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Politics
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Nelson Mandela’s Face To Replace Animals On SA Bank Notes
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
President Jacob Zuma made a very cool announcement this weekend on the 22nd anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Towards the end of this year South Africa will get a series of new bank notes which will have Madiba’s image as the main illustration instead of the animals we’ve come to know.
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As The World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens, Check Out This Eco Radvertising Featuring The Cape Town Towers Demolition
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 102 turbine Walney Offshore wind farm located approximately 15 kilometres off Walney Island, Cumbria, in the Irish Sea in the UK, is about to start harvesting the wind. It will provide electricity for 320 000 homes and the project has cost £1 billion.
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Obama Releases Campaign Playlist, Listens To Arcade Fire
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Obama seems to be going with the “sing when you’re winning” line of thought – first his rendition of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together”, and now his 28-track long Campaign playlist has shown up on Spotify, to remind voters that he’s totally hip to the groove. Take a look to compare your tastes with the POTUS.
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Indian Politicians Caught Watching “Porn” During Parliamentary Debate
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Three Indian politicians, among them a women’s affairs minister, resigned after two of them were caught watching what was thought to be porn on a mobile phone belonging to another minister during a session of state parliament on Tuesday. They’re also members of one of the more morally conservative parties.
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Google Would Like To Buy Your Privacy Now, Please
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
See, it turns out that Google doesn’t actually know everything about your online browsing habits. But boy, they’d sure like to! Which is why they’re rolling out two services that records users’ online activities in full, in return for Amazon gift cards or – in the sightly more intense version – hard cash.
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These Are Your Road Closures For The Opening Of Parliament
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Capetonians: it’s that time of the year again when the City of Cape Town closes many of its roads for the opening of Parliament. As part of the pompous affair and fashion extravaganza, President Jacob Zuma will also deliver his all-important State of the Nation Address.
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Eastern Cape ANCYL To Ignore JuJu Suspension
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Eastern Cape branch of the ANCYL has proclaimed that they will ignore Julius Malema’s suspension from his chairmanship of the Youth League until the final mitigation of sentence can be decided upon, or at least until a pronouncement can be made at the ANC national congress in December.
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The Simpsons Join Barbie On Iran Toy Black List
06 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hot off the press in Iran this morning comes a report that the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran has added any and all toys derived from The Simpsons to a nationwide ban list, which includes Barbie dolls and assorted products.
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Zimbabwe Bans Foreign Papers
03 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Think our South African Protection of Information Bill is scary? It’s nothing on Zimbabwe’s media commission, which has announced that it will actively ban foreign newspapers and magazines henceforth.
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e.tv Fined R35 000 For Showing Gaddafi Images
03 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s only independent TV news channel has been fined R35 000 by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa for contraventions of the broadcasting code. The complaints were filed in October, for showing images of Colonel Gaddafi moments before his death. This was done at 07h30 and repeatedly until 12h00 without any warnings or advisories.
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Who’s Who In Lindiwe’s All New DA Shadow Cabinet?
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Late yesterday, the DA’s leader in Parliament, Lindiwe Mazibuko, released the names of her new DA shadow cabinet to the press, continuing the DA’s rather weird tradition of maintaining such a unit in South Africa’s rather one-sided political system. We’ve got the new cast of the DA Show in Parliament, after the jump.
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ZANews’ Take On The DA Mixed Race Poster [PIC]
01 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Controversial mixed race posters have been all the rage lately. It’s therefore not surprising that the clever people behind ZANews picked up on it and responded with their own advert. It features Jacob Zuma and Helen Zille, both naked, in a passionate embrace. Have a look – after the jump!
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Racepoint PR – The Public Relations Company Preferred By Dictators Everywhere
01 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hey dictators. Got a national reputation problem on your hands? You could invest in some good public relations, couldn’t you? Specifically, give Racepoint PR a call – they’re the agency that did such a good job of brushing up Colonel Gadhafi’s image and, more recently, shifting attention away from Rwanda’s genocide problem.
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Gauteng In Pre-Petrol Price Hike Panic?
31 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The South African Fuel Retailers Association is trying to pre-empt petrol price hike panic in Gauteng just hours before the price of go-go juice flies up a massive 34c around the country.
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Naked Ukrainian Protester Group Strikes In Davos [Mildly N5FW]
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Femen is a Ukrainian group of activists that has become popular in Europe for staging small, half-naked protests. Some of their members were arrested over the weekend after trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders held in the Swiss resort town of Davos.
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Twitter BlackOut Protest Results In Mass Tweeting
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, look, I know the successive restriction of online liberties is something we should be fighting tooth and nail, but I can’t be the only one who heard about last Saturday’s ‘Twitter Blackout,’ in protest of Twitter’s new censorship policy, and failed to care.
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The Catholic Church Openly Condemns The Obama Administration
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This past weekend, Catholic parishioners across America were read a letter written by the church leadership urging them to stand up against a new ruling by the Obama administration which would require all employers to provide healthcare plans which include contraceptive coverage.
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Intense Footage Of Australian PM Chased By Violent Mob [VIDEO]
27 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The lady in white clinging on for dear life to a security guard in this image is actually the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Riot police had to force a path for her through a crowd of angry protesters following a ceremony to mark Australia’s national day yesterday. Intense video footage of the incident after the jump.
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Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets By Country
27 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Over the past few years social media has transformed the proliferation of information, particularly mainstream news. It’s now almost more likely that you’ll first learn about breaking news on your Facebook feed or Twitter account than from a legitimate news source. That’s all about to change.
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Cosatu Is Really Unhappy With That DA Poster, Drops “White Supremacy” Slur
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cosatu has come out guns blazing at that DA Students’ Organisation poster that has raised a few eyebrows this week. Speaking in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday, Zet Luzipo, provincial secretary for Cosatu, and no stranger to speaking his mind, slammed the poster saying: “It entrenches white supremacy that we fought against during the liberation struggle.”
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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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Obama Ordered To Court To Prove US Citizenship – Again
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The “birther” movement is back in the news, trying to prove US President Barack Obama is not an American citizen by birth. He’s been ordered to court in Georgia on Thursday to hear yet another charge that he’s not who he says he is.
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Sexy DA Youth Poster Sparks Social Media Debate [PIC]
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A rather sexy poster, featuring a naked interracial couple sparked debates across social platforms yesterday. Created by the DA Student Organisation, it shows a white man embracing a black woman with the tagline: “DASO: In our future you wouldn’t look twice.”
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Anonymous Deletes CBS.com And Takes Down Universal
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hacker group, Anonymous, evidently not content with taking down three major corporations and the US Department of Justice’s websites, are continuing their MegaUpload revenge spree, having gained access to CBS.com and deleting every file on the server, while keeping Universal Music inoperative with sustained denial-of-service attacks.
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Zulu King Dubs Gays “Rotten”
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Zulu Monarch, King Goodwill Zwelethini took to the podium at yesterday’s 133rd commemoration of the Battle of Isandlwana, and addressed some of the key challenges facing South Africa, including how same sex relationships have no basis in traditional African cultures and are “wrong” and “rotten”.
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Obama Sings “Let’s Stay Together”, Not Half Bad
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Political views and campaign promises aside, Barack Obama seems like a pretty cool guy. Often he indulges not-so-serious questions, jokes with reporters and he always seems to keep a level head in just about any situation. At a recent fundraiser in Harlem he once again demonstrated his ability to keep it real.
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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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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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South Africa Might Still Get A Warship
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And guess who’s got a finger in that pie? None other than convicted fraudster, Tony Yengeni. Granted it probably won’t be a very big warship, if we can really even call it that, but it has the potential to cost even more than the four frigates we bought as part of the controversial 1999 R60 billion arms deal.
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Brazilian Police Equipped With Facial Recognition Glasses For 2014
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is sort of like Robocop! Brazilian police forces are testing out glasses fitted out with cameras linked to a central computer network that stores a database of criminal suspects’ faces, so that they’ll be able to arrest people during the 2014 World Cup without having to ask them their names.
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