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Biggest Sexual Harassment Payout Ever, After Manager Hits Woman On Head With Penis
13 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
The trouble started when Richard Moore started sending unwelcome gifts and chocolates to Ashley Alford, demanding “sucky-sucky” in return. But Ashley never gave her manager any sucky-sucky. That’s when our boy took things to the next level by sneaking up on Ashley, holding her by her ponytail, and whacking her on the head with his […]
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Woman Sues Mpumalanga Hospital For R7 Million
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A mother is suing the Mpumalanga department of health for negligence on the part of the hospital which delivered her son, to the tune of R7-million. The boy suffered severe injuries during birth. He is now eight years old.
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Go Ahead, Search Me
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Random security checks are commonplace in the states. Surely these people are eventually going to get tired of having full body pat-downs while, say, shopping for discounted Caesar salads at their local Costco, you say. Well, the guys at 4th Amendment Wear are definitely bored with the American security tyranny.
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Australia Plans To Shoot Camels To Generate Carbon Credits
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Australian government appears to be seriously considering a culling-for-carbon-credits plan to reduce the methane emissions from the estimated 1.2 million wild camels roaming the outback. Earlier today we reported that domestic cats in parts of Sydney have a curfew. Now camels are in trouble for burping and farting too much.
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Study Finds The Average Video Gamer To Be 37
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A study done by some reputable people has found the average video gamer to be around 37. Quick question: who do you picture when you think about a 37 year-old gamer? Does it involve someone who has yet to lose his virginity, or someone who can actually speak Klingon? You’d be wrong. The study cites more parents playing games with their children as main reason.
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Desmond Tutu Rubbishes Information Bill’s Current Form, Unites Country Against It
08 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The campaign against the current tabulated form of the proposed Protection of Information Bill peaked at the end of last week. The ANC finally realised how silly it might look in the long-run and joined the united push for a postponement on its signing. Desmond Tutu is now rallying us all to get behind our freedom too.
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Quite Possibly The Best Beer Commercial That There Ever Was [VIDEO]
08 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
moonage3, who uploaded this advert by Hahn Brewery, called it the ‘Most EPIC beer commercial EVER.’ Now, the word ‘epic’ is getting a little stale, and nobody likes too many letters in upper case, but just this once I’m in agreement with moonage3. Please. Let Hahn Brewery show you how they put awesome in a bottle.
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South African Scholars Get Two More Well-Deserved Long Weekends
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
To all the overworked and swamped scholars in South Africa, we’d like to say please hang on a little bit longer – help is on the way! The education department has announced that students will now also get June 17 and August 8 off from school. This is due to the those dates’ “proximity to public holidays”.
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Donald Trump’s New $100 Million Private Jet [Video]
07 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
It is important that you watch videos like this, because it will give you ideas for when you win one of the overseas lotteries. Donald Trump has just bought himself a new Boeing 757 Private Jet for $100 Million. So with some of the big overseas lottery jackpots (they go up to $250 Million) you […]
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Fox News FAIL: Photo Of Tina Fey In Sarah Palin Report [PIC]
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wow. How something like this even happens, I’m not even sure. But, it is both hilarious, and an epic fail. During a Fox News report on 2012 American presidential candidates, Fox News displayed a picture of Tina Fey playing Palin on an episode of Saturday Night Live instead of showing an actual picture of Sarah Palin. Awkward.
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Swedish King In Strip Club Scandal
06 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I shall not for a moment attempt to feign journalistic integrity here. This is the kind of thing the public loves. Allegations that King Carl Gustaf of Sweden has been visiting strip clubs and having affairs has the media baying for blood and the public frothing at the mouth.
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Whites Never Voted For The ANC: Malema
06 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
I can’t help it. I have to write about this. It’s too good not to write about. Insanity is always funny. In this case the insanity comes once more from the king’s jester, Julius. He said yesterday that he didn’t drive white people away from voting for the ANC, because they never voted for the ANC in the first place.
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ANC Calls For Delay On Info Bill Draft, No Spice
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For once, news that seems to be too good to be true, actually is true. The ANC has done a little back-peddle today and called for an extension to the June 24 deadline to complete the drafting of the Protection of Information Bill. Jimmy Manyi must be beside himself at the moment.
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Playboy SA Editor Resigned Over Moral Qualms
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the most ironic professional move since Cope’s formation as an answer to political party infighting and corruption, the editor of Playboy South Africa has resigned, citing concerns that the magazine would descend into smut and vice.
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Breakfast With Malema, A Steal At R50 000
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s right, the ANC Youth League; that bastion of the people – that pillar of hope in a senseless world, that celestial body by which we set our lives – is selling access to Malema and friends at the first ever ANCYL Business Networking Lounge™, during the 24th national ANCYL congress.
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South Africa’s Projected Internet Traffic, 2011-2015
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Cisco have just come out with their annual Visual Networking Index, which is a pretty reliable source of internet traffic reporting. Global traffic will quadruple, by 2015, with Asia’s traffic generation overtaking North America. Which is cool, but less cool than the stuff they say about traffic in South Africa, which is after the jump.
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Insight: The Kruger National Park Hotel Development Saga
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
2oceansVibe staffer and avowed earthchild, Bearded Wiseman, sinks his teeth into the weighty issue of hotel development in the Kruger National Park, and nails his colours firmly to the mast of the godless neo-conservative capitalists who critics say want to turn the Kruger National Park into Disney Land. Notes from the thinking man’s greeny – here’s […]
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Hawks, SA Revenue Services Raid Controversial Durban Tycoon’s Home
01 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It has been confirmed that the Hawks and the South African Revenue Services have raided the home of the controversial Durban tycoon Sbu Mpisane and his wife Shaun on Wednesday morning. You’ll know the guy that I’m speaking about. The dude who’s wife bought him a Maserati GranCabrio for his 40th recently.
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Joburg’s Only Refugee Centre To Close
01 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Johannesburg is undoubtedly the economic centre of Africa. With this follows the allure of prosperity and the chance to better ones life through economic empowerment and social status. Now the only centre for asylum seekers and refugees in Joberg will be closed after local businesses won a court application against the Department of Home Affairs.
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Gauteng Police Commissioner’s Rented Home To Cost R745 000
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South African police commissioners have notably enjoyed the odd perk here and there when it comes to matters of their private lives. It has emerged that Gauteng police commissioner, Mzwandile Petros, is no exception to this common occurrence and has a new two year lease costing R30 000 a month.
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Extreme Close-Up Of Kim Kardashian’s Engagement Ring
31 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
We featured pics of Kimbo arriving at LAX Airport the other day and although those sights might have satisfied some of the girls out there, I don’t think it fully gave you what you wanted – which is this – an ultra-zoomed in hi-res pic of the $2million rock in question. Put your sunglasses on […]
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Smartphone Cigarette Sharing: Marlboro ‘Bump A Smoke’ App
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The concept for a Marlboro cigarrette-swapping smartphone app has been making the rounds – the idea being that social smokers would be able to trade digital cigarettes for real ones using bump technology, and ‘hardcore smokers’ would be able to redeem the digital smokes for real ones once they’d accumulated enough.
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Australian Senator Demands FIFA “Refunds” Bid Money
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a statement titled “Red Card for FIFA”, independent senator Nick Xenophon has urged the federal government to ask for a refund from FIFA of the A$45.6 million spent on the failed bid to host the 2022 World Cup, saying the bid could not succeed because of corruption within football’s world governing body.
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UK Council Libel Case Forces Twitter To Reveal UK Users
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter has been ordered to hand over confidential details of five British users in what may become a landmark case for the social networking website. It is believed to be the first time the social networking site has been forced to provide details about users in the UK.
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Sunday Times “The End Of Radio As We Know It”
29 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 5 Comments
We were lucky enough to be featured in the Lifestyle section of today’s Sunday Times, in a piece written by everyone’s favourite columnist, Lin Sampson. In the article, entitled “The End Of Radio As We Know It,” Lin confirms that Tim Harris, the DA’s Shadow Minister of Trade & Industry, is the only person in politics that one […]
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Is It A Boy Or A Girl? Parents Not Telling, Baby Will Decide
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The name Storm is gender-neutral, but it’s also listed as a synonym for controversy in some dictionaries. And at just four months old, blond-haired, blue-eyed Storm and its (sic) Canadian family have opened up a debate that is getting traditionalists and liberals understandably excited.
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Google Has A Shiny New Mobile Payment Service
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Wallet and Google Offers launched yesterday, both of which sound supremely cool – PayPal’s grumblings (and lawsuits) about commercial espionage notwithstanding. Google Wallet lets users swipe their phones in lieu of credit cards, even allowing subscription to a new prepaid Google debit card; Google Offers looks to work like a virtual loyalty card.
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Gaddafi Said To Seek Refuge In Tripoli’s Hospitals At Night
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A European government official has claimed that Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is travelling between Tripoli’s hospitals at night to elude bombing raids by NATO jets. The official has said that he is doing this because he knows that the hospitals are something that the air raids will not target.
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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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Lunar Eclipse Time Everyone
26 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) has announced that we’ll be treated to a total lunar eclipse on the 15th of June. And apparently this one is rather special huzza!
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