people calling for the boycott of next year’s Sochi Olympics because of the much criticized anti-gay law which bans anything that could be seen as promoting homosexuality, the victorious Russian relay team marked their win at the 4 x 400m relay at the World Athletics Championship in Moscow with multiple kisses on the winner’s podium.

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This excellent infographic collates the career data of Fortune 100 CEOs. Amazingly, only 65% of the CEOs have post graduate university degrees. If your career path doesn’t look anything like the data on this infographic, don’t despair too much. Most of these people charted their own paths – you may well be doing the very same thing.

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Dread Pirate Roberts, creator and owner of the Silk Road online drug-buying portal has completed an anonymous interview with Forbes about his growing enterprise. The Silk Road is a website where one can acquire heroin, methamphetamine, crack, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and an insane number of marijuana varieties. Payment is possible via BitCoin.

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Do you often worry about your boss catching you being unproductive at work? We know you update your Twitter feed, stalk your exes on Facebook, and re-watch your favourite cat videos, all while you should be working. This app will help you and your slacking co-workers trick your unsuspecting boss in to thinking you are the employee of the month.

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Surprise, surprise, the Beijing zoo that brought us the Tibetan Mastiff disguised as an African lion has closed its doors. Unsuspecting zoo goers, realized that the “African lion” was really a dog when it started barking. Since this incident has made world-wide news more impostors at the zoo have been revealed!

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Some rich guy (or girl) just purchased a super rare 1967 Ferrari for $27,5 million (R279,034,843.84) and set a world record! The Ferrari 275 GTB/4*S N.A.R.T. Spider was sold on Saturday night in Monterey, California, and makes it the most expensive road car ever sold at an auction.

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Photos of Oscar Pistorius arriving and standing in court have filtered onto the internet. These include pics of him walking in, standing with his family – possibly praying, as well as pics of him crying. There’s also one of a very amped protester.

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With the press event due to kick off on 10 September, specification speculation for the iPhone 5S is going mental. But the long-awaited finger print technology is looking more and more like a certainty with every new report.

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Cha Ching! The distant family of Huguette Clark, are in talks to secure a portion of her R3 billion fortune. Huguette was the youngest daughter of former US Senator William Andrews Clark. He was one of the copper kings of Montana, a railroad builder and – get this – the founder of Las Vegas! You can imagine how much money this man had…

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We’ve been banging on about the need to introduce quality headphones into your life for some time now, and we’re not giving up on you yet. What we have here is a said pair of quality headphones, at a price that you will not be able to beat, anywhere. Get on this.

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A British grandmother is wasting away on death row in Bali for smuggling cocaine. Housed at Kerobokan jail, which is nicknamed ‘Hotel K’, 57-year-old Lindsay Sandiford is awaiting her death. Lindsay was sentenced in January of this year for smuggling £1,5 million (R23,702,674) worth of cocaine into Bali.

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