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Health
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ANC Recalls 1,35 Million Faulty Condoms Given Away At Party
01 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
About 1,35 million condoms are being recalled as we speak. They were handed out at the recent ANC centenary celebrations. The reason? The have been found to break during intercourse and others are “porous”.
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Another South African Caught Smuggling Cocaine
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Barely a month after Nolubabalo Nobanda made international headlines for trying to bring cocaine into Thailand via her dreadlocks, another South African has been caught smuggling drugs. Patience Monkei-Khame was arrested over the weekend in Malawi, after four kilograms of nose candy was found hidden in a baby pram she was pushing.
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Joan Rivers Undergoes Her 734th Plastic Surgery Operation
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
“My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating.” Well-know American comedienne, Joan Rivers, has just undergone her 734th plastic surgery operation at the age of 78. This time she went for a to “tune-up” on her neck, and allowed a TV crew to film the process.
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Limpopo So Broke That Hospitals Don’t Even Have Food
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This is both embarrassing and a little worrying. It’s been a while since the province of Limpopo was declared bankrupt and placed under national administration, but now there isn’t even food in the hospitals. Which, when you’re dealing with very sick people, is probably not a good thing.
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Rooibos Researchers Given R2M To Reveal Tea’s Benefits
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Weight loss? Disease prevention? Anti-aging? Cup of tea? A very sizeable chunk of change has just been granted to researchers who are eager to show the world the plethora of health properties attached to South Africa’s favourite tea, our humble rooibos.
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Ambulance Stopped And Forced To Pay Chapman’s Peak Toll Fee
17 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Cape Medical Response recently got a call to transfer a patient to Constantiaberg as an emergency. But they were stopped at the Chapman’s Peak toll first. According to Entilini Concession – the company that operates the road – even ambulances must stop and pay the toll fee, “irrespective of whether it is an emergency.”
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Rihanna Snapped Smoking A Joint In Hawaii [PICS]
17 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Pictures of what appears to be Rihanna smoking weed in Hawaii were taken yesterday. Whilst she was puffing the magic dragon, Rihanna also tweeted the lyrics to a Drake song that deals with the world’s most beloved green herb: “Kush rolled, glass full…I prefer the better things!”
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The Internet, As Bad As Cocaine
12 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A recent study by Chinese experts has found that internet addiction affects your brain in the much the same way that cocaine, and other drugs, does.
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Aussies Top The Charts In Dope And Meth Use: Study
10 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Those Aussies just need to be the best at everything, don’t they? Except, a British medical journal recently revealed that Australia and New Zealand also top the global charts for usage of marijuana and methamphetamine! Awkward!
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Greece Classes Pedophilia, Exhibitionism, And Kleptomania As Disabilities
10 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Greek disability groups expressed anger yesterday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs. No news yet as to whether or not these people will also qualify for special parking close to schools, playgrounds, and shopping malls.
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Breaking: Cape Town Police Arrest Heavily Armed Man In Woodstock
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Cape Town police arrested an as yet un-named man today holding a virtual armoury of weapons, and a literal pharmacy of illegal narcotics in Woodstock. What was this man on a mission packing? We’ve got the whole list!
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Facebook Timeline Used For Israeli Anti-Drug Campaign
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Whether you love it or hate it, Facebook’s new Timeline feature is here to say. Rather than jump on the bandwagon condemning the new feature, an Israeli ad agency used it to send a powerful anti-drug message.
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Anti-Obesity Ads Targeting Children Draws Controversy
04 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An advertising campaign addressing anti-obesity among children has come under fire in America. Many parents feel Strong4Life and their “Stop Sugarcoating” campaign blames the victims. One advert sees a chubby, young girl who stands with her arms crossed facing the camera. The tagline reads: “WARNING: It’s hard to be a little girl if you’re not.”
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Your MP3 Player May Be Deafening You: Study
28 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Peace and quiet can come at a premium, especially if you live and work in a busy urban environment. However, a new study shows that the biggest actual threat to our hearing is one we deliberately expose ourselves to every day.
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Shell Announces Huge Oil Spill Off Nigerian Coast, Worst In A Decade
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Shell has just alerted Nigerian coastal communities that up to 40 000 barrels of crude oil was spilled on Wednesday off the coast of the Niger delta while it was being transferred to a tanker about 120 kilometres off the coast. The spill is likely to be the biggest in a decade.
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Woman Gives Birth To Baby With Two Heads
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Brazilian woman has given birth to a baby with two heads this week. The boy has two brains and two spines but shares one heart, lungs, liver and pelvis. In the spirit of Christmas, she has decided to call her son(s) Emanoel and Jesus respectively.
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Canadian Researchers May Have A Vaccine For Aids [VIDEO]
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Canadian researchers recently received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commence testing an HIV vaccine on humans.
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Full Gallery Of Nobanda Nolubabalo’s Cocaine Dreadlocks [PICS]
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 60 Comments
By now you must have heard of Nobanda Nolubabalo, the 23 year-old South African who was arrested in Bangkok on Monday. She is accused of being a drug mule and was allegedly carrying 1.5kg of cocaine, hidden in her dreadlocks. Photos of customs officers searching her hair have since appeared online. See them after the jump.
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Self-Diagnosis App Being Developed For Smartphones
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pulling a sickie for work or school might soon be a thing of the past as a pair of Korean researchers are trying to integrate advanced bio-detection software into a smartphone app.
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Brazilian Ad: Your Unborn Child Added You On Facebook
01 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Brazilian ad company took a rather labour intensive route to fill a brief for condom brand, Olla. They set up fake Facebook profiles for the hypothetical unborn children of a group of random men, and got the kiddies to add daddy on Facebook.
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Table Mountain Will Go Red For World Aids Day Tomorrow
30 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Visitors to Cape Town (let’s face it, the migration to the Mother City for the summer has definitely started) may appreciate it if you point out Table Mountain to them tomorrow evening. With 1 December marking World Aids Day, the City of Cape Town has agreed to light up the natural wonder in red between 7pm and 11pm.
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DJ Fresh: “My Suicidal Cousin Is Just Being Selfish And Is Looking For Attention”
30 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday DJ Fresh tweeted the following regarding a family member: “Attention seeking person i know says ‘i just tried to kill myself’… would it be ‘wrong’ to send them 5 ways that WILL work? #SOselfish [sic]”. He also called his cousin “a suicidal brat”. This has upset a lot of people, including the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG), yet Fresh remains defiant on the matter.
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The Vatican’s Exorcist Says Yoga Is Satanic
30 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Gabriele Amorth is the Vatican’s chief exorcist. And if he is to be believed, he’s pretty good at it with just under 70 000 banished evil spirits under his belt. He says yoga is the work of the devil and leads to a belief in Hinduism, which, in turn, leads to evil.
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Get The Diet Book That Nigella Lawson Used
30 Nov 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
There has been much hysterical excitement about chunky TV chef, Nigella Lawson’s recent weight loss. And it turns out she is not the only one using it. Fellow celebrities that swear by the diet include Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and even Hugh Grant. It’s called the “Clean and Lean” 14-day diet and is said to avoid over-exercising […]
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The Contagion-esque Superflu That Could Kill Us All
29 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sealed up in the lower levels of a medical faculty building in Rotterdam, the Netherlands lies a genetically altered flu strain which could potentially cause a pandemic which could kill half of the world’s population.
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Recession Threatens Funding For Fighting HIV/AIDS
29 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As World AIDS Day approaches, health advocacy groups and charities across the developing world are tightening their belts following an announcement by the The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria that the expected 11th round of funding due in 2012 would be cancelled due to “resource constraints”.
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Children’s Book About Marijuana Reissued In Time For Christmas
28 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s Just a Plant is an illustrated picture book about marijuana for the younger members of society. The plot is fairly simple: Jackie catches her folks smoking a joint one evening, and then her mother takes her on a trip the next day to learn more about marijuana.
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Drug Dealer Throws Cocaine Worth R1,5 Million Out Of Car
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Footage showing a Liverpool drug dealer throwing R1,5 million worth of cocaine from a moving car has been released by police. The guy tossed 2kg of the drug from the window of a Mercedes while being followed by police filming the chase.
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You’re Having A Baby… No, Two… Sorry, Three
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A British mother has given birth to triplets, having expected just one baby after doctors looked at her first ultrasound, with two babies showing themselves at her second scan. Only at the time of her third ultrasound did Chamille Thompson hear she should be preparing for triplets.
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Even Superman Wants A Piece Of Julius
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I think it’s safe to say that hatin’ on Julius has now officially saved more conversations than the weather. Having said that, after a good rant most of us move on. Most of us. One Eastern Cape man, however, decided to put on a cape, jump on some cars and claim that he is a superman from the clouds, sent to kill Malema.
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