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EXCLUSIVE: 2oceansVibe Speaks To Racist ‘Model’ Tshidi Thamana’s Ex-Agent
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
By now, many people within South Africa’s news-following public are familiar with the recent burst of racism that took place on South Africa’s twittersphere involving a model and a “model”. Mistakes were made, but the backlash and long-term effects from a social and mainstream media clamouring may have devastating consequences on the individuals involved. Things begin to go pearshaped when the media is inaccurate with information that disperses frantically when a news story of this nature breaks.
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One Of President Zuma’s Many Sons Sued For R1,5 Million Wedding Debt
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
One of President Jacob Zuma’s many sons, Edward, is being sued for R1,5 million by Functions for Africa CC. The company says Edward still owes them the shortfall from his lavish wedding that cost R2,5 million at Tala Game Reserve in KwaZulu Natal last year.
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SANRAL CEO, Nazir Alli, Hands In Resignation
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) has confirmed that CEO, Nazir Alli has resigned. Even though they did not provide more details, Alli’s resignation comes close on the heels of the recent Gauteng e-toll system disaster.
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Apple’s Wealth Visualised, They Have A Lot [INFOGRAPHIC]
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Earlier this month, Apple was briefly the most valuable company in the world, and their cash in hand value currently stands at $76,2 billion. You could literally buy anything with that and still have enough change to buy some more anything. Still struggling? Click through for a look at the National Post’s lovely, informative and aptly named More Money Than God infographic.
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Google TV Launches In The US In May
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
LG Electronics, the world’s second biggest TV maker, will launch Internet-enabled TV based on Google’s platform in the United States in May. The South Korean firm is after a share of the emerging Internet TV market, a senior LG executive said today.
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47 Ethiopian Men Rescued From Limpopo Human-Trafficking Syndicate
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
47 Ethiopian men were rescued on the weekend from being sold into slavery by a human-trafficking syndicate in Limpopo. Snatched for ransom, those whose families can’t pay, have their relatives unwillingly sold into slavery in SA. The United Nations now estimates that there are more than 27 million slaves in the world.
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GQ ‘Style’ Hits Shelves Today
07 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
You will be pleased to know that GQ’s new ‘Style’ magazine hits shelves today. I think the guy on the cover is absolutely killing it. Look at him. Just dishing out fistfuls of napalm, willy nilly. Check this vibe out: It is with great pleasure and excitement that GQ South Africa announces the launch of GQ […]
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Amanda Palmer Is Crowdsourcing Her New Album [VIDEO]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You guys have heard of Kickstarter – that site that lets people pitch their projects for funding to the internet at large, and which has led to new apps, art projects, and a Robocop statue in Detroit. All of which stopped mattering when Amanda Palmer raised $500 000 in four days on the platform – with 24 days of funding remaining.
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Jessica Leandra Stripped Of FHM Title After Racist Tweets
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 16 Comments
Fury broke out across social networks today after FHM model Jessica Leandra dropped the K-bomb on a “gentleman” in a shop last night. In an attempt to explain where “her anger boiled from”, she updated her blog, also saying she is “apologetic”. FHM, however, has since publicly distanced themselves from her. Read the full statement by editor, Brendan Cooper, after the jump.
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Harry Wins Invisibility, Watch His Fantastically Weird Online Video
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last year Stimorol rolled out a series of ads to promote their Infinity range, in the TV spots gum-chewers were caught in an infinite loop of increasingly bizarre situations. In their latest radvertising venture we’re taken to even more bizarre heights, featuring an anthro-dog, a bouncer in a tie-dyed one piece and a creepy man in a polo-neck.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Faces Gang Rape Charges
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, along with three other Frenchmen, have been accused of gang rape. Judges in charge of the investigation into a prostitution ring involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn now face two options: dismiss the new allegations, or bring charges of gang rape against them. It’s likely that the charges will stick.
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Leandra Latest: Jessica Takes To Her Website To Apologise
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 13 Comments
With her name trending on Twitter, and most of the major news outlets having picked up the story, Jessica Leandra is having a pretty crap Friday thus far. Last night she tweeted a little bigotry that she may regret for a lot longer than it took her to respond to the backlash on her website. Her full apology, after the jump, but is it enough?
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Facebook Filed Its IPO Yesterday
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mark Zuckerberg officially filed its IPO with Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday afternoon, announcing its intention to sell 337 million shares at between $28 and $35 a pop – in the biggest Internet stock offering since Google went public in 2004. They’ll be going roadshow for the next two weeks to let big investors see what they’re buying.
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Tweet All About It! FHM Model Jessica Leandra Drops K-Bomb In Spar [PICS]
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 67 Comments
You cannot make this stuff up. FHM model and self-described “glamorous blonde of Mediterranean nationality, born and bred in South Africa” dropped a K-bomb on another shopper during altercation in Spar last night, and then took to Twitter with her bile. More of Jessica’s online foolishness, after the jump!
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Times Are Tough: Even One Cent Savings Are Celebrated At Pick n Pay
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Well at least we know where we are doing our shopping this weekend.
Thanks Richard.
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Nobel Prize Winner Nadine Gordimer Says Scrap Info Bill “In Its Entirety”
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On World Press Freedom Day, the highly acclaimed writer, and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Nadine Gordimer, called for the Protection of Information Bill to be “rejected in its entirety.” She launched the scathing rebuttal in an article entitled, “South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom”, on the New York Review of Books website.
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Lion Bone Trade On The Rise
02 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s next poaching epidemic could emanate out of the trade in lion body parts. Lion bones are being used as a replacement for tiger bones to concoct traditional Asian medicines like tiger brew wine because of the demise of the region’s tiger populations. Lion are already being poached in the northern section of the Kruger National Park.
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Brand New 2oceansvibe Column – O.F.I.M.
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While T.G.I.F. garners praise from all corners of the working world, many of us lack the sort of hard-nosed attitude toward the beginning of the work week that would increase our chances of making it past Wednesday in one piece. To that end, we present our latest satirical column, O.F.I.M. (Oh, [Insert Appropriate Eff Word […]
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I Am An African Man: African Men, Hollywood Stereotypes [VIDEO]
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of the positive things to emerge from the Kony 2012 saga was the fact that discussion around some of Africa’s many problems increased. One could say that more people know about some of the things we deal with, than before Kony 2012. Charity organisation, Mama Hope, has since released a response video, seeking to break what it calls stereotypes of black African men.
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Cricket SA Finally Moves To Claim Back Unlawful Bonuses
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s been the rhetorical question on everyone’s lips for quite some time: will Cricket South Africa ever get the unlawful bonus money back from those who received it? There seems to be a chance that they will. CSA is attempting to recover R3,3 million from suspended chief executive, Gerald Majola and former chief operating officer, Don McIntosh.
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Cape Model Agency ‘FUSION MODELS’ Shuns Local Retail Business
26 Apr 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 56 Comments
If you are involved in the marketing or advertising department of any one of South Africa’s retail chains, be warned that some model agencies do not want your business. In fact, one agency in particular believes that working with you may well make them a “laughing stock.” For the last five and a half years, […]
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Nando’s Delivers On Santam’s Challenge, And Then Some
26 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Nando’s didn’t hesitate accepting the challenge that Santam had set them this week. In fact, Nando’s delivered a day early, and then bettered it, showing they definitely weren’t chicken. Some might call it a very good example of symbiotic radvertising.
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Who’s On Top Of The Forbes Wealthiest Fifteen Fictional Characters List?
26 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Forbes is well known for cataloguing the world’s powerful, rich and famous every year, but they also produce a list of fictions wealthiest characters, drawn from TV, film and literature. Who’s on top this year? A hint, he’s no friend to a thatched roof. Full list of this fictional fortune foolery, after the jump!
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Tech Report – Definitive protestor’s guide to uploading and sharing photos
26 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As Occupy Wall Street taught us, protesting is not only a fantastic way to keep your democracy vibrant and your government honest, but it also gives you a lot of ‘cool’ factor’. And nothing says street cred with protesting, like photos uploaded to the net from the actual protesting site. In this episode Seth shows […]
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Brazil’s Congress Approves Contentious New Forest Laws
26 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved contentious new legislation that eases rules on how much land farmers must preserve as forest. Environmentalists are up in arms, and say the new forest legislation will be a disaster, and lead to further destruction of the Amazon.
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Kulula Has A Special Offer – Your Fourth Wife Flies For Free
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Say what you want about South Africa, at least we’ve got some pretty good advertising in this country. It’s not just Nando’s or Santam that have the monopoly on that either. Check out this spicy ad from Kulula, telling us all about their new special.
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Controversial Foreign Policy Magazine Cover Story Sparks Debate
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Egyptian-American writer, Mona Eltahawy, has penned a controversial cover article for the latest Foreign Policy magazine, entitled: “Why Do They Hate Us?” In it, she argues that women must finish the revolutions started by the Arab Spring, and a semi-nude woman models a body-paint niqab.
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BREAKING: Urgency Granted In E-Toll Interdict Hearing
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Judge Bill Prinsloo has granted the anti-e-Tolls lobby group, OUTA, an urgent hearing to argue for an interdict against the implementation of SANRAL’s controversial e-Tolls programme, which drew the ire of motorists and labour unions across the country in recent weeks.
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Shocking Jozi Metro Cop Bribe Stats
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all knew that they were going to be bad, but to be told that one in four of Jozi’s drivers were asked for a bribe in 2010 is quite something. 154 440 motorists were asked to pay a bribe, but only 184 cases of corruption were reported.
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Forbes Reports 12 Out Of Africa’s 20 Most Powerful Business People Are South African
24 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Forbes.com released a list of Africa’s 20 most powerful business people yesterday (they do like a list over there at Forbes) and it wasn’t too hard to pick up a trend on the list of the continent’s commercial high flyers – no less than 12 of them are South African. Are we awesome, or what? We’ve got the full list, including our Mzansi business powerhouses, after the jump!
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