When you’ve been fending off stories about your corruption and criminality for more than a decade, what’s another damning revelation, right?
Yesterday, the Sunday Times dropped an explosive report detailing how Zuma stashed $30m (about R422m) in cash in an underground bunker at Nkandla.
Closing in on Gaddafi’s SA billions. 11-year-old gives birth. World’s longest commercial flight launched. Baby scan shows demon. Cobain solo album. Amazon’s JHB office. Britain wants Assange bad. Best songwriter ever revealed.
Soooooo Gaddafi decided to hide his enormous wealth in South Africa, if the story is to be believed. I reckon we all get out out our spades and wheelbarrows and start digging…
In an upcoming documentary on the late Muammar Gaddafi, some of the Libyan dictator’s sick and perverted habits are revealed. ‘Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi’, reveals among other things, his university sex dens and his home corpse freezers.
Pope wants to fix Vatican bank. Obama gets brain happy. Gaddafi’s daughter set fire to her host’s house. Presidency more angry with M&G. Who created the bitcoin? The Queen got a pay rise. Scotland has a spacecraft.
It is very, very dangerous being ambassadorial these days. Probably moreso if you were ever one of Muammar Gaddafi’s diplomats. Libya’s former ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, died during detention by armed militia in Tripoli – and judging from the autopsy, it was not a merciful killing.
South Africa’s only independent TV news channel has been fined R35 000 by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa for contraventions of the broadcasting code. The complaints were filed in October, for showing images of Colonel Gaddafi moments before his death. This was done at 07h30 and repeatedly until 12h00 without any warnings or advisories.
I was a big fan of the Vodacom ad some time ago, which featured the African-dictator-type character, laughing as he abuses his power, repeatedly delivering the catchphrase “We’ve been having it!” The central idea of Nando’s festive season campaign follows that trend and revolves around a Robert Mugabe lookalike, as he reminisces about the good […]
We find ourselves in a world completely changed by technology. Not only can we hear and read that Muammar Gaddafi has died, but we can also see what his dead body looks like – within minutes! We can even watch clips such as this one involving Hilary Clinton. Watch her reaction, in real-time, as she receives the news via her Blackberry moments before it broke worldwide.