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Health
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Patrick Holford Kids Supplement Found Guilty Of Misleading Advertising
17 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So it turns out that one of the Patrick Holford supplement range products – called Smart Kids Brain Boost – does not actually enhance mental performance. This was revealed in a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority. The company will now have to change the name of the product, as well as remove the term “intelligent fats” from the packaging.
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Global Marijuana March Takes Place In Cape Town Over Weekend [PICS & VIDEO]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Global Marijuana March is a yearly event embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Around 700 different cities worldwide, including Cape Town, have signed up since 1999. This highly anticipated celebration took place over the weekend. How did Capetonian dagga supporters celebrate? Find out inside.
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Jimmy Kimmel Confronts Obama About Marijuana Legalisation [VIDEO]
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel spoke at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner yesterday. Amongst the issues he got off his chest was the legalisation of marijuana. See him tell Barack Obama that “pot smokers vote too” after the jump.
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Russell Brand Talks To British MPs About Drug Abuse [VIDEO]
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday comedian Russell Brand gave evidence to British MP’s about his battle with addiction during a renewal of the government’s current drugs policy. True to his style, Brand sported a sleeveless t-shirt that showed off his heavily tattooed arm, copious jewellery, cowboy boots and hat, and a long trenchcoat. His colourful speech included a description of how emotional and psychological difficulties led to him becoming addicted to drugs.
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Booze Ad Ban Raises Spectre Of Job Losses
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Further concerns over the potentially large number of jobs that could be lost as a result of government’s proposed booze advertising ban, have been aired. Government is still mulling over its draft bill – which has been labelled draconian – but either way, the health department is determined to clamp down on the industry.
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Despite Two Fracking Earthquakes, UK Expected To Adopt New Widespread Fracking
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Advice from the first official British government report into fracking has been published today. In it, British ministers have been informed that they should allow the controversial process of fracking for shale gas to be extended there, this despite the process having been blamed for causing two earthquakes.
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King Of Spain Breaks Hip Hunting Elephant On Trip To Botswana
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
King Juan Carlos of Spain is no stranger to controversial hunting. Six years ago, it was asserted that the 74-year-old shot a drunken Russian bear that had been lured with honey and vodka. Officials dismissed the allegations as ridiculous. The Spanish media have just had another field day though, after they learned he’d broken his hip hunting in Botswana recently.
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The Killer Commute – The Effects Of Your Daily Commute On Your Body And Mind
13 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Let’s be honest, no one enjoys commuting. It’s a frustrating, time-consuming, anger-inducing practice which has become an unfortunate fact of life for some. Even more concerning however, are the actual negative effects it has on your physical and mental health. Click through for an insightful infographic breakdown.
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Mugabe Deathbed Rumour: “A Lot Of Hogwash”
10 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Zimbabwean Information Minister, Webster Shamu, has told the AFP that reports that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was battling for his life in a Singapore hospital are “a lot of hogwash”. It must really irritate Bob when people make stuff up about him.
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Third Racial Complaint At Virgin Active – Gym Suspends Man For Spitting At Patron
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Complaints of inter-patron racism have rocked Virgin Active recently. A third racial complaint has now been lodged, this time at Virgin’s Hatfield gym, resulting in a man being suspended for spitting at another member. Charming.
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Madonna Responds To Deadmau5 [PIC]
27 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This morning we told you about Deadmau5 taking on Madonna via Twitter. He mistook her asking the crowd at a recent concert if “they’ve seen Molly?” for disguised drug use promotion. It turns out she was actually referring to one of her new singles, “Have you seen Molly”, and took to Twitter to correct the electro artist. She even used a pic! Awkward.
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Helen Zille And The Eastern Cape “Health Refugee”
27 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Less than a week after Helen Zille’s latest Twitter-storm about comments she made about the state of education here in the Western Cape versus the same in our neighbours – she called students from the Eastern Cape who attend school here “refugees” – she has gotten all up in the ANC’s grille once more with fresh comments regarding the state of health here versus there.
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Brazil Offers Free Beauty Treatments To The Poor
23 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s not uncommon for under-privileged people to be given access to basic rights like healthcare, housing and clean water. Brazil has taken this to a whole new level – trying to show that the right to beauty is just as important. If you’re not beautiful, and can’t afford to be beautiful, then don’t worry – just go to the free clinic!
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Breakthrough: SA Scientists Generate Stem Cells From Adults
22 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
For the first time ever, South African scientists have generated non-embryonic stem cells, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced. Harvested from adult skin cells, theoretically, these stem cells can grow into any type of adult cell.
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Johannesburg Chooses Owls To Fight Rat Plague In Alexandra Township
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Before you begin to make fun of the headline used for this article, we must tell you that the vermin extractors will also be serving an educational purpose. Johannesburg’s general owl population has been in decline for years as a result of urbanisation, but new owl projects are helping to combat this.
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Your 2012 Cape Argus Road Closures
09 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s that time of the year again when thousands of lycra-clad cyclists descend on the Mother City for the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour. Capetonians, your road closures begin tomorrow, so here is what you need to be aware of.
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SA Man Is Longest-Serving Foreigner In ‘Bangkok Hilton’: Shani Krebs Finally On His Way Home
08 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 16 Comments
Shani Krebs has been living in a (reportedly revolting) maximum security Thai prison called Bang Kwang Central – lovingly referred to by inmates as the ‘Bangkok Hilton’ – since before South Africa became a democracy. Krebs is the longest-serving farang or foreigner in the institution, for which he’s earned a rather tragic reputation. He’s at last been released and will soon return to the ‘new’ SA.
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Invisible Children: Make Joseph Kony Famous [VIDEO]
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This might turn out to be the most inspiring documentary you will watch all year. A serious campaign is underway to bring down Joseph Kony, the infamous leader of the Ugandan guerrilla group: the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA is responsible for an unquantifiable number of atrocities across Uganda. Human trafficking, brutal rape, and child soldier deployment are commonplace. This is KONY 2102.
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SA Woman Paralysed By “Bad Cocaine” To Return Home
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kathryne Fuller, 29, will be returning home to South Africa. She was charged with possession of cocaine in Uganda after she took the contaminated substance with Amazing Race producer, Jeff Rice, last month. Rice died, and Fuller was left paralysed on the right side of her body. She pleaded guilty to the charge, and paid a $420 fine to avoid imprisonment.
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What Does This Traffic Light Signal Mean?
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Capetonians: on Janssens Road, in Tableview, near the bike shop, this traffic light is sporting a new “green” signal. Apparently, this isn’t the first traffic light that’s been sporting this kind of “green” signal either.
[Thanks, Jake R]
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“Bad” Cocaine Killed Amazing Race Producer
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Following further investigation it has come to light that Jeff Rice, the American TV producer found dead in his hotel room in Uganda, died after ingesting contaminated cocaine and not as a result of being poisoned as was initially thought.
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Schizophrenic Ex-Bulls Player To Stand Trial For Axe Murders, Assault And Rape
24 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ex-Blue Bulls flanker, Phindile Ntshongwana, has been deemed medically fit to stand trial for the alleged murder of three people (two with an axe), attempted murder of another and the kidnapping and rape of a woman. Happy Friday everyone!
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Everyone At The Maitland Police Station May Well Be Dying – Spare A Thought
15 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In the Maitland police station in Cape Town 85 staff took a total of 6 579 sick days in one year, at an average of 77,2 days each. Click through for a list of South Africa’s most chronically afflicted police stations.
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A Valentine’s Miracle: Stem Cells Could Heal Broken Hearts
14 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As Al Green so eloquently put it all those years ago, “how can you mend a broken heart?” A recent study has found that stem cells may in fact be used to heal scars and other damage after a heart attack.
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Fake Louis Vuitton Condoms Go Viral On Twitter
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Twittosphere went a little gaga earlier this week over pictures of a supposed line of Louis Vuitton condoms that the luxury French fashion house was planning to unleash on their highbrow clientele.
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As The World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens, Check Out This Eco Radvertising Featuring The Cape Town Towers Demolition
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 102 turbine Walney Offshore wind farm located approximately 15 kilometres off Walney Island, Cumbria, in the Irish Sea in the UK, is about to start harvesting the wind. It will provide electricity for 320 000 homes and the project has cost £1 billion.
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Chinese Woman Gives Birth To 7 Kilo Baby
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
One Chinese family in Xinxiang City, Henan Province has gotten the Year of the Dragon off to a stellar start, producing the heaviest newborn ever recorded in China, weighing in at a whopping 15,52lb, or just over 7kg!
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Pretoria Man Too Large For Burial
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just in time to save our flagging New Years resolutions to get in shape, here is some February oomph courtesy of an unfortunate Pretoria man who was so obese at time of death, that it might not be possible to bury him.
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Worldwide Malaria Deaths Grossly Underestimated
03 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
New research funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggests 1,24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010: nearly twice the number previously estimated for that period. Oh, and six cases of infection were diagnosed in Pretoria recently too.
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Aussie Rugby Star Reveals Battle With Depression
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Wallaby legend Clyde Rathbone has broken his silence about his years long battle with the depression that cost him his marriage, and almost his life. We’ve got his full awe-inspiring statement, detailing how he fought back, after the jump.
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