Winter is now pretty much in full swing and snow has begun to fall in many provinces as temperatures keep dropping across the country. As beautiful as the snowy icing may to look some, the harsh conditions have caused widespread havoc, particularly on national roads, and claimed at least five lives to date.
One of the longest running commercial interweb relationships has ended. Microsoft and NBC have finalised their online divorce and will both go at it alone.
The clampdown on drunken driving is in full swing, and the provincial traffic department is currently in negotiations with the police to initiate on-the-spot blood testing at roadblocks. This will provide solid and immediate evidence for prosecution.
The controversial, far-right English Defence League marched on Saturday through the streets of Bristol against the “islamification” of the city. Basically, the group believes that there are too many Muslim’s in Britain and they should rather move somewhere else.
Surfer bitten in half. Egyptians call Hillary ‘Monica.’ Zuma’s ex becomes head of AU, Elton talks unprotected sex and drugs. Tour de France sabotaged and more!
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Big Korn Bites are yet to respond to the public outcry at the massive reduction in seasoning on their maize snack chips. Public protest include a video, watched thousands of times.
It has just been reported on Twitter, that the Knysna Marathon has been cancelled, due to unsafe conditions. The Knysna Marathon Club released this statement on their website: Due to unsafe conditions the 2012 Pick n Pay Cape Times Knysna Forest Marathon have been cancelled. Your safety is our first concern. We had a long […]
The debate over whether Independent Newspapers took a money-received “discount” from Auction Alliance as part of a property auction last year left the media as quickly as it entered it.
The BBC has conducted an investigation into marketers’ obsession with ‘Likes’ and how this is impacted by fake user accounts and advertising on Facebook. An interesting read for all marketers.
When jobseeker Vanessa Hojda accidentally attached a photo of Nicolas Cage grinning manically (instead of her CV) along with a job application, she thought she was screwed. But after posting a screenshot of the incident onto her Tumblr account, her story and image quickly went viral. Two companies have since offered her a job via her Facebook page, she’s been interviewed by The Washington Post, and even appeared in a photoshoot for the Toronto Star!
According to a recent report, social media sites, including Facebook, monitor users’ chats and scan for criminal activity. The invasive measures are intended to “ensure the safety of public” and authorities are notified if any suspicious activity is detected.
Rescue workers at the scene of a horrific accident involving a train and a truck in Mpumalanga are having a hard time determining the extent of the damages. Officials say that identifying bodies is proving difficult as many have been torn up by the impact, with some being thrown as far as 200m.
Coming up on the Sox And The City show today, DJ Sox interviews Manchester United goalkeeper, Anders Lindegaard! Be sure to tune in to Sox And The City from 15h00-17h00!
The DEA have discovered two tunnels constructed for smuggling drugs into the US. The one tunnel was incomplete, but the other had recently completed and was thought to be used to get meth into Arizona from Mexico.
WikiLeaks just won an important legal battle which will force Iceland’s Visa and MasterCard partner to resume processing donations to the organisation. This comes after transactions headed for the secret-sharing site were blocked in 2010.
For months now we’ve all been hearing that “die tokoloshe gaan jou vang-elang-elang as jy hardloop in die gang-elang-elang”. Finally the day is now upon us where we can see what the music video look like for Jack Parow and Gazelle’s radio hit, “Hosh Tokolosh”. But is it any good?
A new investigation reveals that there have been some serious coverups at Pelindiba, South Africa’s largest nuclear research facility. This is a little worrying, because behind the walls of that facility lies 600kg of weapons-grade uranium, enough to make 20 very loud bangs.
BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion, has had a terrible past quarter. The smartphone manufacturer is now literally hemorrhaging money and sales figures.
Buyer of $120 million ‘The Scream’ revealed. Armstrong has a friend in congress. SA government PR disaster. Tom Cruise sues tabloid. Did London billionaire lie dead for a week?
Momentum regarding the poor seasoning of Big Korn Bites has picked up massively this week. Twitter was abuzz yesterday with a unanimous outcry against the once favourite SA corn chip snack. Watch this video for more.
A Jozi-based businessman, Lew Campbell, has just landed himself a great deal. Today he bought the Tiffindell Ski Resort at an absolute auction, and he hopes to have it running again by 2013.
2oceansvibe’s bi-weekly sports columnist, Sean Wilson, considers why looking at Mark Boucher’s international career is an act of engaging in almost all of South Africa’s modern cricket history.
Capetonians were extremely pleased with the news that Bloc Party are to be headlining Rocking the Daisies this year, but with that, comes today’s announcement that the four-piece act will headline a brand new festival in Jozi called In The City.
Independent News and Media, the country’s largest newspaper group, may be up for sale. Of course, the first question that gets raised when these kind of things happen, which they don’t really, is are there politically connected buyers lining up to bid for the group?
In less than a week, Nelson Mandela will celebrate his 94th birthday! Check out this video, featuring South African expats working and living in South Korea, containing an awesome birthday messages for Madiba.
Facebook may in the future be doing for your banking what it’s done for your online privacy in general. Who doesn’t want to be able to pay their bills while at the same time looking at photos of their friends at that braai that got a little out of hand?
Over the past few weeks we’ve brought you several reports regarding the increasingly worrisome LIBOR scandal. The investigation into interest rate-rigging debacle is quickly snowballing and analysts have now begun wondering if “16 of the world’s largest banks have perpetrated the biggest fraud in history.”
When quizzed about the name of their last CD, Coldplay only said it was a “concept album” and that the title referred to a boy and a girl named Mylo and Xyloto. Turns out it is actually also the name of a new comic book series based on the album. It will be launched at Comic-Con this weekend and was created by The Simpsons writer Matt Groening’s Bongo Comics Group.
I took a trip out to a vineyard that is being lovingly restored by a winemaker bent on making authentic, great South African wines. It lifted my spirits, it made wine worth writing about.