The provincial council of the ANC in the Western Cape are again pointing fingers at the DA, this time for not making use of its full capital budget. This is the same issue raised last year by the ANC, when the Western Cape only spent 75% of its budget.
Google has launched a text message-based version of its email service targeted at users in Africa. So far, the service has been made available in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.
Mad Men dominates Emmy noms. Syria regime all but gone. Microsoft posts worst quarter ever. Harry’s new girl. Nadal out of Olympics, Cruise’s Scientology princess and more!
Hot off the press from Sky News. Multiple agencies report 12 people have died, despite a few conflicting reports that 14 people were killed. Click headline for full story (so far)..
Yesterday reports surfaced that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had been given the title of Marshal – the country’s highest military rank. And how did the troops respond? Turns out they were so ecstatic that spontaneous dancing broke out in the streets!
2oceansvibe’s bi-weekly sports columnist, Sean Wilson, considers what we have been able to glean from a totally new format of Super Rugby – the league phase.
Fanboys always claim that Apple is basically giving us technology from the future. And if these leaked images are anything to go by, they might not be too far off. The photos show that while the iPad was only officially released in 2010, the tablet was already knocking around Apple HQ as long ago as 2002!
As part of the run up to the JAG Invitational celebrity golf tournament, Nick Farr-Jones and Colin Charvis will be joining Ian F and Spike live on the The Ian F Show tomorrow morning. They’ll discuss everything from golf to rugby, and anything Ian and Spike can throw at them. The Investec JAG Invitational celebrity golf tournament, now in its second […]
Late last month, a group of musicians stood accused of stealing a MacBook Pro in the Cape Town vicinity. We decided to get them into the 2oceansVibe Radio studio in Cape Town, and on air, to give their side of the story.
We received this awesome list of Autumn/Winter 2012 specials for Cape Town and Winelands restaurants from a 2oceansviber and feel you should enjoy it too! It is a MASSIVE list of KILLER restaurant specials and contact details!
Living Endangered is a specific range of lifestyle merchandise under the banner of The Last Word, and a percentage of each purchase goes to the Wilderness Foundation.
For most 15-year olds, the last thing they want to do after school is head to a lab and work on their biology. Jack Andraka however, is not most 15-year olds and after school he heads over to Johns Hopkins University where he’s working on a test for cancer that is leaps and bounds ahead of what’s ahead now.
With Nelson Mandela Boulevard, Christiaan Barnard Street and Helen Suzman, it’s easy to get confused in Cape Town. More street name changes are currently in the works for the mother city, with a list of 24 proposed changes submitted to Mayor Patricia De Lille.
In Brazil, the Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison has taken a new approach in its attempts to produce green energy – they’re harnessing the pedal work of their inmates.
Archaeologists, working in Florence, are convinced that they have uncovered the remains of the woman believed to have posed for Leonardo Da Vinci’s famed Mona Lisa portrait.
Just in case you thought that two weekends with identical lineups wasn’t enough for the avid music fan, Coachella has something else up their sleeve. Get ready to set sail on the SS Coachella, heading into the Caribbean twice this December.
Tom Cruise reunites with Suri. Syrian president’s brother-in-law killed. London airport staff threaten Olympic strike. Inside the Murdoch’s ‘warzone’ home and more!
The 400-metre world record holder, Michael Johnson, says he believes disabled athletes who use prosthetic limbs should NOT be allowed to compete in able-bodied races. This after news broke of Oscar Pistorius’ qualification for this year’s Olympics. Johnson argues that as it has not been disproved whether or not it provides such athletes with an unfair advantage.
The latest cover of Marie Claire in SA has blown up in a huge way online, making headlines on major news sites and aggregators like The Huffington Post, Jezebel and even the New York Daily News. What’s all the fuss about? Kate Middleton on the front cover.
Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple. He’s also considered one of the reasons you might be using a personal computer right now. Steve took a photo of the contents of his backpack; click through to see how he rolls.
Daniel Radcliffe stars in The Woman in Black, his follow-up to the beloved Harry Potter series, which shaped his career. Now the young British actor has the challenge of overcoming Harry Potter in the same way that Sean Connery had to shake his James Bond persona. To start the disassociation, Radcliffe has chosen The Woman in Black, an adaptation of Susan Hill’s popular […]
A new study suggests that not enough exercise is causing as many deaths as smoking across the world. This is especially chilling news for smokers who do not excercise, as they are expected to drop dead at any moment.
DHL is giving away two tickets to one lucky 2oceansViber to go to the Manchester United Pre-Season Tour match against Ajax Cape Town at Cape Town Stadium this Saturday. Click through to see how you can win!
The recent sale of Microsoft’s shares in MSNBC indicated a price of $12 per unique reader. This is consistent with the value given to Huffington Post when they sold (at slightly more – $12.60 per unique reader).
Today is Madiba day, Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday, and to honour the great man Prezence Digital put together an amazing video tribute exploring how things might have been different had today’s social media been around back in the day. Click through for the awesome video and a few words from its creators.
It is with great joy that De Grendel Wines can now announce the launch of the De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc in more than 160 Waitrose outlets around the UK. The De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc 2011 is drinking extremely well now, showing amazing freshness with loads of tropical and passion fruit flavours just exploding on the palate.
If there is one typo you never, ever want to make, it’s typing Nelson Mandela’s name incorrectly. On his birthday. What makes this more than astounding, is that the production of a banner like that typically goes from copywriter, to designer, to management sign-off, to campaign management, and then it would go live. And not a single […]
With the London Olympics a mere ten days away, this is a bit of an embarrassment for Boris Johnson to admit. With the decision to outsource security of the games to private security firm G4S, their last-minute withdrawal has left politicians with no choice but to call up members of the military. Many have just returned from deployment in Afghanistan.
A mourning ritual that is rarely seen, and even more rarely captured on camera, will raise further questions about whether dolphins understand the concept of death.
As we all take time out to honour a man who is surely one of the most inspiring leaders the world has ever known, Nando’s shares their appreciation of Madiba.