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Acting National Police Commissioner Hints At Political Instructions
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Acting national police commissioner, General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, hinted on Thursday to MP’s that police had been instructed on which cases were “off limits” to them. He said this was something that was happening a lot “of late”, and that the instructions came from “powers beyond us”.
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13-Year-Old Kenyan Boy Saves Cattle From Lions With Invention
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Wherever humans and wild animals come into close contact with one another, there will likely be negative consequences for one or the other, or both. 13-year-old Richard Turere, who lives in Empakasi, on the edge of the Nairobi National Park, just south of Nairobi, has invented a system that keeps his family’s cattle safe from lions that had previously sought an easy meal from their herd.
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Boeing Teams Up With SA Flight School To Train Pilots
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
In what is a first for Boeing Commercial Aviation outside of the United States, it has been announced that the aviation giant will team up with a flying school in the Eastern Cape to meet increased demand for air crews across the continent.
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Facebook Targets May 17th For IPO Launch
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Signs suggest that Facebook is looking to have its initial public offering launch on on May 17th, assuming that the Securities & Exchange commission rubber-stamps all of the social network’s paperwork – including documents concerning Facebook’s recent billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram. Facebook is set to be initially valued at around $100 billion.
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Former “House” Star Poses Nude For PETA
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With the sad news that this season will be the last of the popular medical drama, House, it’s good to know that the cast members are at least moving on with their lives, and adding their voices to the many causes out there. This includes posing for PETA, which a female cast member has done. Can you guess who?
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Tech Report – Pirating On The Cyber Seas
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Steve Jobs once said, “Why join the navy when you can be a pirate?” The internet has changed everything, mostly for the better, but it’s also made it easy to steal stuff. So what makes a pirate on the cyber seas? In this episode Seth gets out his eye-patch, peg-leg and parrot and tries to […]
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Blue Light Driver In Teen’s Accident Faces Criminal Charges
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The driver of the blue light vehicle which knocked Thomas Ferreira off his motorcycle last year will be criminally prosecuted. The case will be of particular interest to Ferreira’s family, who nursed Thomas through a coma of several weeks and a slow and costly rehabilitation following the accident.
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Khulubuse Zuma’s Assets Go Under The Hammer On Monday
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
But the miners he left jobless at Aurora mines will not get a cent from him. The embarrassment for the Zuma and Mandela family names continues as Zondwa Mandela’s assets are expected to be attached next. Mandela has been charged with fraud, too.
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It’s Probably Not A Bad Idea To Buy Capitec Shares
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Capitec shares rose to close at a new high of R214,76 yesterday. The bank also recently announced a dividend of 300c per share, showing why it isn’t surprising that analysts have happily placed “buy” recommendations on the stock.
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BREAKING: Soweto Gang Rape Victim Found Alive
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
This morning we told you about the horrible incident that saw a group of boys in Soweto kidnap and gang-rape an underage girl on camera. Concerns were even higher, as the girl featured in the video was reported missing as well. The good news is that she has reportedly been found alive and is currently at the Dobsonville police station.
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What Classic Show Is Single-Handedly Saving SABC 3’s Ratings Death Spiral?
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s hard to find a success story in the spiralling shit storm that is practically everything to do with the SABC these days, but SABC3 have bucked the trend a little, reaching into TV history for a programme that is turning their ratings nosedive around – and you’ll never guess who it is!
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Online Shopping Is On The Increase In SA – Except Grocery Shopping
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The vast majority of active South African internet users are now very happy to buy stuff online, according to the results of a survey of the online retail market, released today. The only type of shopping we’re still not comfortable doing on the internet? Grocery shopping.
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Cosatu Vows “Mother Of All Protests”
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
“People power has brought down governments in North Africa; it can surely stop this assault on our living standards.” Cosatu has shown it doesn’t mess around when it comes to voicing its opinion. But will the “mother of all protests” against e-tolls actually make any difference?
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Indie Princess And Badass Mother Star In Apple’s New Siri Ads [VIDEO]
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple have been known to lure some of the entertainment industry’s biggest names to promote their products, and their two latest ambassadors are no exception. The one has been nabbed from her throne in hipsters’ hearts, and the other from the walls of cult movie fans. Click through to see the respective icons plugging Apple’s flagship device.
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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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Tuesday Radvertising: Blackriver FC Does It Again For Nando’s
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s been a few months since Nando’s has graced us with one of their viral hits, but the long wait is over. Hot off of the video presses, their latest offering is a cunning spoof of an all too familiar ad. Click through for the video.
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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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Cape Town Documentary Accused Of Luring Sharks To Popular Beaches
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Earlier this month we told you about National Geographic shooting a shark documentary in Cape Town – with the support of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. But yesterday Dirk Schmidt, author of “White Sharks”, has called for the immediate issuing of a high shark alert – saying the filming is attracting sharks to Cape Town’s popular beaches.
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Charlie Sheen’s Hilarious Bavaria Beer Commercial [VIDEO]
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You can say a lot of things about Charlie Sheen, but the guy’s sense of humour is pretty legit. Check out his appearance in a TV advert for Bavaria’s non-alcoholic beer – blatantly mocking his sobriety – after the jump.
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Stay Tuned: SA’s “Shambolic” Digital Switch Over Pushed Back Again
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South Africa’s transition to full digital terrestrial broadcasting is one of those processes that one measures in aeons, like the lifespan of stars or the inexorable evolution of monkey-fish-frogs into homo sapiens. The Ministry of Communications released the latest twist in this lengthy tale this morning, so get your R700 Set Top Box fee ready while we explore Dina’s latest digital daydream, after the jump!
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Jimmy Manyi Wants To Control All Government Advertising
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s about monitoring and enforcing adherence to the “government brand”, Manyi says. The advertising of all government departments would likely be centralised in his office very soon. The predictable news emerged while Manyi was speaking at a community media indaba on Saturday.
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Google Co-Founder Says Facebook & Apple Threaten Internet Freedom
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.
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Vietnamese Police Officer Is Passionate [VIDEO]
13 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unfortunately we don’t speak enough Vietnamese around the 2oceansVibe Compound to know exactly what Lieutenant Nguyen Manh Phan was saying, but we understand that the Vietnamese policeman is very passionate about his job. He made the bus stop.
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UK Paperback Sales Drop 25% Year-On-Year
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It was only going to be a matter of time before we started seeing the real impact of e-readers on paperback sales. On top of the figure quoted in the headline above, industry analysts, Nielsen BookScan, say that overall, total book sales are down by 11 per cent, according to their latest figures.
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BREAKING: David Bullard Lays Criminal Charges Against Mondli Makhanya
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Former Sunday Times editor and chairperson of the South African National Editors Forum, Mondli Makhanya, has been charged with the criminal offences of forgery and uttering, fraud, and attempting to obstruct the course of justice. The charges were laid at Parkview SAPS. Click through for the whole story, including Bullard’s statement!
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Mind-Blowing TNT Public Advertising Is Mind-Blowing [VIDEO]
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A big, red push button was recently placed on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. A sign with the text “Push to add drama” invited people to use the button. The result is nothing short of mind-blowing. Find out what happened – after the jump!
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Durban Harbour Police Caught With Prostitutes, Indulging In “Num-Num”
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The art of indulging in “num-num”, or free sex with a prostitute, may be news to you and I. But it isn’t to two members of Durban’s SAPS’s Port Security Services unit, commonly known as the harbour police. After a high-speed chase, gunshots, and a bite from a police dog, the two officers and their “partners”, were eventually apprehended.
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Tuks Student Accidentally Shoots Herself At Graduation Ceremony
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’ve heard of the saying, “don’t take a knife to a gunfight”, but taking a gun to your graduation ceremony is just plain ridiculous. A female student at the University of Pretoria was wounded yesterday when she sat down, only to have a gun go off inside her graduation gown. She was wounded in her stomach and is “seriously injured.”
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Cellphone-Using Motorists In Cape Town May Have Mobiles Seized
11 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Many of us are still really, really naughty about making phone calls and texting while driving. This despite the obviously dangerous distraction of cellphone usage behind the wheel. New reports show there has been a spike in the number of cellphone-related road accidents in South Africa recently – surprising, given how vigorously authorities are trying to clamp down on dangerous driving.
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E-TV Journalists Detained In Swaziland
11 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to eNews Africa editor, Chris Maroleng, police in Swaziland have detained two journalists working for E-TV. It wasn’t immediately clear why they had been detained, but it was understood that the crew were on their way to report about marches taking place in the country.
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