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Crime
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47 Ethiopian Men Rescued From Limpopo Human-Trafficking Syndicate
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
47 Ethiopian men were rescued on the weekend from being sold into slavery by a human-trafficking syndicate in Limpopo. Snatched for ransom, those whose families can’t pay, have their relatives unwillingly sold into slavery in SA. The United Nations now estimates that there are more than 27 million slaves in the world.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Faces Gang Rape Charges
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, along with three other Frenchmen, have been accused of gang rape. Judges in charge of the investigation into a prostitution ring involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn now face two options: dismiss the new allegations, or bring charges of gang rape against them. It’s likely that the charges will stick.
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Want A Piece Of History? Buy A Brick From Osama’s Compound For 40 Cents
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Osama Bin Laden is all over the news again, not bad for someone who has been dead and gone for quite some time now. Today sees the disclosure of documents seized at his compound. It is also a great opportunity for those looking for a keepsake to get in on the ground floor – the bricks from his compound are going on sale.
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Nobel Prize Winner Nadine Gordimer Says Scrap Info Bill “In Its Entirety”
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On World Press Freedom Day, the highly acclaimed writer, and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Nadine Gordimer, called for the Protection of Information Bill to be “rejected in its entirety.” She launched the scathing rebuttal in an article entitled, “South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom”, on the New York Review of Books website.
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Al-Qaeda Bargains With Abducted South African Man
02 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A South African man is being used as a bargaining tool by terrorist organisation, al-Qaeda. The 36-year-old SA national, who also has a British citizenship and whose name has not been revealed, was abducted in Mali last year by members of al-Qaeda. His freedom is now being offered, but only in exchange for Britain’s release of the militant Jordanian preacher, Abu Qatada.
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Lion Bone Trade On The Rise
02 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s next poaching epidemic could emanate out of the trade in lion body parts. Lion bones are being used as a replacement for tiger bones to concoct traditional Asian medicines like tiger brew wine because of the demise of the region’s tiger populations. Lion are already being poached in the northern section of the Kruger National Park.
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Residential Buildings To House Surface-to-Air Missiles During London Olympics
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Oh awesome, this makes total sense. The UK’s Ministry of Defense is planning to install surface-to-air missiles on top of residential flats in east London for the duration of the Olympic Games. The bulk of the missile array is intended for the Lexington Building Water Tower, which has about 700 people living in and around it.
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Cricket SA Finally Moves To Claim Back Unlawful Bonuses
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s been the rhetorical question on everyone’s lips for quite some time: will Cricket South Africa ever get the unlawful bonus money back from those who received it? There seems to be a chance that they will. CSA is attempting to recover R3,3 million from suspended chief executive, Gerald Majola and former chief operating officer, Don McIntosh.
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Controversial, Privacy-Destroying CISPA Bill Passed In House Of Representatives
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
CISPA – the ugly cousin of other internet-crippling bills SOPA and PIPA, whether Facebook admits it or not – passed late last week in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. Worse, the bill was amended before it passed to allow even more types of private information to be tapped and shared by government agencies in the US.
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Charles Taylor Found Guilty Of Aiding War Crimes By UN-Backed Court
26 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor at the Hague has come to an end with a guilty verdict in all of the eleven counts against him after nearly five years of proceedings. Taylor is the first African leader to stand trial for war crimes at the U.N.-backed International Criminal Court.
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15-Year Old Boy Mutilated, Raped 8-Year Old Girl
26 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
While on her way back from school on Monday afternoon, an 8-year girl was pulled into a sugarcane field by a 15-year old male learner, where she was brutally raped and mutilated and left for dead.
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Khulubuse Auction: Sheriff Somehow “Misses” Khulubuse’s Fifteen Other Cars!
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Remember the auction of Khulubuse Zuma’s possessions we covered on Monday? Well, it appears Khulubuse Zuma has some more cars that the Sheriff of Verulam missed. Fifteen to be exact, hidden at a house owned by one of Zuma’s associates. We’ve got the details on the hidden luxury wheels, not to mention some more of Sarah Britten’s thoughts on the matter, after the jump!
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Shocking Jozi Metro Cop Bribe Stats
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all knew that they were going to be bad, but to be told that one in four of Jozi’s drivers were asked for a bribe in 2010 is quite something. 154 440 motorists were asked to pay a bribe, but only 184 cases of corruption were reported.
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Man Fighting For His Life After Court Shooting This Morning
24 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This morning a man was shot in the neck outside the Cape High Court, and is currently fighting for his life. His attackers are unknown and immediately fled the scene. According to people who know the victim, he was attending a murder trial involving five members of the Junky Funkie Gang.
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Going Going Gone! Khulubuse Zuma’s Possessions Go Under The Hammer [PICS]
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Downed mining magnate and Presidential nephew, Khulubuse Zuma’s belongings are on auction in Verulam, KZN. We’re following Sarah Britten (@anatinus) on Twitter to get the low down on the high price of Zuma’s luxury living. All our favourite tweets and pics, courtesy of Ms. Britten, after the jump!
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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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Apple And Google Face Salary-Fixing Lawsuit
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel – among other companies – have been accused of restricting salary increases and restricting career development by agreeing not to poach each other’s staff; California District Judge Lucy Koh has found that there’s enough evidence to support trial for antitrust injury. Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm are also involved.
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Five Dead In PE Brewery Heist
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The lengths people will go to for beer these days. Seriously. A little short on cash and a little thirsty, five people decided that the cash office of the local brewery would be a fantastic target. Also, robbing a brewery also carries some serious bragging rights. They didn’t plan on security having guns though.
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Inmate Busted After Posting Facebook Bragging Video [VIDEO]
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Martez Wright is currently serving some time in a Memphis jail. But this did not stop him from keeping his Facebook profile active via an illegal cellphone. His good run ended, however, after he uploaded a video in which he boasts about smoking weed, partying, and getting the munchies. Someone alerted the authorities and he got busted. See Martez’ on-screen antics after the jump.
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Korea Has Robo-Guards Roaming Their Prisons [VIDEO]
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of scientists in South Korea has developed the world’s first completely autonomous prison guard. Far from being a glorified Roomba, the robo-guard was “designed to study human behavior, the robot is able to detect abnormal prisoner activity and report back to its controllers.” Click through for the video.
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Enraged Father Tracks Down Daughter’s Killers, More Efficient Than Local Police
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
When Vusimuzi Silwanyan’s daughter was brutally murdered last week he left it to local police to deal with the matter. After they failed to make headway in the case he took matters into his own hands, and apprehended the killers in just five days.
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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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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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Local Boys Gang-Rape Girl, Make Cellphone Video
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
This is absolutely disgusting, and I’m not quite sure how I feel about the whole thing. It happened though. A group of boys in Soweto, aged between 14 and 20, kidnapped a 17 year-old girl, and then proceeded to gang rape her. The details get a little more shocking than that.
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Physicist Uses Mathematics To Get Out Of Traffic Fine, Publishes Findings
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
UC San Diego physicist, Dmitri Krioukov got ticketed recently for running a stop sign – which isn’t unusual. What is unusual is the fact that, rather than pay the $400 fine and move on, Krioukov wrote a mathematical paper proving that the cop who ticketed him had a “perception of reality that did not properly reflect reality.”
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El Salvador Celebrates It’s First Murder-Free Day In Three Years
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You thought living in Johannesburg or Cape Town was dangerous business? Apparently not. The people of El Salvador, in Central America, have it much, much worse. With an average of 12 murders a day, peaking at 18 a day early this year, this is a much dodgier place to be texting in an alley.
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Third Bomb Threat For University Of Stellenbosch In Six Weeks
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The University of Stellenbosch has been rocked by three bomb threats in the last six weeks. The most recent incident was yesterday afternoon, with the university receiving yet another mysterious threat which required evacuation of staff and students. These cannot be making anyone in the varsity community feel very comfortable.
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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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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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