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Media
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The Best Of Twitter In Your Inbox
15 May 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
In February this year, Twitter unveiled a service that allows researchers, and anyone who has the money to pay for the service, to unlock the Twitter archives, as it were. They’ve expanded their product range again; and now you can get a weekly email summarising the most relevant tweets and stories distributed by the people on your timeline.
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Derek Watts Debuts All New “Pinkie Pinch” Hand Gesture On Carte Blanche
14 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
Derek Watts aficionados will agree that Dezza only adds a new “move” once in a blue moon. This is one of those rare moments. He pulled out a brand new hand gesture on Sunday night, as he delivered his closing message to camera on MNET’s Carte Blanche magazine show. It seems the “fist and thumb” has [...]
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Tech Report – Cloud Computing
10 May 2012 by 2oceansVibe TV / No Comments
Cloud Computing. You’ve probably heard the phrase at a bar, or around your depressingly busy photocopy machine at work. Bill from management, or Peter from accounts drops this term at every opportunity, and every time you just smile and nod. Standing there without a worthwhile contribution. So you embarrass yourself again, by talking about your [...]
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Racist Ranting Itumeleng Mabeba Says He Was Hacked
10 May 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
A short while ago, Jessica Leandra dos Santos and Tshidi Thamana seemed to try to apologise for their recent actions, as well as form some kind of friendship. But Itumeleng Mabeba, a man at the centre of hate speech allegations for sending a very disturbing tweet, has claimed his Twitter account was hacked. His employer is also instituting an internal disciplinary process against him.
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Shifting Mdluli Simply Not Good Enough
10 May 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Politicians reacted angrily at the decision to move Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli out of his crime intelligence position yesterday. A collective feeling amongst opposition parties was that this was simply not good enough, and that Mdluli should be suspended again.
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Fire Breaks Out At Mitchells Plain Hospital
09 May 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
Firefighters are currently battling a fire that broke out on the construction site of Mitchells Plain Hospital. Not a lot of details are known at this stage. EWN is reporting that emergency officials are on the scene, and that site managers are trying to keep the media away from taking pictures.
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EXCLUSIVE: 2oceansVibe Speaks To Racist ‘Model’ Tshidi Thamana’s Ex-Agent
08 May 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 1 Comment
By now, many people within South Africa’s news-following public are familiar with the recent burst of racism that took place on South Africa’s twittersphere involving a model and a “model”. Mistakes were made, but the backlash and long-term effects from a social and mainstream media clamouring may have devastating consequences on the individuals involved. Things begin to go pearshaped when the media is inaccurate with information that disperses frantically when a news story of this nature breaks.
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SANRAL CEO, Nazir Alli, Hands In Resignation
08 May 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
The SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) has confirmed that CEO, Nazir Alli has resigned. Even though they did not provide more details, Alli’s resignation comes close on the heels of the recent Gauteng e-toll system disaster.
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Google TV Launches In The US In May
07 May 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
LG Electronics, the world’s second biggest TV maker, will launch Internet-enabled TV based on Google’s platform in the United States in May. The South Korean firm is after a share of the emerging Internet TV market, a senior LG executive said today.
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GQ ‘Style’ Hits Shelves Today
07 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
You will be pleased to know that GQ’s new ‘Style’ magazine hits shelves today. I think the guy on the cover is absolutely killing it. Look at him. Just dishing out fistfuls of napalm, willy nilly. Check this vibe out: It is with great pleasure and excitement that GQ South Africa announces the launch of GQ [...]
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Jessica Leandra Stripped Of FHM Title After Racist Tweets
04 May 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 16 Comments
Fury broke out across social networks today after FHM model Jessica Leandra dropped the K-bomb on a “gentleman” in a shop last night. In an attempt to explain where “her anger boiled from”, she updated her blog, also saying she is “apologetic”. FHM, however, has since publicly distanced themselves from her. Read the full statement by editor, Brendan Cooper, after the jump.
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Leandra Latest: Jessica Takes To Her Website To Apologise
04 May 2012 by Matt McDonald / 13 Comments
With her name trending on Twitter, and most of the major news outlets having picked up the story, Jessica Leandra is having a pretty crap Friday thus far. Last night she tweeted a little bigotry that she may regret for a lot longer than it took her to respond to the backlash on her website. Her full apology, after the jump, but is it enough?
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Tweet All About It! FHM Model Jessica Leandra Drops K-Bomb In Spar [PICS]
04 May 2012 by Matt McDonald / 66 Comments
You cannot make this stuff up. FHM model and self-described “glamorous blonde of Mediterranean nationality, born and bred in South Africa” dropped a K-bomb on another shopper during altercation in Spar last night, and then took to Twitter with her bile. More of Jessica’s online foolishness, after the jump!
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Nobel Prize Winner Nadine Gordimer Says Scrap Info Bill “In Its Entirety”
03 May 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
On World Press Freedom Day, the highly acclaimed writer, and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Nadine Gordimer, called for the Protection of Information Bill to be “rejected in its entirety.” She launched the scathing rebuttal in an article entitled, “South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom”, on the New York Review of Books website.
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Brand New 2oceansvibe Column – O.F.I.M.
30 Apr 2012 by Clarence Delgado / No Comments
While T.G.I.F. garners praise from all corners of the working world, many of us lack the sort of hard-nosed attitude toward the beginning of the work week that would increase our chances of making it past Wednesday in one piece. To that end, we present our latest satirical column, O.F.I.M. (Oh, [Insert Appropriate Eff Word [...]
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I Am An African Man: African Men, Hollywood Stereotypes [VIDEO]
30 Apr 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
One of the positive things to emerge from the Kony 2012 saga was the fact that discussion around some of Africa’s many problems increased. One could say that more people know about some of the things we deal with, than before Kony 2012. Charity organisation, Mama Hope, has since released a response video, seeking to break what it calls stereotypes of black African men.
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Nando’s Delivers On Santam’s Challenge, And Then Some
26 Apr 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 4 Comments
Nando’s didn’t hesitate accepting the challenge that Santam had set them this week. In fact, Nando’s delivered a day early, and then bettered it, showing they definitely weren’t chicken. Some might call it a very good example of symbiotic radvertising.
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Tech Report – Definitive protestor’s guide to uploading and sharing photos
26 Apr 2012 by 2oceansVibe TV / No Comments
As Occupy Wall Street taught us, protesting is not only a fantastic way to keep your democracy vibrant and your government honest, but it also gives you a lot of ‘cool’ factor’. And nothing says street cred with protesting, like photos uploaded to the net from the actual protesting site. In this episode Seth shows [...]
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Controversial Foreign Policy Magazine Cover Story Sparks Debate
25 Apr 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Egyptian-American writer, Mona Eltahawy, has penned a controversial cover article for the latest Foreign Policy magazine, entitled: “Why Do They Hate Us?” In it, she argues that women must finish the revolutions started by the Arab Spring, and a semi-nude woman models a body-paint niqab.
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Man Fighting For His Life After Court Shooting This Morning
24 Apr 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
This morning a man was shot in the neck outside the Cape High Court, and is currently fighting for his life. His attackers are unknown and immediately fled the scene. According to people who know the victim, he was attending a murder trial involving five members of the Junky Funkie Gang.
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James Murdoch Received Ethical Assurances That “Proved To Be Wrong”
24 Apr 2012 by Janey Bee / No Comments
James Murdoch has defended his actions in the News International scandal, blaming subordinates for feeding him wrong information around just how illegally the company’s flagship newspaper, News of the World, had been conducting its journalism. This emerged today during the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, which we reported on earlier.
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SA Post Office Releases Gorgeous New Stamps To Celebrate Freedom Day [PICS]
24 Apr 2012 by Matt McDonald / 1 Comment
The South African Post Office is celebrating the 18th anniversary of our transition to democracy this Friday with a set of eight gorgeous new stamps designed by Lize Marié Dreyer, a third-year student at the Open Window School of Visual Communication in Gauteng. We’ve got the full set of these philatelic fancies, after the jump!
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James And Rupert Murdoch Back In The Dock
24 Apr 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Both James and Rupert Murdoch are due to give new evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, starting today. James will appear first, followed by his father, tomorrow. The inquiry will now focus on the relationship between the press and politicians.
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Acting National Police Commissioner Hints At Political Instructions
23 Apr 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Acting national police commissioner, General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, hinted on Thursday to MP’s that police had been instructed on which cases were “off limits” to them. He said this was something that was happening a lot “of late”, and that the instructions came from “powers beyond us”.
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