The textbook saga in Limpopo has been dragging on for ages, and local politicians have seen this as a fantastic opportunity to make themselves look good. Well, the Democratic Alliance, at least. Some Limpopo schools are still without textbooks, in spite of government intervention and a court order from the North Gauteng High Court.
Whatever Dreamworks can do, Pixar can do better. It’s been a game of ping-pong for these major animation studios, who seem to be constantly trying to out-animate each other. In their latest battle, Brave vs. How to Train Your Dragon, it seems that Dreamworks may have just clinched it from Pixar, whose work has been slightly less than perfect of late.
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld loves being honest and telling people exactly how he feels. He’s done it rather emphatically again while discussing the Middleton sisters’ styles. Kate is a romantic beauty, but Pippa should only show her back.
Two 2oceansvibe brand partners, PUMA and MINI have gotten together to play ball. Working together for the greater good of humankind is the basic ethos of the 2oceansvibe circle of trust, my friends.
Nearly all of China’s 396 Olympians qualified for the Games under the patronage of the country’s monolithic Soviet-style sports system. Most are handpicked at an early age – as young as four – by scouts, and attend special schools to train in sports assumed to match physical attributes.
Hugh Herr lost both his legs after a climbing expedition when he was a teenager. However, that has not stopped this inspirational guy in pursuing his passion in life: mountain climbing. His latest adventure involved scaling a 61 meter cliff, with one of his prosthetic legs even falling off in the process, for the TV show Who Says I Can’t? He was joined by the show host, leg amputee Jothy Rosenberg, who lost his limb to cancer aged 16.
Paul McCartney, one of the last remaining Beatles, is pretty much as big as it gets when it comes to famous musicians. And accordingly, he can demand pretty much whatever he wants for stadium gigs. Surprising then, that he only earned a single pound for his stellar performance at the extravagant Olympic Opening Ceremony.
A new study commissioned by inMobi, an industry research group, has revealed that a massive 70% of South Africans are unhappy with their cellphone providers. It’s not all about the prices either.
South African legal history was made in the Durban High Court yesterday when Judge Esther Steyn agreed to allow the service of a legal notice on a man being sued to be posted on his Facebook page.
There simply is no stopping Cell C CEO, Alan Knott-Craig. First he dropped prepaid prices to 99c. Then he slashed contract prices by 50%. And this morning he announced that all standard data packages on Cell C’s network will be lowered to 15c/MB – applicable to both in bundle and out of bundle options!
Yesterday, local boy Chad le Clos did what countless other swimmers have only dreamt of, he beat Michael Phelps in the 200m Men’s Butterfly final. As glorious as the moment was, for him and the whole of South Africa, it was his father, Bert, who stole the show in a post-race interview.
Another gold for SA. Phelps breaks Olympic medal record. Badminton players play to lose. Gareth cleared of ‘bitch’ charge. Murdoch bakcs Johnson for PM. First look at Michael Douglas as Liberace.
The Olympics haven’t even been running for a week and already a second athlete has been expelled from the games following a racist tweet. This time the guilty party was Michel Morganella, a Swiss football player, and his Twitter faux pas wasn’t nearly as tame as Voula Papachristou’s last week.
It seems we are on to a good thing with these little wine trip columns. So here is another one. It’s in a similar area to the last one, but just a touch further down the road. This week I’ll be giving you a guide to the Hemel en Aarde Valley.
The world’s second most populous country has had more than half of its territory left in darkness after a massive failure by three of its major power grids, one failing for the second time in as many days.
The controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in its current form, may soon become a thing of the past. A company is busy guarding some rather interesting patents that promise to pave the way for safe fracking.
While we’ve pretty much come to expect Apple to offend at least one group of people – normally BlackBerry or Windows users – in their adverts, poking fun at the people actually BUYING your products is perhaps going a bit too far. Their latest three commercials, flighted during the Olympic coverage on Friday in America, feature an Apple Store employee (a ‘genius’) who has to help idiotic Mac users make videos and other simple tasks. Can you guess where this is going?
The Mini-Cooper sized Curiosity Rover is on target to land on the surface of Mars at 07h31 am on August 6th. This presents the most advanced mission to Mars in the history of space exploration. William Shatner and Will Wheaton have contributed their voices to videos explaining the mission.
Michael O’Leary of Ryanair – the world’s most profitable airline – says that Ryanair does three things well, no more, no less: “We arrive and leave on time, we give good fares [read: competitive], we do not lose your bags”. It’s a winning formula!
With all the bad (and some good) press the Olympics, it’s great to see videos like this one surfacing. Meet Rachel Onasanwo, who volunteered to help herd fans into the Olympic stadium on Friday. Her dry humour shows a fantasticly sarcastic, yet oddly sincere appreciation for the Games that you simply have to see.
After fighting to a semi-final draw with Britta Heidemann, Shin A Lam was on the brink of progressing to the gold medal round with one second left on the clock in extra time. If the match ended in a draw the latter would have moved on, instead the timing equipment was never activated and the final second dragged on, allowing Heidemann to score the final, winning hit. Clearly upset and convinced she was cheated, Shin A Lam refused to leave the piste, for 45 minutes.
This August The Westcliff is celebrating the exceptional wines and winemakers of South Africa with a series of Evenings of Fine Wine. They will take place every Friday evening in La Belle restaurant at 18h30. The Westcliff has invited some very well-established estates, as well as some newer, more cutting-edge domains, to host their guests […]
The Department of Environmental Affairs has decided to withdraw its proposed changes to South Africa’s weather service legislation after they came to the realisation that they were being silly, but mainly because they were unconstitutional.
US cries foul over Chinese swimmer. iPhone 5 date set. Batman killer might get death. They’re making Hangover 3.
Click play to watch the video of the Mercedes Benz Cape Town Fashion Week made for popyacollar.co.za! Includes exclusive footage and interviews with designers, models and celebrities! Filmed, produced and edited by 2ov TV.
Generally speaking, some of the more prominent Facebook investors have lost a collective $19,2 billion since Facebook’s public listing. Zuckerberg has fared the worst though: he’s lost $7,5 billion.
When billionaire heiress Tamara Ecclestone received an unexpected phone call from her father summoning her to his office she knew something was up, and immediately suspected the worst. Panicked, she rushed to his office and found her mother there as well. Her father warned her that what she was about to see was “going to upset [her]” and then hit play on his laptop.
What does Kate Moss, Nic Cage, The Queen, Joanna Lumley, Greg Kinnear, Stevie Wonder, Joan Collins and Helen Zille have in common? They’ve all shopped at or worn jewelry from SA’s very own Uwe Koetter jewellers, that’s what! I was lucky enough to attend the launch of their new showroom in the Cape Quarter and you won’t believe it, […]
The last time we discussed Nando’s Souperstars on 2oceansVibe, the campaign had only just begun. Since then, more than 800 South Africans have signed up to join the cause!
Another debit order scam has been recognised after many bank account users, across all banks, have noticed that amounts of money have been disappearing from their accounts in the last few weeks. The offending company is a fictitious holiday company called “SA Holidays,” deducting up to R399 per month from innocent citizens.