Pistorius’s defense was dealt a heavy blow after it was revealed in court that the ‘Blade Runner’ was planning on stocking up enough arms to become Rambo. A month after he shot Reeva Steenkamp he canceled a large gun order he placed in June 2012.
No doubt you’ll have noticed by now that Oscar Pistorius’ defence council, Advocate Barry Roux enjoys putting it to people. He puts it to them, he gets back to putting it to them, and then he puts it on their studio. He’s also putting it all over Twitter.
Terry Richardson is infamous for his behaviour around the models he shoots. Models are too afraid of speaking out against the controversial photographer, as they know that doing so would likely end their careers. Finally, model Charlotte Waters spoke up about her encounter with the famed man, and her account is horrific.
A car chase involving three hijackings was caught on film by news helicopters in Denver, USA on Wednesday. The footage shows how the maniac was chased by the cops in full detail.
South by South West – one of the world’s most anticipated and exciting music/film/tech festivals – has been marred by the actions of an allegedly drunk person behind the wheel of a car.
Blayne Shepard, one of the four men on trial for the murder of a former Royal Marine outside a Durban rugby match, received a threatening message through Facebook while he was in court.
CCTV footage shows a police officer repeatedly punching a woman suspected of shoplifting. The policeman claimed it was a momentary loss of control, when the woman bit him and told him she had AIDS. Lovely stuff!
When men try to imitate the voice of a woman, they typically raise their voices to a higher pitch, and in the end, sound like men imitating women. Actually training a man to “sound” like a woman is enormously difficult and doesn’t have much to do with pitch, says Monique Rissen- Harrisberg CEO of one of South Africa’s leading communication’s training companies, The Voice Clinic.
Much has been made of the defence’s argument in the Oscar Pistorius trial that witnesses Michelle Burger and Charl Johnson did not in fact hear gun shots on the morning of 14 February 2013, but the sound of Oscar Pistorius beating down the bathroom door with a cricket bat in an attempt to reach Reeva Steenkamp, and save her life.
EWN’s Cape Talk have reported that this video posted yesterday shows an arrest undertaken in Cape Town. The IPID (Independent Police Investigative Directorate) are investigating the police involved in the arrest, as they appear to have used unjustified force. Particularly, police strip the arrested man of his clothing in the street, grab him by the throat, and kick him in the genitals.
Some people can’t get enough of Bieber’s arrest in January. Here is the video of Bieber taking a urine test. Justin ‘more-than-two-shakes-and-you’re-playing-with-it’ Bieber’s privacy was maintained thanks to the superimposition of a magical black box.
The BBC has apologised for playing audio clips of howling dogs, a shrieking woman and yelling men during a radio report on Oscar Pistorius’s trial proceedings. The radio host claimed the sound clips to be due to “technical problems” – sure. It’s not the first time BBC offered an apology after reporting about Pistorius’s case. […]
A former SA cricketer has been accused of rape. The accused may not be named until he appears in court but it has been reported that the man represented South Africa during the the 1992 World Cup.
At the sentencing of Liam Humbles, for shooting an 18-year-old dead, the Australian court allowed for the shocking videos of his arrest to be released. Humbles, 17 at the time, was high on a mixture of drugs and alcohol, when he shot Lewis McPherson.
Two of the cyclists believed to be behind the assault of a motorist in Sea Point on Sunday, are expected to appear in court today after the video of their assault went viral this week. In the video cyclists were seen battering and ramming their bicycles at the motorist and used pepper spray on the driver.
We’ll say it until we’re blue in the face. The integration of technology and home life is revolutionising the blue collar service market. For example, if you’ve been waiting for your local security company to release a mobile app that would allow you to monitor, arm, and bypass your home via your smartphone no matter where you are in the world, then fire them. These other guys have that issue waxed.
Meagan Simmons, known on the Internet as the “Attractive Convict,” gained notoriety for her 2010 DUI mug shot, last year. Her mug shot was used in memes that made rounds across the web last year, and she’s making the news again, this time for suing InstantCheckmate.com.
Remember the time when four Afrikaans teenagers beat a homeless black person to death for fun? They went to jail after protesting their innocence, where they took muscle enhancing stimulants and threw dorm parties before behaving like the smuggest people in the world when they were granted parole. Remember those guys? Two of them are going back to Sing-Sing.
Katerina Krejcirova is the wife of Radovan Krejcir, who is facing charges of kidnapping and attempted murder. She was arrested during her husband’s bail hearing. Armed police officials escorted Katerina out of the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court, in connection with an allegedly stolen car found on the couple’s property.
This man has no effs to give. 21-year-old, Daniel Kowalski was arrested in Cook (yes) County in the States, and charged with charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of methamphetamine manufacturing materials – he was running a meth lab out of his home. Please enjoy the t-shirt he put on for his mugshot.
Today in the Constitutional Court Auction Alliance won a long running case against the Estate Agency Affairs Board. The Constitutional Court has now confirmed a previous order of the Western Cape High Court which declared sections of the Estate Agency Affairs Act and the Financial Intelligence Centre Act as unconstitutional and invalid. Auction Alliance’s legal council, […]
Sanele Goodness May – the driver of the truck that caused the horrific collision on 5 September last year in Pinetown – will not face murder charges. The Directorate of Public Prosecutions have amended 24 charges of murder faced by May to culpable homicide.
The trial of Oscar Pistorius will be partially televised. Thus spake Judge Dunstan Mlambo at the North Gauteng High Court.
Leave it to the tax man to get the job done. An investigation by the SARS elite Tax and Customs Enforcement Investigations (TCEI) unit has linked members of the Zuma family to organised crime. Two of the companies under investigation had employed Zuma’s son, Edward, and his nephew, Khulubuse. They are thought to have been employed as “political insurance.”
Being a Mexican cartel kingpin pays really well. After a decade long manhunt, the elusive Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was detained in Mazatlán, Mexico. Rated as the number one supplier of illegal drugs in the US, he even made the Forbes billionaire list.
If you’re going to be a complete a-hole and threaten people with a fake gun as you drive by, it’s probably best not to post those hijinks to any kind of social media. Twenty-one-year-old Daron Stinson is facing a host of felonies after he “pretended” to rob and shoot at frightened pedestrians with a pellet […]
Welcome to Sudan, where you’ll be sentenced to one month jail for “indecent activity” if you’re unlucky enough to suffer gang rape. On the one hand, you get off “lightly” when authorities suspend the sentence because you’re pregnant. On the other hand, you also get fined $625. That’s what happened to an Ethiopian teenager in […]
EWN reports that details of the state’s case against murder accused, Oscar Pistorius have been leaked. The state has set out 13 facts on which it will base the bulk of its argument. They will argue that Pistorius told security guards moments after shooting Reeva Steenkamp that everything was fine at his Pretoria East home. Check out the rest of their case, below.
What you have here is a BBC documentary crew interviewing a homeless Angolan musician on the streets of Glasgow, only for racist Laurel and Hardy to rock up, and pick a fight with the guy. He humiliates them.
Two people are hoping to show that crowdfunding should not only be used to launch the next app or indie film, but to make the world that tiny bit better. Pete and Sarah Portal are trying to save Manenberg by inspiring change in one of Cape Town’s most gang-infested communities. Here’s how you can help.