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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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Wednesday Radvertising: ‘Poolball’ [VIDEO]
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, Budweiser really wants you to drink their beer. I’m not going to, but I appreciate the effort they’re putting into the European re-branding initiative – like with this 7-meter Astroturf pool table, with built in fridge, that they put together for playing ‘poolball’ on. Take a look! It’s pretty rad.
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Bin Laden Aides Bought Big Orders Of Coke And Pepsi At Local Grocer
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It has emerged that Rashid and Akbar Khan, the two Pakistanis who helped Osama bin Laden hide in the shadows of their country’s army, bought large food orders for those living at the compound. They chose big brands and equally favoured Pepsi and Coke, neighbours and a local shopkeeper have claimed.
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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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Mugabe Attends Beatification Of Pope John Paul II Despite Travel Ban, Calls It “Fabulous”
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite a ban on traveling to the European Union for the last decade, Robert Mugabe once again found himself there this weekend. He attended the beatification of the late pope John Paul II. The experience clearly touched that (only to be confirmed by autopsy one day) heart of his and he said it was “fabulous, absolutely heavenly.” Fabulous? What straight man uses that word?
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Tony Blair’s Tenure As Prime Minister “Rendered Completely Useless” – Sam Delaney Discusses The Royal Wedding
01 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
A lot of you will recognise Sam Delaney as the awfully funny guy that reads the newspaper headlines on SKY News with former 2oceansvibe guest, Charlotte Hawkins. I am not 100% sure on which exact day of the week Sam appears on SKY News, or whether his guest appearances are merely ad hoc, but when […]
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Kulula In-Flight Magazine Feature
30 Apr 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I’ll be honest, my friends and I have been practicing the climbing-out-of-the-pool-with-water-pouring-down-our-faces men’s fragrance commercial ripoff for quite some time. Now whilst GQ allowed a bit of indulgence, it was only when Kulula came to the party – allowing such ridiculousness – that the years of training finally paid off! Morne Van Zyl took the […]
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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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Meet The Cast Of The UK Version Of Jersey Shore – Geordie Shore! [VIDEO]
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’ve seen those orange Guido’s in Jersey Shore with names like The Situation, Snooki, JWoww, and Sweetheart. Now get ready for the UK version with the same custard-coloured, massive and ripped, carbon-copy cast but with UK accents. In this series they’ll do exactly what their American counterparts are doing with their existence: NOTHING. Meet them inside.
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Karl Lagerfield Has A Chocolate Sculpture Of His Boyfriend
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
But seriously! Lagerfield had a candy sculpture of Baptiste Giabiconi comissioned to promote Magnum ice cream. It’s wearing white briefs, and is placed inside of a room made of chocolate. There are so many comments to make about this that I am just going to report the facts and let you guys run with it, okay?
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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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Police Stop ANC Members From Disrupting DA Rally, Makes You Think
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Police had to step in yesterday when a group of ANC supporters attempted to stop a DA rally from taking place in the Mamelodi Township in Pretoria. This is just a blip on the South African political radar that will quickly be forgotten, but it gave me pause for thought.
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Facebook Launches New “Send” Button
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This new feature will be available to all Facebook users and it’s been designed to make sharing easier, and a little more private. Its social networking architecture will work best with Facebook’s Groups function that was introduced last October, but don’t expect it to make streamlined advertising any harder either.
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SA Pilot, Charlie Strachan, Is Invited To Kate and William’s Wedding
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So the royal guest list has been announced and I am pleased to report that South African born pilot, Charlie Strachan, has been invited. Charlie, who works for Kenya-based Tropic Air, befriended the prince two years ago, when William went for a hike in Kenya.
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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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Allan Lamb’s Daughter Auditions For Supersport [Video]
23 Apr 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
The blonde in the middle of that group-shot is cricket legend Allan Lamb‘s daughter, Katie-Ann. It was from a fundraiser shoot she did a couple years back, to raise awareness for breast cancer. Nice. Katie-Ann flew into Jo’burg from England especially to audition for Supersport’s new ‘Lady Rugga” vibe – in search of a female […]
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Old Spice Has A Man On The Side [VIDEO]
21 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Old Spice has launched a new marketing campaign for its ‘Jungle Wilderness’ scent, featuring a vague parody of manly mascot Isaiah Mustafa. I mean, it’s funny and good but mostly I feel a big ol’ Isaiah Mustafa-shaped vacuum when watching this. Click through, though. Moustaches.
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Chinese Animal Activists Save Hundreds Of Dogs From Being Eaten [VIDEO]
21 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In what is not your typical Chinese dog story, hundreds of dogs were spared from being served as the main course in restaurants in China last Friday. Activists managed to stage a 15-hour standoff in order to save them from the dinner table.
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Five Million Lucky South Africans Have More Than One ID
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You may knowingly or unknowingly be one of five million South Africans who have two Identity Documents, even if you don’t want two. Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said yesterday that they were able to determine this fact by checking the re-issue dates of documents. Simple, but brilliant.
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Buy An Entire Italian Village For $800 000
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The recession is serving up another good deal, friends. For about R5,4 million you can buy the historic village of Valle Piola in Italy. It’s surrounded by wild and mountainous terrain, and is set in the heart of one of the country’s biggest national parks, Gran Sasso.
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The Chinese ‘Jasmine-Revolution:’ Turning Politburo Paranoia Against Itself
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A number of bloggers have been making reference to a ‘Jasmine Revolution,’ wherein Chinese citizens show discontent for local corruption by walking around crowded public areas on Sunday afternoons. This never happened, but Sunday walks did. Authorities are convinced that the protest is still happening.
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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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NASA Awards $269 Million For Private Projects
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
On Monday NASA announced it was distributing $269 million to four companies for them to develop spacecraft to take astronauts into orbit. The investment is an Obama administration gamble that will enable commercial companies to get people to and from orbit in quicker time and with less cost.
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Nandos Ambushes Vodacom, Scratches MTN’s Back
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, I see what they’re doing here. They’re creating a social commentary “meme”, which will in turn translate into peaked “sales”. “Kudos” to you guys. Great “activation” there. In all sincerity, keep it up, Nandos. You’re doing well.
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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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Microsoft Launches Streetside As Google Maps Rival
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Microsoft has decided to have a real dig at the Google group by launching its own 3D mapping system. The unique selling point thus far – they will be taking numerous precautionary measures to ensure that they don’t fall into the data privacy trap like Google did.
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Donald Trump Vents His Spleen On Vanity Fair
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Donald Trump is many things. Once man’s tycoon is another’s cantankerous old curmudgeon. Our opinion of the man falls somewhere in between those two markers. Trump’s latest obsession is taking a permanent marker to negative press.
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Protesting: The Devil Is In The Detail
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When you’re protesting for better working conditions, or any working conditions at all, really, it’s important to be specific in your demands. Well done to this gentleman, who appeared in this photograph on the front page of 13 April’s Argus. Be sure to read that sign he is holding.. The photograph related to a story […]
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