Two weeks ago Precious Msibi was forced by her HR manager of all people to strip naked in front of colleagues, including males – during Woman’s Month! The strip was done to “prove that she was female”. After assurances by the police that the guy would be arrested, she claims that nothing has been done so far.
Researchers in Gothenburg, Sweden, met this week to launch a new “meat without slaughter” initiative – with plans on being able to release bio-sausages in the next six months. Bio-sausages made from exotic animal cells, too, because vat-grown tiger meat isn’t any less ethical than vat-grown bacon.
Black Farmers Selling Farms Back To Previous White Owners – South Africa’s minister of land reform says black farmers have resold nearly 30 percent of the white farmland bought for them by the government – often back to the previous white owners. Minister Gugile Nkwinti announced the startling indicator of failure at Wednesday’s launch of a […]
Behold the inspirational power of a double dip recession! Except this is actually awesome. This guy has built a luxury home in an American dumpster complete with granite counters, a toilet and hardwood floors. The ‘home’ will make its debut at the 2011 San Francisco Fringe Festival, which runs September 7-18.
In what must have seemed like a scene straight from a movie, hundreds of Orthodox Greek mourners were mistakenly served kourabiedes, a traditional Greek biscuit, at a funeral reception. Shortly after tasting the biscuits, the guests started acting incredibly strangely and the funeral bureau officers called the police.
London Boulevard is the sort of movie you’d expect from a director like Guy Ritchie. It feels like it was written with Ritchie in mind – given the setting, characters and dialogue. The problem is… the element of romance and the overall lack of action. Guy Ritchie is more about intense, slick and violent British […]
A meeting was held by Britain’s National Security Council yesterday at 10 Downing Street. But as a certain minister left the meeting, he carried documents containing very sensitive information regarding Afghan president Hamid Karzai in a very careless way and the text got photographed by a journalist.
A Florida funeral home has unveiled an ‘alakaline hydrolysis’ unit, which dissolves dead bodies in heated alkaline water. Which is, apparently, something you might want to do; the process is being billed as a far greener alternative than cremation, producing far less greenhouse gas and requiring far less energy.
Every now and again I’ll post a column on a certain word that wine people – myself included – use to describe wines that can be slightly troubling. I am going to try and make it a little bit clearer as to how the word is being used in reference to wine. Because as much fun as it is pairing wine with death, one must try to be of some use. Slight disclaimer: This is a column that imagines its readers enjoy thinking about wine a little. If you are happy with the “Ja, not battery acid I’ll drink it. Fuck that it’ll kill you” approach to drinking wine, this may annoy you.
The sex tape that made Kim Kardashian, well, Kim Kardashian has a bidder who desperately wants it off the market. It’s been mere days since Kim’s marriage to Kris Humphries, and an anonymous buyer now suddenly wants Vivid Entertainment’s rights to the infamous 2007 tape of her and Ray J. And those rights ain’t cheap.
Still trying to find your perfect match? Look no further than your own face! Find Your FaceMate is an online dating agency that pairs couples up by matching their facial characteristics to someone with the same (or near-enough) looks.
You know how, every year that you’ve made the nine-hour trek to Hermanus, you’re kind of disappointed by how far away that mass-grouping of whales is from the shoreline? Whales are majestic creatures, but are they worth the agony of gawking at them from behind hoardes of shore-bound people? You have no right to be […]
The ancient Egyptians have always been known to be ahead of their time, and one of the most advanced of the early modern civilisations. Scientists have now revealed that they think that the Egyptians used a type of hair gel because, well, appearance was also important back then.
The Dalai Lama has applied for a South African visa to visit Desmond Tutu on the Arch Bishop’s 80th birthday. He is due to give a lecture here on 7 October as part of the celebrations. Why does he need a visa? Because he was barred entry to South Africa in 2009 to ensure that ties with our key trade partner, China weren’t jeopardised.
It’s pretty neat – the new pen by Wacom draws like a regular pen, but has a pressure-sensitive receiver that records your actual drawings for digital import and computer manipulation. So when you doodle obscene images, they show up directly onto your screen. Welcome to the future.
ANC Shocked By ‘Hooligan Behaviour’ – The ANC has blamed its youth league for the “hooligan behaviour” by supporters of league president Julius Malema in Johannesburg’s CBD on Tuesday. At least one policeman and five journalists were injured when youths threw stones, set bins alight and burnt images of ANC leaders ahead of Malema’s disciplinary hearing […]
Foo Fighters don’t actually have to promote anything to get people to shell out cash for their upcoming North America tour, but because they had a fat wad of cash to spend on advertising and some guy in marketing wouldn’t stop saying the word ‘viral,’ they’ve put this video together for you. Take a look.
Two staff members from private security firm, G4S, have been fired after failing to notice that the leg they were strapping a tracking device to, was a prosthetic limb. The offender, Christopher Lowcock, wrapped his get-away-stick in a bandage, disguising it like a boss.
The time has come for tennis to tell Maria Sharapova and her fellow screamers to shut up. Enough is enough. Someone needs to take that one small step for women’s tennis and do something about this ridiculous tactic. The 2011 US Open got underway yesterday, but it looks like it will be yet another unnecessarily loud tennis championship.
The first picture of Steve Jobs since resigning from Apple has emerged. It was taken outside his California home and in it he appears looking gaunt and very frail. The image is fueling fears that he is nearing the end of his eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
Since the shoes go on the feet, it’s easy to ignore them. To think you can get by with a good shirt and jacket while leaving your shoes to the mercy of poor taste is not ok. I suspect this is why Gregory House said that shoes never lie.
Huang Nubo, the sixteenth richest person in China, has offered $100 million to buy 300 square kilometres of Icelandic wilderness. He calls himself a “poet and adventurer,” so it would make sense that he’d want to buy the property to develop a golf course and tourist destination.
No, not Season 4 of Jersey Shore, this is some truly traumatic Tuesday Science! Last weekend, a 16-year old girl in Florida died due to a rare species of amoeba infecting her brain cavity and eating her brain!
Hundreds of people have been gathering this morning outside the ANC Youth League headquarters in Johannesburg, following the league’s promise that supporters would behave well in the lead up to Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing. Rubber bullets have already been used by police to contain the crowd. Twitter is alive with reports of violence and mayhem going down.
Not sure if you caught the article in the Sunday Times about Dean Rees, who ran a ponzi scheme which sucked in and spat out the likes of former Pick n Pay CEO, Sean Summers. You can read the article here, if you missed it. So anyway, he has run off to Switzerland, where he […]
And in good news: researchers at the University of Cambridge re-examined the results of seven existing studies and concluded that high levels of chocolate consumption might be associated with a reduction in the risk of developing heart disease. The research was presented at Europe’s biggest medical meeting in Paris yesterday.
A nanny, who worked for one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, has been found abandoned in a room at one of the family’s luxury seaside villas in western Tripoli. She is covered in weeping scabs after boiling water was poured over her head by one of Gaddafi’s daughter-in-laws. Why? The nanny refused to beat the woman’s daughter.
Austin Powers Actor, ‘Random Task’ Convicted Of Rape And Torture – The actor best known for playing Dr. Evil’s shoe-throwing henchman Random Task in 1997’s “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,” was convicted of torture Thursday in Santa Ana, Calif. in connection with a 1990 Christmas Eve gang rape of a woman who was out […]
A music producer from the UK sat patiently for 24 hours while a tattooist recreated a scene from the popular Where’s Wally book series on his back. The artwork features 150 characters in normal dress and historic and fantasy figures like Vikings, pirates, a caveman, cowboys and Star Wars characters. Wally is hiding among them – can you find him?
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