So far, more than one million people have watched the Cape Town-made 3D animation film “Adventures in Zambezia”. It was released internationally 13 weeks ago, and will screen in Cape Town for the first time this week.
This morning, we reported on a very tragic accident that happened over the weekend in Hout Bay. A charter boat (The Maroshga) – carrying 39 people – capsised near Duiker Island around 15h00 on Saturday.
Prisons should not be fun, but they should be nothing like what we have. A slap in the face to basic human rights, a cesspool of disease, abuse and mismanagement. Reading a government report on our prisons, the notion of rehabilitation becomes the biggest joke since a chicken stepped off a curb.
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier. Family mourns hero of Hout Bay tragedy. Ex-cyclist: Doping done ‘so I could be a good teammate for Lance Armstrong’. Buffett picks up a gem in SA. Anonymous distances itself from WikiLeaks. Pippa turns down showbiz career for Kate.
Classic rock legends, The Rolling Stones, have just released their first new single in almost a decade, and it’s awesome. Click through and enjoy.
Ironically, a few days after the Film and Publication Appeal Tribunal set aside the “16N” classification of Brett Murray’s controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma: The Spear, a large penis has appeared behind Zuma on The Star’s front page.
Julius Caesar, the most prominent and famous of all the Roman rulers was stabbed on the 15th of March, 44BC – known as the Ides of March. We know this thanks to the many classical texts detailing the event. For the first time, archaeologists suspect they may have found physical evidence.
The Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and the Black Keys have collaborated on a track for RZA’s upcoming film ‘Man with the Iron Fists’ – a Kung Fu film that he is directing, starring and co-writing (alongside Hostel’s Eli Roth) which opens November 2.
I’ll be honest. The only way I’ve ever been able to solve one of these babies was to pull off all the stickers and paste all the colours back together on each side.
Well this is embarrassing, Robert Kiyosaki has filed for corporate bankruptcy after being ordered to pay out almost $24 million following a US court ruling.
Today on the 2oceansvibe Radio Premier Show, you’ve got the chance to win one of two awesome music and goodies hampers in aid of awareness for Breast Cancer Awareness month. Click through for your chance to get involved!
“The Zuma family will continue to pay for upgrades in Nkandla which are not linked to state security”, the Presidency said yesterday.
Yesterday, about 400 miners at the Nkaneng informal settlement in Photsaneng near Rustenburg resulted to violence in order to voice their frustrations. In the process, a man was burned to death, and another was shot dead. Several security guards were also assualted by strikers.
Motlanthe book launch fires off ANC leadership race. Armstrong unfazed by doping maelstorm. Spear move sets ‘crucial precedent’. France’s Hollande promises pupils ‘no more homework’. Zuma calls summit in bid to end strike wave.
Yesterday, a metro police officer was gunned down in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Mpumelelo Xakekile was shot by two men at the intersection of Mew Way and Lansdowne Road while issuing a fine to minibus taxi driver.
While you won’t be directly behind the beach, you will still enjoy numerous braai opportunities that would be within enviable distance for the general public.
Sepp Blatter is no-one’s favourite guy, but his Goal project – started in 1999 – has funded 600 projects in 199 member associations. Artificial pitches, association HQ’s, training centres have all been built totally on Fifa’s dime. How many projects have we got funded? Zero.
Following the press junket for their new movie, “Seven Psychopaths,” Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell and Sam Rockwell sat down with website Screen Junkies. They spoke a little of the new film, but mostly gave us some great insight into redneck culture.
An American ad agency, together with the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, have thrown down the gauntlet to the giants of the soft drink industry with a controversial new three-and-a-half minute video that looks at the health risks of the overconsumption of sugary, carbonated drinks.
1time CEO Blacky Komani recently said that his airline owed Acsa as much as R130 million. As part of cost cutting measures, the company will now retrench 15% of its workforce.
Fatty Boom Boom is a track on the second Die Antwoord album, Ten$Ion. It is also the third song from the CD that has been made into a music video.
Paying off student loans is never easy, even more so when decent-paying jobs are few and far between. Which is exactly what drove two British students to turn their faces into marketing and advertising real estate.
It would be safe to deduce that Prince Harry’s adventures in Las Vegas and the happy snaps to go with it would have given the city of sin some good publicity. Exactly how much though? The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority crunched some numbers and have come up with a number.
Just yesterday we reported on the fact that Apple Maps had exposed a Taiwanese military facility, now, using information contained in a Navy SEAL’s book, someone found a satellite image on Bing depicting what is surely the training facility used for the assault on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.
Appeal tribunal declassifies The Spear. Armstrong a doping ringleader. Malema throws his toys out over Madonsela’s report. Turkey forces Syrian passenger plane to land in Turkey. Tom Cruise Spanked By Drag Queen At Matt Damon Bash.
A Russian court today ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich should be freed because guards threw her out of Moscow’s main cathedral before she could even remove her guitar from its case to play in protest of Vladimir Putin.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation, originally Get the Gringo, stars Mel Gibson in what has been described as an unofficial sequel to Payback. Love or hate the man, he’s still got loads of moxie and star power. He may be a washed up celebrity in real-life, but Gibson’s still a live-wire on screen and […]
About 50 000 demonstrators defied a ban on protests yesterday in Greece to voice their displeasure with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She is currently in the country to meet with Greek leaders who are searching for a new package of budget cuts. They need this in order to secure bail-out funds – largely underwritten by the German taxpayer.
Following Trevor Noah’s spot on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno earlier this year, another South African has appeared as a guest on the popular American talkshow. Yesterday Oscar Pistorius sat down for an interview and spoke to Leno about his gold medal-winning experience at the 2012 Paralympics.
How would you get the rather hard to get hold of Tom Hanks on to your podcast? Money? Women? Wine? A song perhaps? Nope, the correct answer is a 1934 Smith Corona typewriter.