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Morning Headlines
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Wednesday Morning Spice
27 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Spice Girls: The Musical – The Spice Girls are set to make £5MILLION each off the back of their new West End show. Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown and Geri Halliwell were reunited in London yesterday for the launch of musical Viva Forever! [mirror] ABSA Bank Warns Of Profit Slump – ABSA issued […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
26 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Venus Williams Out After Wimbledon First Round – Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams says she has no thoughts of retiring, despite her shock Wimbledon first-round defeat by Elena Vesnina. The 32-year-old American, who suffers from Sjogren’s Syndrome, was beaten 6-1 6-3 by the Russian world number 79. [bbc] London Olympics To Be Most Over-Budget Games Since Atlanta […]
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Monday Morning Spice
25 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
[photo:source] Rolling Stones Gather To Plot 50th Anniversary Concert – The Rolling Stones are strongly considering at least one live concert later this year to mark their 50th anniversary, Stones insiders tell Rolling Stone. Sources add that the band is still considering a tour in 2013. “I’d like to get a couple of shows down and […]
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Friday Morning Spice
22 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Second Big Mine Shut In Platinum Slowdown – Royal Bafokeng Platinum and Aquarius Platinum yesterday announced huge curtailments of their platinum operations as the sector battles high costs, labour unrest, stagnant prices and an oversupplied market. [businessday] Velvet Sky Liquidated – The troubled Velvet Sky airline, which owes R100-million to creditors, has been liquidated by the Pietermaritzburg High […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
21 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
France Accuse David Cameron Of Being Drunk – It was never going to do much for cross-Channel relations. But David Cameron’s suggestion that wealthy Frenchmen should escape their country’s high taxes by moving to Britain has left Paris rather, well, hopping mad. French politicians have responded by criticising Britain’s health and education system and accusing the […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
20 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis Have Officially Split – After months of speculation Johnny Depp’s spokeswoman has confirmed that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star and his longtime girlfriend,Vanessa Paradis, have officially split up. [abcnews] SA Fans Outraged At Lady Gaga Online Ticket Sales Fiasco – AFTER a disastrous first day of online bookings for US pop star Lady […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
19 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Microsoft Unveils iPad ‘Challenger’ – Software giant Microsoft has joined its rival Apple in the world of touchscreen tablets with the launch of the Surface. The Surface looks similar to the iPad – launched in 2010 – but has a more cinematic screen ratio. Yawn. [skynews] Telkom’s future On Line With ANC Set To Debate Delisting, Renationalising […]
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Monday Morning Spice
18 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Radiohead Drum Technician Killed In Stage Collapse – Investigators combed through the wreckage of a Toronto stage yesterday to determine what caused the structure to come crashing down ahead of a Radiohead concert, killing the band’s drum technician and injuring three other crew members. [todayonline] Webb Simpson Wins US Open – Simpson shoots a final round of […]
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Friday Morning Spice
15 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
SMS From Rebekah Brooks To David Cameron: ‘We’re In This Together’ – Ex-News International executive Rebekah Brooks told the PM “professionally we’re definitely in this together”, after the Sun paper switched loyalty to his party, the Leveson Inquiry heard. Not ideal. [bbc] Vodacom MD Resigns After Just Nine Months On The Job – Vodacom SA’s managing […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
13 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Mvelaphanda Makes Offer For Avusa – In A deal worth about R3bn, Mvelaphanda, the listed black-owned investment group, has made a bid to acquire the entire share capital of Avusa , the media company, at a premium of R24 a share. [businessday] Russia Is Sending Attack Helicopters To Syria – Hillary Clinton has warned that Russia […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
12 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
iOS6: The Top 10 New Features – When it arrives on handsets and tablets this fall, iOS 6 won’t just be a simple operating system update — it will be Apple’s interpretation of exactly how a modern mobile OS should perform. And at Apple’s WWDC keynote Monday, the company highlighted 10 key areas of improvement […]
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Monday Morning Spice
11 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
MTN Iran’s ‘Dirty Tricks’ Campaign – New evidence shows MTN’s dirty-tricks campaign went to extreme lengths to make sure it clinched Iran’s second cellular licence. This included running a $200000 slush fund to bribe Iranian intelligence officials to spy on their own government. [bizlive] French Open Final Postponed – Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic were locked in […]
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Friday Morning Spice
08 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
US Magazine Confirms Gisele Bundchen Is Pregnant – Ever since rumours started circulating that Gisele Bündchen is carrying her second child, it’s been a guessing game of ‘Baby or Bagel’ i.e. is she packing a bump, or has she just eaten a carbohydrate based snack-food item more befitting a ‘civilian’. Well, it seems the former […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
07 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Bheki Cele Fired– President Jacob Zuma has apparently fired suspended police commissioner General Bheki Cele. Zuma’s spokesperson Mac Maharaj would on Tuesday say only that the president would make his decision about Cele public when he was “ready” to do so. [news24] Massive Medical Breakthrough: Babies Could Be Tested For 3,500 Genetic Faults – Scientists could soon be […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
06 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Costner And Baldwin Go Head To Head In Court – A courtroom battle between actors Kevin Costner and Stephen Baldwin is under way over a £34m deal to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. [yahoo] Mark Keohane Never Was The Olympic Spokesperson – Following sports writer Mark Keohane’s resignation amid a sex and cocaine […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
05 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook Stock Falls To New Low – Facebook’s stock continued its decline Monday, as the share price sank to its lowest point following its initial public offering, a decline of more than 30%. Facebook (FB), the social media brainchild of co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, dipped to $26.44 during Monday’s trading. [money] Zuckerberg Sued For […]
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Monday Morning Spice
04 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
MTN Exec Admits Bribe – A senior former MTN Group executive has admitted to bribing South Africa’s former ambassador to Iran to thank him for assisting the mobile giant. [fin24] SABC Refuses To Screen Nando’s Ad [VIDEO] – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has silenced fast-food giant Nando’s latest ad campaign by refusing to […]
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Friday Morning Spice
01 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
FAA Clears Virgin Galactic Spaceship For Test Flights – The US Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Virgins’ SpaceShipTwo to begin rocket-powered suborbital test flights, the company says. SpaceShipTwo manufacturer Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, received a one-year experimental launch permit on May 23 for test flights beyond the atmosphere, FAA spokesman Hank Price said. We’re […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
31 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
[Above video is a news report – it is not footage of the attack] Miami ‘Zombie Cannibal’ Video Shows Attack Lasted 18 Minutes – A newly released surveillance video from atop a Miami Herald parking garage shows the entire violent attack Saturday during which a naked man chewed off most of a homeless victim’s face. You […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
30 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook Shares Slip Below $30 In ‘Worst IPO In Financial History’ – Facebook’s stock price fell almost 10% on Tuesday leading analysts to declare its initial public offering (IPO) last Friday as one of the worst in financial history. The social network’s Nasdaq trading price fell as low as $28.65, down from $38 or more than 20% […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
29 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
227 Rhinos Killed By Poachers So Far This Year – South Africa has lost 227 rhinos to illegal hunting activities since the beginning of the year, the department of environmental affairs says. The latest statistics indicate the Kruger National Park has lost 137 rhinos, which accounts for more than half of the total rhino killings that have […]
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Monday Morning Spice
28 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Lady Gaga Labeled A ‘Kafir’ – Lady Gaga’s June 3 concert in Jakarta has been canceled following heightening protests and threats of violence. She has been labeled a ‘kafir,’ which is the arabic word from which South Africa’s own ‘K’ word with two fs was derived (wikipedia). A group called the Islamic Defenders Front said that […]
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Friday Morning Spice
25 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2oceansvibe Radio Launches JHB Melrose Arch Studio – Mini Roadsters,Jack Parow, JR, Karabo, Danny K, Ard Mathews buckets of Corona, Jack, Bos, De Grendel wine, and the internet converged to deliver a stark and beautiful picture of what radio will look like in the near future. Over 350 guests thronged the passageways of the Galleria […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
24 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Image: EWN Why I Did It: Zuma Vandal Explains – One of the men accused of vandalising a painting depicting President Jacob Zuma said he thought a white person should remove the painting, as it was created by a white person and the gallery was owned by a white person. [News24] Hewlett-Packard Cuts 27K Jobs […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
23 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook Stock Downward Spiral Continues With Further 11% Drop – Facebook shares fell 11% on Monday, the company’s second day as a publicly traded company, due to what many analysts and investors blamed on overly aggressive pricing by Facebook’s underwriters. [bizworld] Inside Facebook’s Fumbled Offering – Less than three days before Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
22 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook Stocks Plummet As Investors Scramble To Sell Shares – More than $10bn (£6.3bn) was wiped off Facebook’s value on its first full day as a public company, rattling investors and provoking criticism of the social network’s banking advisers. [telegraph] Watch The SpaceX Launch LIVE – After aborting their first attempt at the last possible second on […]
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Monday Morning Spice
21 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Malema Is Going Down – Millions in questionable payments have been revealed in a damning PricewaterhouseCoopers audit into Malema’s financial affairs. The audit puts Malema at the centre of a web of dubious payments and dodgy tenders that were rigged to go to his friends’ companies, in return for what appear to be generous kickbacks paid into […]
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Friday Morning Spice
18 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
ANC Angry Over Zuma ‘Penis Painting’ – South Africa’s ruling ANC has demanded the removal of a painting from an exhibition by one of the nation’s best-known artists that it said ridiculed the party and the president. [guardian] The Pirate Bay Hit By Hack Attack – File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
17 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
[image source] Prepaid Price War Erupts In SA – A price war has broken out in South Africa’s mobile industry. Within minutes of each other on Wednesday, Cell C and Vodacom both announced they were slashing the cost of prepaid call tariffs to 99c per minute. Spicy. [mail&guardian] Michael Caine Trapped In Dressing Room Overnight […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
16 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Media Merger Gets The Nod – A merger between Media24, the Paarl Media Group and the Natal Witness has been conditionally approved by the competition tribunal. [mail&guardian] General Motors Says Facebook Ads Don’t Pay Off – General Motors Co. GM -0.97% plans to stop advertising with Facebook Inc. after deciding that paid ads on the site have […]
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