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A Frail Ratko Mladic Appears In Court [VIDEO]
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This raw video shows the court appearance of a distinctly frail Ratko Mladic, following his arrest yesterday in Serbia. Doctors are discussing whether the Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive is fit for extradition. He sure isn’t a picture of health in this footage.
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Traffic Services Chief Inspector Warns Of Week-Long Roadblock In Cape Town
25 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
Cape Town traffic fine dodgers are in for a surprise, and not one of the good variety either. You may have heard about, or even gone through the rather large roadblock that spanned the Buitengracht exit from town before the N1 and N2 split on Sunday. Operation Reclaim intensifies: officers are planning a crackdown in the next few weeks.
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Zimbabwean To Go On Trial Over Tsvangirai Facebook Wall Post
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Zimbabwe’s privately owned NewsDay newspaper has said that a magistrate in Bulawayo has set a trial date for Vikas Mavhudzi, who faces a charge of posting offensive messages on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Facebook wall, for June 10. Mavhudzi became the first person to be arrested in Zimbabwe for a Facebook post. Screenshot after the jump.
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Sir Alex Ferguson Expected To Go On Defensive In Wake Of Giggs Twitter Furore
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With only four days left until the final climax of Manchester United’s football season and their Champions League final clash against Barcelona at Wembley this Saturday, Fergie is expected to address the matter later today. The issue poses a huge test of Giggs’s experience and Ferguson’s ability to galvanise his squad for Saturday.
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Burn Down The Herald: ANC Leader
23 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
ANC Nelson Mandela Bay chairperson Nceba Faku encouraged more than 100 party members to burn down Port Elizabeth’s The Herald newspaper as he celebrated the party’s election victory outside the Port Elizabeth City Hall on Thursday night. Faku said the party was celebrating an “important battle that is between the ANC and the media”.
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Major Security Flaw Found In Android Phones
19 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has been hit with a string of security flaws lately and the internet giant has now been exposed yet again with a “significant security hole” being found in its smartphone operating system, Google Android. As usual with these things, it can allow attackers to gain access to users’ personal information without their permission.
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South African To Co-Head Goldman Sachs Investment Banking
17 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Goldman Sachs employees were told yesterday that Richard Gnodde is the new co-head of investment banking along with David Solomon and John Weinberg. Gnodde, who was born in Johannesburg, joined the firm back in 1987 and is said to have been critical to Goldman’s European acquisitions and mergers business.
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“Shoot The Boer” Is Incitement To Murder – Halgryn Hands Down Final Judgement
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In what is surely a ground-breaking ruling around the subject of freedom of speech in South Africa, the words “dubula ibhunu” (shoot the boer) were declared an incitement to murder in a judgement handed down in the High Court in Johannesburg today by Judge Leon Halgryn.
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Kenyan Olympic Marathon Champion Dies At 24
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Kenyan Olympic marathon champion, Samuel Wanjiru, was killed when he jumped off the balcony of his home late on Sunday, police have said this morning. Wanjiru appeared to have suffered internal injuries after the fall and was confirmed dead by doctors at a nearby hospital.
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Cannes: Diana Film Slams Royals As “Gangsters”
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
At a press conference post screening, Keith Allen has insisted his documentary about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, which screened today at the Cannes Film Festival to a select audience of invited journalists and other guests, was not “a sensationalist film”.
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First Class Passenger Attempts To Smuggle Leopard Cubs, Panthers, A Bear And Monkeys
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 36 year old United Arab Emirates citizen, who was waiting to check in for his first class flight at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, has been detained by undercover anti-trafficking officers for attempting to smuggle a bizarre mix of rare creatures. The animals had been drugged and were headed for Dubai.
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Largest Ever Insider Trading Case Involving Hedge Funds Reaches Guilty Verdict
12 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Billionaire co-founder of Galleon Group, Raj Rajaratnam, has been convicted in what prosecutors called the largest insider trading case ever involving hedge funds. He remains free on $100 million bail and was placed under house arrest at his Manhattan home to await sentencing on July 29.
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Presbyterian Church Votes To Allow Openly Gay And Lesbian Clergy
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The US Presbyterian Church passed an historic ruling on Tuesday evening. They have decided to allow openly gay men and women in same-sex relationships to be ordained as clergy. This comes after a similar mandate that was to allow gay clergy was defeated two years ago.
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UK Journalists’ Tweets To Be Regulated
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reports over the weekend have claimed that UK journalist and newspaper Twitter feeds are possibly going to become regulated. In essence they’ll be brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission later in the year. No doubt fingers will strike keypads aggressively in weeks to come, the fearless bunch that the UK press are.
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Naked Marathon Runner Gets Tasered
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Loyal 2oceansvibe readers will be relatively well versed in terms of what it takes to pull off a flesh-revealing stunt in a race. Remember when Evan Price rode the Argus earlier this year in that Borat mankini? Alas, Brett Henderson hasn’t been as lucky. Mind you, he was effectively just long-distance streaking.
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Facebook Sued – Parent Doesn’t Like ‘Likes’
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In other Facebook news today, the social media platform is in hot water again for its marketing tactics. A father in the US is suing Facebook for not getting permission from parents or guardians before letting other users know when children ‘like’ brands. I’m not sure my dad would know what a ‘like’ was if it hit him with a stick.
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Government To Consider Legal Rhino Horn Trade
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Government has decided to mull over the idea of legalising the trade of rhino horn in a bid to curb the illegal trade and protect the endangered species. This comes in the wake of the news that we have lost over 138 rhinos in the first quarter of 2011.
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Farmer Murdered, Dragged Behind Bakkie
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This story echoes like an apartheid-style murder and I watched, perplexed, on Sunday as certain subcultures of the Twitter feed buzzed with excitement at the possibility of a racial incident. This murder went largely ignored, surprisingly, given the magnitude of the violence committed in such a heinous act.
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Apple Rejects New iPhone Game, “Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration”
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new iPhone game that’s been developed by a company from Boston, and that allows users to drive a truck full of immigrants through the desert while trying to prevent them from getting thrown out of the vehicle, has understandably been rejected by Apple Inc. The bigoted game can still be downloaded for PC’s and Mac’s though.
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Entire Himalayan Male Voice Choir Vanishes At Heathrow
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s understandable that one of the world’s busiest airports has been even busier during the course of the last week. London was expecting an influx of around 600 000 tourists alone and it’s now emerged that 10 members of a visiting male Himalayan choir have used the opportunity and “absconded”. Cue an interesting episode of UK Border Force.
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“She’s Dying Already, There’s No Point In Calling The Ambulance.”
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
“A sergeant came around from the charge office and walked out of the station. He didn’t say anything, but walked to her passenger window. He shot her upper arm and it looked like the bullet went through her breast and out of her chest.” Sipho Baloyi, car guard and witness to the fatal shooting outside the Kempton Park Police Station.
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Paseka Motsoeneng, The Biscuit Pastor
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 179 Comments
Two Sunday World journalists reported on Sunday that they saw a church leader, and self-styled prophet, Paseka Motsoeneng, insert his fingers into the vaginas of two female congregants as part of a ritual he performed to expel the demons that had allegedly possessed their “biscuits”. The pastor also has a television show on Soweto TV on DSTV channel 150.
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Hotel Linen: Towel Thieves’ Comeuppance
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Linen Technology Tracking from Miami, Florida, recently patented a radio-frequency identification chip that’s been designed to manage stock counts of inventory items that frequently get mislaid or stolen. Enter: hotel linen protection. You’re going to need to think twice about nicking that towel now.
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Facebook Faces New Suit
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just when it looked as if the commotion over Facebook’s early days might be about to disappear, the long-running legal shenanigans over the rightful ownership of the online social network has sprung another surprise. Paul Ceglia has submitted a complaint with e-mails that he claimed would support his case for a share in the company.
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The Marijuana Carbon Footprint
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That is correct, that grass might not be that green after all. A researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has revealed in a report entitled “Energy up in Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production” that indoor growers account for approximately one percent of total US electricity use.
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Buy A “Jou Ma Se Burger” At Castello’s
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Marketing can be a really beautiful thing. It’s also a touch difficult to remain original within the fast paced environment of radvertising these days. So, when someone gets it right, like launching a “jou ma se burger” for instance, one just has to give it the old customary head-nod and one-corner-of-the-mouth-curling smile it so rightly deserves.
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FearSquare, Because How Dangerous Is Your Location
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The use of the FourSquare application has been popular to say the least. You know, you sign yourself in at a particular place in a brave attempt to make others jealous of where you currently are, it shows up in your various newsfeeds and boom, you are instantly cool. Now there’s FearSquare.
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France Introduces Burqa Ban Today – Ban Defied
11 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The controversial law banning full-face veils came into effect today in France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim population. Public wearing of niqabs or burqas is now liable for a fine of 150 euros and a citizenship course; people charged with forcing women to wear full-face veils may be subject to jail time.
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Sunderland Fan Sues Over Ball In Face
08 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Sunderland chairman, Niall Quinn, has revealed that the club is in the process of being sued by a fan. The fan was injured when a stray shot hit him in the face while watching the team train a couple of years back. Apparently the Djibril Cisse strike knocked the fan clean out.
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Facebook Launches “Journalists On Facebook”
06 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a much anticipated move, the social media giant has finally unveiled its next step in advancing the power of journalism through social networking. It’s described as a central resource tool for journalists and the public to share, interact and find sources on the site. Try and stop us now Julius, Jimmy, Floyd and the other haters out there.
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