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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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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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Buzz-Kill Benedict Shuts Down Monastery
25 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pope Benedict XVI has shut down a famous Monastery in Rome, run by a former nightclub dancing nun. The monastery, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, holds some of the most precious relics in the Church, but the Pope has cut the partying short.
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US Treasury Agrees To Sell $5.8 Billion Worth Of AIG Shares
25 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The US Treasury has announced that it has agreed to sell part of its stake in American International Group (AIG), as it winds down the ownership of the global insurer it helped bail out of very troubled waters back when the financial crisis iceberg first struck.
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Vodacom’s Airtime In Advance
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In what I think is a great idea, Vodacom has announced that it will be launching a service called “Airtime Advance” that allows customers to get some desperately needed airtime in advance before they recharge.
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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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Tuesday Morning Radvertising: Chubby Dudes In Amsterdam Sell Ad Space
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Dutch advertising company Interbest gets snaps for their bid to sell ad space on highway billboards. They displayed a chubby, hairy, dude, with an article of clothing removed every day – above the tagline, ‘The sooner you advertise here, the better.’ I know fat jokes aren’t classy, but these just worked.
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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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Malema Refuses Live E-TV Debate With Mazibuko, Calls Her The Madam’s Tea Lady [VIDEO]
20 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Final results of the local government elections have been trickling in all day and the country’s free broadcaster has been doing a good job of keeping live feeds interesting. Just after lunchtime things got a little hectique though when ANCYL child Julius Malema refused a live debate with the DA’s Lindiwe Mazibuko, calling her “The madam’s tea lady.”
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