Zahrul Fuadi, 39, joins Tsutomu Yamaguchi as the second in a pair of the luckiest men in history.
Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombs, and Fuadi survived two killer tsunamis.
Opposition parties are in strong agreement with the Constitutional Court’s ruling that the legislation providing for the dissolution of the Scorpions and their replacement by the Hawks was constitutionally invalid. In a decision yesterday, the highest court in the land found that a section of the Act in question did not allow for enough protection from political influence. Opposition parties have welcomed this decision.
Aristide Buggers Off And Tells Everyone Else (Obama In Particular) To Do The Same – The US did everything except stamp its foot and declare it forbidden, but nothing was going to stop Jean-Bertrand Aristide from leaving Johannesburg on Thursday night. Not the prospect of his mere presence throwing his country into chaos, and certainly […]
Happy St Paddy’s Day. If you’re out and about making merry in Cape Town tonight, take a pause between sips of Guinness to have a look at the mountain. You may notice something different about it. Yip, those green-as-a-leprechaun floodlights. Table Mountain will be illuminated tonight from 8pm until midnight to mark Irish holiday St Patrick’s Day.
Described as a holy grail for South African historians, the gun Nelson Mandela buried almost 50 years ago is nowhere near being reunited with its original proprietor. The owner of the property where the gun is supposedly buried, originally part of Liliesleaf farm, is at loggerheads with museum officials representing the Liliesleaf Trust.
One hears all these news reports about around the world, but there is nothing like visuals to demonstrate what these poor people are going through as we speak. In this video you’ll witness the apparent killing of an unarmed protester at point blank range by military forces loyal to king Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
The European Union is attempting to establish the “right to be forgotten online,” as a legislative response to embarrassing old data – risque photographs, stupid statuses – that refuse to disappear. The proposed bit of legislation would enforce higher privacy settings and offer greater user control.
This is truly an amazing and compelling visual indication of the extent of the damage caused by the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. Simply move the slider to compare before and after satellite images of the damage caused. It’s unbelievable.
A grade 1 teacher from the Orchards Primary School just outside Centurion in Gauteng has been suspended by the schools governing body after pupils claim she called them k*****s. She now also faces a disciplinary hearing next week. Apparently she also called them “black monkeys”. But, has she been levelled with false accusations?
Nine days to go, my friends. And you how things happen here in Cape Town – everyone wakes up at the last minute. Last year’s party saw 50% of the tickets sold in the last three days, resulting in a lot of disappointment for a lot of people. With nine days left to go, and […]
Chris Rock reckons that all of us have at least one gay uncle. If that is the case, the ACDP and FF+, might have just lost a lot of votes in the upcoming elections. A motion for Parliament to congratulate South Africa’s new Mr. Gay World winner, Francois Nel, has been blocked by these two parties. Gaga is not going to be happy about this.
This hurts me somewhere deep inside. A customer disgusted by the poor service at Lamborghini China service station responded to the situation by hiring a mob with sledgehammers to tear into his Lamborghini Gallardo L140 – this, apparently, to draw attention to poor customer service.
Confirmed!
The Sharks will be playing their game against the Crusaders at Twickenham on March 27.
Predictable Shaik A Free Man – Shabir Shaik is a free man. A parole supervision committee investigation yesterday cleared him of assaulting a man at a mosque in Durban. He has also been cleared of violating his parole conditions. Correctional Services regional commissioneer Mnikelwa Nxele said there was no evidence to support the allegation of […]
As if we didn’t have enough public holidays already, here’s another one. May the 18th is the day of the local government elections and great president Zuma has declared it a public holiday, so we can all vote, safe in the knowledge that another day in the country’s economy won’t be productive at all.
Crusty rocker Bryan Adams is about to become a dad for the first time. At 51, Adams – who is responsible for nostalgic pop anthems ‘Summer of 69′ and ’18 Til I Die’ – clearly believes it’s never too late to have a happy childhood. Or, for that matter, to have a child.
Gauteng’s top brass are being flushed out again for misappropriation of taxpayers’ money. This time it’s totalling a little over R12 million since 2005 on lavish refurbishments and renovations to the official Bryanston residence of the Gauteng Premier.
Did you get a slightly uneasy feeling when you discovered Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was a Disney movie? Mild surprise may be a better description, well – you may have experienced a similar feeling when you found that Captain Jack Sparrow, better known as Johnny Depp, is Rango. That’s right… […]
Finally, some good news out of Japan! Imagine being a Japanese foreign student in America, having no way of knowing if your family on the other side of the world survived the tsunami that rocked the region last week, until you find a YouTube video, confirming their survival. It’s okay, I also had to wipe my eyes afterward.
This has been generating some online discussion – a video of a dude hijacking billboards in Times Square using an iPhone 4, a transmitter, a balloon and some tape, like a geeky MacGyver. The feeling at the moment is that this is a publicity stunt, but if so it’s an awesome-looking stunt.
Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun), a short film directed by Kids writer, Harmony Korine, and starring Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yo-Landi premiered today at the SXSW festival in Texas. The premise: Ninja and Yolandi are wheelchair-bound,dirt poor gangsters, intent on gaining more street cred by upgrading their wheelchairs for higher-end models.
When we beat India on Saturday it was a great day for a team that was derided as chokers. And to make things worse, Morné van Wyk dropped three catches, including Virender Sehwag when he was on four. In fact people said he actually looked as if he was asleep. As it turns out, he was.
A 52 year old woman was arrested in the middle-class suburb of Kenilworth, Cape Town, for dealing in drugs on Monday. She is not alone in her entrepreneurial endeavors. It seems a growing number of grannies are entering the underworld and deceiving the greater public of their criminal tendencies.
In this girls defense, she does begin her rant off with “no offense”, She goes on to launch a thinly-veiled, racially-charged diatribe, loaded with the kind of epithets that make you wince. I know someone who could benefit from Charm 101.
At long last, Microsoft has taken their iPod-but-worse MP3 player, the Zune, out behind the shed with a shotgun. Microsoft announced that they would stop making new versions of the music/video player due to “tepid demand.”
1 X Miracle Miracle As Baby Is Found In Japan Rubble – A four-month old baby girl dressed in a pink snow suit has been found in the ruins of a home in earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Japan – 72 hours after the disaster hit. She was rescued from the rubble of her devastated town of […]
Kobus du Plessis gave his daughter a Winnie The Pooh umbrella he bought for her fifth birthday. The thing is, she’s not five, she’s fifteen. The Durban policeman had tracked down his 15-year-old daughter Zandrea and her sister, Leonie, 18 after their mother vanished overseas with them ten years ago. Check this out.
We might live in a 3rd Wold country, but at least we don’t have to put up with these guys. The usual suspects like Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-Il, and Muammar al-Gaddafi can be found on this list, along with seven other monsters, between them responsible for corruption, cannibalism, pedophilia, and the deaths of millions of innocent people.
Rescue robots have been deployed in the parts of of Japan worst affected by the massive earthquake and tsunamis that struck Friday. Robiticist Satoshi Tadoko is apparently leading a team from Tohoku Universityen route to Sendai with ‘a snakelike robot that can wriggle into debris to hunt for people.’
The nightmare continues for commuters throughout the Cape Town metropolitan area, due to continued striking by Santaco (the SA National Taxi Council). Violence re-erupted overnight when a bus was set alight and cars were stoned. Police are monitoring the situation but it’s still very hard to catch a taxi.