An investigation into who actually owns Zumaville has revealed that the land, upon which President Jacob Zuma’s extravagant private residence is built, is land that doesn’t actually belong to him.
Zumaville upgrade: Last-minute bid to hide costs. 1time airlines have turned to the government for a bailout. Tom Cruise divorce papers leaked. Mitt Romney wins TV debate.
A new species of dinosaur has been unveiled – the Pegomastax africanus, a 200-million-year-old dinosaur – and it is the subject of a new peer-reviewed research paper in the journal ZooKeys. The fossils were discovered in South Africa (around and in Lesotho) 50 years ago.
Look, you’re all no doubt aware that I am a big fan of the view from the Safe House, but the vibe emanating from this Fresnaye home is quite something. Click through for a look.
Facebook announced today that it now has more than one billion users around the world. Although there might be a few made up accounts in that number.
The Castle Rugby Championship match between the Springboks and New Zealand takes place at Soccer City on Saturday. We’re giving away an amazing SuperFan experience for two lucky Jozi readers, and a friend each. Click through for more!
Michael Schumacher announced earlier today that he will be retiring from Formula One at the end of the current season. This will be the second time he is retiring from professional racing.
Plans have been set in motion to build a $1 billion replica of India’s Taj Mahal, in Dubai. The ambitious project is part of an even bigger development which includes replicas of several other world famous structures.
What started as a bargain may have turned into a case of near bankruptcy for a 23-year-old Swiss baker, who recently had a head-on collision with a BMW in a limited edition Ferrari 360 Spider F1 Challenge Stradale. He is now looking at having to fork out approximately R3,4 million to repair the damaged supercar.
Morocco’s government has decided that it is not going to allow the Women on Waves “abortion ship” to dock when it arrives at Moroccan shores today.
2oceansvibe’s sports columnist, Sean Wilson, debates the controversial perils of what happens when you name an unchanged Springbok team. It’s something a Bok coach hasn’t done since 2009.
Things turned really ugly on the American Idol set earlier this week when two of the judges decided to get into a bitch fight. After being called a “bitch” and a “gangster” by Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj responded by, well, turning ganster and threatening to ”knock out” Mariah Carey.
Moody’s announced today that, following the revision of the country’s foreign currency desposit ceiling, it had downgraded South Africa’s five biggest banks. This comes only days after the ratings agency downgraded SA’s government bond rating.
If you’re spending too much time on the Internet, you may soon be diagnosed with a medical condition. Psychologists are looking at including a new classification in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the de facto guide to identifying and classifying mental diseases. Could you be suffering from Internet Use Disorder?
Romney goes on offense, forcing Obama to defend record. Top cop: Officers hire guns out for crime. CEO is a catch for Pick n Pay. New BEE codes will hit equity dodgers. Gary Glitter ‘raped girl, 13, in Savile’s BBC dressing room’. Apple’s iPad Mini Reportedly Already in Production.
October is known worldwide as breast cancer awareness month, and talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres, found a novel way to get people talking about the cause. Liam Neeson, the actor who starred in Star Wars, Love Actually and The A-Team, got into a dunk tank – much to the delight of a very hysterical fan.
Casting Me… is a character-driven semi-biographical indie comedy romance inspired by Clerks. Instead of Kevin Smith, we have Quinton Lavery, whose real-life antics as a casting director have spilled over into film as we journey with the man on his quest to write and direct a film after hours and win back his sweetheart.
Comair is the first local airline operator to come out and say that it wants a promise that SAA won’t be using its latest R5 billion for domestic operations.
The first mistake this Microsoft store in the US made was to hire a rapper in order to drum up business. The second mistake they made was hiring one called Machine Gun Kelly. The results, as seen in this video, are rather chaotic.
It was only a matter of time before Nokia jumped on the versus-Apple bandwagon now that their new flagship, the Lumia 920, is all but on the shelves. Instead of launching into a drawn-out tirade concerning specs and features they focused on small aspects that could actually make all the difference.
The Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi, has come out in defence of the department’s plans to spend R203 million upgrading President Jacob Zuma’s private homestead in Nkandla.
International brand consultancy Interbrand released its rankings of the world’s biggest brands yesterday, and there are some interesting shifts to take note of. We’ve already reported on Google being ranked higher than Microsoft, but where do our other favourite brands fall in the world’s top ten?
To celebrate more and more people enjoying their flavoured mouthguards from MoGo Sport, today, on Tank Lanning’s Show on 2oceansvibe Radio, Front Row Grunt, MoGo Sports will be giving away a flavoured mouth guard set.
In a bold move that is the is the first of its kind in the country, Stellenbosch University is making its intellectual property and research findings available to companies and firms, for free.
During their set at the Global Citizen Festival on Saturday, Dave Grohl said it would be “a while” before fans got to see the Foo Fighters onstage again. He also introduced the set-closing Everlong as the “last chance to dance!” Since then Foo fans have been speculating as to what exactly was going on.
While the Apple lovers are not committing the crimes themselves, popularity of the company’s devices in New York is being blamed for the increase of crime in the city. The NYPD commissioner has said that crime in New York City has significantly risen due to the theft of Apple products.
Declare national crisis in education – Jansen. R5bn lifeline for SAA. AB: We let our country down. Gold Fields tells miners to pack and go. Department to probe Nkandla documents leak. Greece to spend almost €100m on building F1 track.
It’s generally accepted that octopi are very intelligent, clever creatures however the depths of their cunning has never truly been measured, until now. An underwater camera, in South Africa’s False Bay, captured footage of one of the molluscs stealing an entire bait cannister – that was attacehed with three cable ties – while keeping a shark at bay!
Things look like they are heating up between some of the guys, and there is also a budding new romance on the brew.
Microsoft now resides at position number three on the list of most valuable technology businesses in the world. Only Apple tops Google, but by quite a lot.