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Culture
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Radical Story About A Man’s Life Of Poverty Instead Of Wealth, After Being Switched At Birth
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
60 years ago, two children were born in the same hospital. One of them had rich parents – the other had poor parents. In a cruel twist of fate, the children were swapped by the hospital staff.
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They’re Still Doing Debutante Balls And The Latest One Features A Kennedy
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The debutantes ball – where the next young crop women are freshened up, and presented to ‘polite society’.
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Prostitution Finds Tech: Local Website Lets SA Escorts List Their Services, With Full Photo Galleries
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
Prostitution may well be one of the very oldest professions, but it certainly isn’t one of the most technologically sophisticated. Although, a new local website might change that.
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The Ultimate Selfie App ‘Frontback’ Is Exploding
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems like those who have opposed the ‘selfie’ in all its forms will have to put their prejudices aside. It’s a thing now. A big thing.
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The Lottery Winners Curse: Another Marriage Crumbles..
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It was just last week that we posted a story about how a lotto-winning couple’s relationship was destroyed – and now yet another couple is finding it hard to be happy after winning the lotto.
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Hidden Camera Busts Pickpocket Training School [VIDEO]
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Donka Panova is a 77 year-old woman who is revered in her community for her “special talent”. Otherwise known as ‘Golden Hands’, Panova is one of the most well respected pick-pockets in Bulgaria.
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Beer-Tapping Physics: Why A Hit To A Bottle Makes A Foam Volcano
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The beer-tapping phenomenon was a long-standing puzzle in beer science (isn’t that something you wish you’d studied…) until physicist Javier Rodriguez of Madrid University and his team decided to undertake the challenge of figuring it out. We get it Spain. Your problems are cooler than ours.
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Please Enjoy This Couple’s ‘Hunger Games’ Themed Wedding [GALLERY]
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This gallery of photos makes important steps towards providing a pictorial definition of the word “obsessive”.
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Cape Town Takes Top Prize In Telegraph Travel Awards
29 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Telegraph Travel awards asked 75,000 people to vote for their favourite travel companies and destinations, so this is no phony award. In fact, the Telegraph’s survey is one of most comprehensive and wide-ranging travel surveys out there.
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Wow – People Are Getting Thrown Out Of Restaurants For Wearing Google Glass
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
While the sight of someone wearing Google Glass is still strange enough to get you noticed, American Nick Starr didn’t realise it would get him kicked out of a restaurant.
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If There’s One TV Series You Should Watch This Year, It’s This One [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
21 years ago ITV’s award-winning TV series ‘7UP’ South Africa documented a cross-section of the country’s seven-year-old children and asked them about their lives, hopes and dreams.
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Please Enjoy This Guy – He Says He Was Raised By Wolves
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Marcos Rodriguez Pantoia claims that not only was he raised by wolves but that he had a guardian pet snake.
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Mysterious Online Organisation Has Geeks Transfixed
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
For the past two years, a secretive online organisation has piqued the interest of the world’s finest code-breakers in a series of seemingly unsolvable puzzles. But why? And who is behind the puzzle? Welcome, friends, to the dark and twisted world of Cicada 3301.
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95,000 Sign Petition To Change Script And Save TV Cartoon Character
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
‘Family Guy’ fans are up in arms after a recent episode saw one of their star characters, Brian, run over and killed-off the show by a car.
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Lonely? Here’s A Company That Will Create A Fake Girlfriend For You
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a dark corner of the internet we found a website that will shine a light into the lives of single men who think real women are a drag. Or, you know, hard to talk to. The ‘Invisible Girlfriend’ website will help you project the illusion of having a girlfriend. The process is as simple as selecting your fake mate from a library, and personalising her according to your specific needs and circumstances.
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Hallelujah – Voice Calls Are Dying In South Africa
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Don’t you just hate it when people use their cellphones to make calls? You’re not alone. A new study by Mobility 24 shows that voice calls are in decline, especially amongst the youngsters.
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Making Bank: This 87-Year-Old Woman Is The Oldest Newcomer To The Forbes List
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ginette Heibron Moulin is 87 years old, and she just made bank in a very, very big way – making her the oldest newcomer to the Forbes list in history.
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Watch What Happened When Someone Used Famous Artworks To Apply For Art School [VIDEO]
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Like so many artists before him, Kazimir Malevich has borne the brunt of rejection many times over. Before his success, he attempted to get into art school, but was twice rejected – which prompted him to try out this controversial stunt.
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Prince William Sings ‘Living On A Prayer’ With Jon Bon Jovi And Taylor Swift [VIDEO]
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Prince William, Bon Jovi and Taylor Swift were all attending the Winter Whites Gala at Kensington Palace last night, when the desire to sing suddenly struck them all at once.
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50,000 To 200,000 People Will Be Protesting In Cape Town On Friday
27 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The group of protesters who stormed through the Cape Town CBD last month have vowed to give it another go, despite being denied permission by the authorities.
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Old vs. New Aerial Photos Of Nkandla Show Radical Scope Of Development #mindblowing
25 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
In what is yet another flagrant disregard of the government’s supposed ban on publishing pictures of JZ’s Nkandla residence, Eye Witness News has unearthed photos that reveal just how much work has gone into our president’s compound.
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It Seems SA’s Addiction To Porn Is Getting Out Of Hand
25 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It seems as if we South African’s have a bit of a porn problem. Reports claim that ‘porn addiction’ is on the rise in our fair land, with kids as young as 15 being checked into therapy, and millions of rands being spent on porn subscriptions each month.
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WATCH: The Dalai Lama Discuss Farting [VIDEO]
22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Due to the fact that he was disallowed entry into our country, we can’t be sure that he’s the Buddhist master everyone makes him out to be. But if YouTube videos are anything to go by, the man knows his stuff.
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Check Out This Rolling Stone Interview With Charles Manson And His 25-Year-Old Girlfriend
22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s been well over 50 years since Charles Manson and the Manson family were at the height of their infamy,and well over 40 years since Manson’s death penalty was commuted into a life sentence. He’s 79 years old now, an he recently held an interview with Rolling Stone.
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They Tested R Kelly To See If He Can Sing Sexy About Anything – He Can [AUDIO]
22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After all that controversy and all those kiddy-sex accusations, R. Kelly has returned from his three-year hiatus to release his 12th solo album, ‘Black Panties’. That’s when he claimed, “With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.”
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How The US Army And Hollywood Propelled Vespa To What It Is Today
22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In its early days, the Vespa was a cheap and efficient way of zipping around bombed-out Rome. Now, it stands atop a multi-billion dollar scooter industry, chosen by the world’s elite because of it’s style and sex appeal. But how did all that happen?
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This Is What Happens When White Trash Wins The Lottery
22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Adrian and Gillian Bayford had lived a relatively pain-free life in the English countryside town of Suffolk, until the day they won just over two billion rand. Now their lives are a mess.
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They Reckon Weed-Smoking Parents Are Better Parents
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all had those moments in school when you went over to your mates place, only to find a crop of marijuana sitting neatly in the back garden. We then might have dismissed those parents as irresponsible, but one man is making the argument for combining parenting and marijuana.
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Don’t Read This If You Dig Fast Food
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Most of us love fast food. But periodically, we need to remind ourselves of just how nasty fast food is, before we can make an informed decision about whether or not to carry on eating it. Here is a reminder.
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No Lies: That Girl Who Sold Her Virginity Is Trying To Sell Her Virginity – Again
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So, we’ve posted at least two different stories about two different girls who were both selling their virginity. The first was Shatuniha, who sold her untouched downstairs apartment for R285,000. The second was Catarina, who had apparently sold herself to a 53 year-old Japanese millionaire for a casual R7,7 million.
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