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Absa, Nedbank, FNB And Investec Stop Doing Business With Auction Alliance
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Pending the outcome of investigations into claims of staff receiving kickbacks for preferential treatment, Absa, Nedbank, First National Bank and Investec have all stopped doing business with Auction Alliance. The latest development comes after news broke earlier in the week, that Auction Alliance CEO, Rael Levitt, had relinquished his post.
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Three Vets In Court Over Possession Of Rhino Poaching Drugs
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Right on the back of the news that four SANParks employees have been arrested in relation to rhino posting, comes the news that three veterinarians have appeared in court for the wrongful possession of drugs used in rhino poaching. Does this mean that something is finally being done about the poaching crisis in the country?
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Four SANParks Officials Arrested In Connection With Rhino Poaching
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s difficult to act surprised at the announcement from SANParks this morning, stating that four Kruger National Park wildlife officials were arrested yesterday in connection with rhino poaching activities. There are such large amounts of money involved with the rhino poaching syndicates, and just too many closely related coincidences, for there not to have been someone involved on the inside.
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Apple’s iOS Lets Developers Access Your Photos & Videos
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple’s iOS has been under fire for allowing third-party apps to access users’ location data and contacts without permission – and now it looks like photos and videos have been compromised too. The New York Times used a test app to prove that the security software had a giant loophole in its privacy settings.
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Schizophrenic Ex-Bulls Player To Stand Trial For Axe Murders, Assault And Rape
24 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ex-Blue Bulls flanker, Phindile Ntshongwana, has been deemed medically fit to stand trial for the alleged murder of three people (two with an axe), attempted murder of another and the kidnapping and rape of a woman. Happy Friday everyone!
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Poisoning Leaves One Amazing Race Producer Dead And Another In Critical Condition
22 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An Amazing Race producer was found dead in his hotel room in Africa following an alleged botched shakedown by local thugs. His assistant was also poisoned in the same hotel and was found in a critical condition. More after the jump…
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Church Allows Convicted Child Molester To Preach – Children Banned From Attending
22 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Convicted child molester, Darrell Gilyard, has been allowed to preach in the Christ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist church in Jacksonville, Florida. But, Gilyard, 49, is not allowed any contact with minors under the terms of his release from a three-year jail sentence he served for abusing a 15-year-old girl at another church in 2009.
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Police Brutality Following Nightclub Raid In Stellenbosch [VIDEO]
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been about four years since the police raids in Stellenbosch that had the whole Cape Town talking – you remember, right? Shotguns, riot police, pepper spray, the whole hog. Seems the police haven’t learnt – on Saturday the popular Stellenbosch night club, Terrace was raided by the police, under the guise of “breaking up a fight.” Video after the jump.
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Man Killed While In Police Custody
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A Boksburg man was killed this weekend while in police custody following the raid of a local night club. The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is investigating.
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EU Court Of Justice: Social Networks Can’t Be Forced To Filter Piracy
17 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Europe’s highest court, the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union, ruled yesterday that social networking websites cannot be forced to install filters preventing users from illegally sharing music and videos protected by copyright.
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Heartland Institute Paid Scientists To Discredit Climate Change Research
16 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A bunch of emails have been leaked from the Heartland Institute, the think tank vaguely infamous for being at once massively skeptical of climate change and funded by billionaire global warming deniers, the Koch Brothers. The emails suggest that the Institute has been paying scientists and bloggers to discredit climate change research.
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Divorced Dad Appears In Court For CT School Shooting
15 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jealousy can make you crazy. And ex-es can be infuriating. The man who was killed yesterday afternoon outside St George’s Grammar in Mowbray was shot by the ex-husband of the woman he was engaged to. While there’s still uncertainty around why he resorted to pulling out a gun, it’s not hard to surmise there was no love lost between the fiance and the former husband.
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Bronx Murder: Four Suspects To Appear In Court Today
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Four men have been apprehended and arrested over the weekend in connection with last week Tuesday’s murder of Bronx nightclub owner, Bruno Bronn. The men are due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court today.
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Newlands Kidnapping Report Is A Hoax
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Late yesterday afternoon, and once more in the early hours of this morning, the hashtag #kidnapping began trending locally on Twitter. Multiple tweets claimed that a child had been kidnapped from the leafy Cape Town suburb of Newlands, and a red VW City Golf Velocity with the registration STW048GP was identified as the getaway car. It has since been debunked as a hoax. More after the jump.
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Finally: SA And Mozambique Hold Urgent Rhino Poaching Meeting
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Monday, the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs in South Africa, Edna Molewa, met with the Minister of Tourism in Mozambique, Fernando Sumbana Junior. They met in Pretoria to discuss solutions to the rhino poaching epidemic occurring in the Kruger National Park. This is what they’ve concluded so far.
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TV Presenter Catches Out Corrupt Cops
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You may never have heard of TV celebrity and author Zanele Mbokazi. It would mean you’ve never watched SABC1’s Gospel Gold show, for which she used to be presenter, but anything’s possible. However all of that is beside the point. Because Zanele is now even more famous for something else: helping to bust some very naughty SAPS officers on Sunday.
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Explosion At Mugg & Bean, Kempton Park
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This morning there was an explosion at the Mugg & Bean at the Festival Park in Kempton Park. 10 people have been reported injured, with three of them in critical condition.
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Donovan Moodley Retrial Application Dismissed
01 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Convicted murderer, Donovan Moodley has lost his application at the South Gauteng High Court to have his conviction for murder overturned. Now the man that kidnapped and murdered 21-year old Leigh Matthews, and then tried to extort money from her father, will return to jail to serve the rest of his life sentence.
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James Murdoch’s Deleted Email
01 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s going to be harder and harder for people to believe that James Murdoch didn’t know how bad the phone and email hacking situation was at News International. New evidence has emerged showing that emails sent to James that said: “it is as bad as we feared,” were deleted days before a Scotland Yard investigation began.
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Another South African Caught Smuggling Cocaine
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Barely a month after Nolubabalo Nobanda made international headlines for trying to bring cocaine into Thailand via her dreadlocks, another South African has been caught smuggling drugs. Patience Monkei-Khame was arrested over the weekend in Malawi, after four kilograms of nose candy was found hidden in a baby pram she was pushing.
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The Real Reason Why MegaUpload Was Shut Down?
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So! The shutdown MegaUpload and charging of founders with piracy ostensibly started with a copyright scuffle between the filesharing site and the Universal Music Group. Except the shut-down was also timed to scupper MegaBox, a venture to sell artist’s work directly to consumers while letting artists keep 90 percent of earnings. Raised eyebrows all around.
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Greece Publishes Tax Dodger List
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Greeks are amongst the most notorious tax dodgers in the world. Currently, Greece has about 60 billion Euros in unpaid taxes outstanding – a figure equivalent to about a quarter of its total economy. Athens decided to release a list on Sunday that published the names of some of the 4 000 known dodgers.
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Anonymous Deny Reports Of Plans To Attack Facebook
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous have denied that they’re planning an attack on Facebook, in spite of a video claiming to speak for the group that has declared that the social network will be brought down on January 28th. This would be the second fake Anonymous threat in some months.
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Guns Blaze In Cops And Robbers Shootout At Joburg School This Morning
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Bryanston school kids and their parents may still be recovering from the drama on show this morning outside Bryanston Parallel Medium Primary. The school was the scene of a police shoot-out at around 07h20.
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German Court Rejects Samsung’s 3G Patent Lawsuit Against Apple
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, Samsung, you guys have been losing pretty much everything against Apple in the past couple of weeks. Germany’s Mannheim Regional court reached a decision on one point of the continuing lawsuit between Apple and Samsung, rejecting the claim that Apple have infringed upon Samsung’s German 3G patents.
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People Prefer Armed Guards Over Cops: Report
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new report indicates a worrying trend in security conscious South Africa: people by and large prefer relying on private security companies to keep them safe, which is bad news for our official protectors, the South African Polic Service.
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News International: We Were Hacking Email Too
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Obviously. The credibility of Rupert Murdoch’s News International has been thrown into further disarray as the media giant finally admitted in the High Court that it had also illegally been accessing emails. This follows the emergence of some 36 hacking settlements yesterday.
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Hacker Group Anonymous Takes Down Major Websites
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday the popular file-sharing site, MegaUpload was taken down by the US government. In response, hackers aligned with the global cyber-collective known as Anonymous took down at least six prominent websites, including those of the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group.
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Iraq Wants Saddam’s Ass Back
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A British man has been arrested and questioned by UK police regarding his involvement in the alleged theft of a fragment of a statue of Saddam Hussein from Iraq in 2003, more specifically its ass.
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News Corp Involved In Hacking Cover-Up
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A short while ago, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company agreed to pay damages to 36 high-profile victims of tabloid phone-hacking. On top of this, News Corp has acknowledged to victims that executives covered up the scale of the unlawful activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators.
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