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Communication
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UPDATE: Vicious Police Brutality In Vaalwater, Limpopo
14 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 14 Comments
Yesterday, 2oceansVibe ran a story about the brutal handling of an individual by a Vaalwater policeman. Instead of facing a charge of attempted murder, the officer involved is facing a lesser charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. He also spent time as the acting station commander of Vaalwater Police Station, after the incident occurred.
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Vicious Police Brutality In Vaalwater, Limpopo [VIDEO]
13 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 14 Comments
A video clip of a uniformed police officer brutally attacking and detaining an individual has been brought to our attention. The footage, allegedly filmed in Vaalwater, Limpopo, clearly incriminates a Vaalwater police van, and a uniformed police officer who appears to still be on duty. N5FW.
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George Bizos Declares Info Bill Unconstitutional
13 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Nelson Mandela’s former defence lawyer, and veteran human rights lawyer, George Bizos, has written to Parliament stating that the protection of state information bill is unconstitutional on several counts.
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Is CNN About To Buy Mashable?
12 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
A few hours ago, Reuters blogger, Felix Salmon, recorded an exclusive interview in which it was revealed that CNN will buy social media website, Mashable, for more than $200 million dollars. The announcement is due to be confirmed as early as tomorrow, according to Salmon.
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Your 2012 Cape Argus Road Closures
09 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
It’s that time of the year again when thousands of lycra-clad cyclists descend on the Mother City for the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour. Capetonians, your road closures begin tomorrow, so here is what you need to be aware of.
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Riaan Cruywagen: The Autobiography
08 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Riaan Cruywagen will release an autobiography at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival this year. It will be available in stores from April 2. The man who knows the news before the news happens, has enjoyed a prosperous 47 years in broadcasting, of which 37 were spent as an Afrikaans newsreader.
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Mandela’s Grandson Charged With Fraud
08 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Earlier this week, 2oceansVibe reported that possible charges of fraud were to be brought against Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Zondwa Mandela. We can now confirm that charges have been laid against him, as well as an Aurora Empowerment Systems lawyer, who also happens to be a director of Velvet Sky Aviation.
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UPDATED: Was Facebook Hacked?
07 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
“Probably not,” is the answer. It seems as if things have returned to normal on the Facebook servers around parts of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The outage earlier affected facebook.com, as well as apps for mobile phones and tablets. Facebook has thus far put the incident down to “technical difficulties.”
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![Invisible Children: Make Joseph Kony Famous [VIDEO]](http://media.2oceansvibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Screen-shot-2012-03-07-at-10.37.46-AM.png)
Invisible Children: Make Joseph Kony Famous [VIDEO]
07 Mar 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 1 Comment
This might turn out to be the most inspiring documentary you will watch all year. A serious campaign is underway to bring down Joseph Kony, the infamous leader of the Ugandan guerrilla group: the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA is responsible for an unquantifiable number of atrocities across Uganda. Human trafficking, brutal rape, and child soldier deployment are commonplace. This is KONY 2102.
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73% Of People Would Prefer An SMS Instead Of A Phone Call
05 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
I am completely flabbergasted at the amount of people who still think it is cool to call out of the blue. People who assume that you are available at that exact time. People who assume you want to take a chance in the hope that THAT particular call is not an annoying salesman or bank person. People [...]
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Twitter Unlocks The Tweet Archives
28 Feb 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
For the first time ever, researchers will now be able to access extensive historical Twitter data. Previously, only the preceding 30 days of tweets were available for companies to search. The new move means that trend analysts and companies looking for specific insight will now be able to access tweets dating back two years.
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What Does This Traffic Light Signal Mean?
28 Feb 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 4 Comments
Capetonians: on Janssens Road, in Tableview, near the bike shop, this traffic light is sporting a new “green” signal. Apparently, this isn’t the first traffic light that’s been sporting this kind of “green” signal either.
[Thanks, Jake R]
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![BBC Weatherman Predicts Bucket Loads Of… Wait, What? [VIDEO]](http://media.2oceansvibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/alex.jpg)
BBC Weatherman Predicts Bucket Loads Of… Wait, What? [VIDEO]
21 Feb 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
BBC weather forecaster, Alex Deakin, managed to predict what no other weather forecaster has previously forecast on Saturday evening’s BBC World weather report. He meant to say “sunshine”, but he definitely didn’t, and instead conjured up a very strange weather prediction indeed. N5FW.
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Finally: SA And Mozambique Hold Urgent Rhino Poaching Meeting
08 Feb 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
On Monday, the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs in South Africa, Edna Molewa, met with the Minister of Tourism in Mozambique, Fernando Sumbana Junior. They met in Pretoria to discuss solutions to the rhino poaching epidemic occurring in the Kruger National Park. This is what they’ve concluded so far.
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Awesome Fundraising Is Awesome
27 Jan 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Not even 24 hours ago, a user of the popular user-generated news link website, reddit, asked if readers wouldn’t mind helping out with a donation for an orphanage in Kenya. Humans went over and above what was required, by a long way. This is awesome.
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Cosatu Is Really Unhappy With That DA Poster, Drops “White Supremacy” Slur
26 Jan 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Cosatu has come out guns blazing at that DA Students’ Organisation poster that has raised a few eyebrows this week. Speaking in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday, Zet Luzipo, provincial secretary for Cosatu, and no stranger to speaking his mind, slammed the poster saying: “It entrenches white supremacy that we fought against during the liberation struggle.”
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Facebook Timeline Will Be Compulsory Shortly
25 Jan 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Facebook’s new Timeline feature, that up until now has been an optional switch for its more than 800 million users, will very shortly become compulsory for everyone using the social networking platform. Facebook began the forced switch in some regions yesterday, and will continue to do so in the next few weeks.
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Ridiculous New Year SMSs – Post Yours Here (Works On Mobile)
01 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 9 Comments
Every new year a group of us has great fun forwarding and swapping SMSs with each other. You know the ones I’m talking about – “May you and your loved ones have blessed New Year and blah blah blah.” It is a very weird practice, but more-so because the wording is so unnaturally elaborate – [...]
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DJ Starts Mandela Hospital Rumour After Watching E-TV Year In Review Special
30 Dec 2011 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Social media feeds, especially Twitter feeds, started buzzing with a rumour that Nelson Mandela had been admitted to hospital a few hours ago. It appears a DJ just happened to watch a programme airing on E-TV about the year that’s passed, and saw old visuals that prompted him to think Madiba had in fact been hospitalised.
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Have You Seen This BlackBerry Thief?
22 Dec 2011 by Bearded Wiseman / 5 Comments
One would assume that when one blacklists a phone, one could take it for granted that the phone is, in fact, blacklisted. Mobile phone networks also like to offer their assurance that when one blacklists a phone, that’s actually what happens. However, this isn’t the case for a BlackBerry user who’s found out this chap is now using it.
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More Woolies “Copying” Emerges
21 Dec 2011 by Bearded Wiseman / 3 Comments
It hasn’t been Woolworths’ finest month in retail relations. At the beginning of the month, the retailer abruptly announced it would be relieving Jupiter Drawing Room of its advertising business. Then, allegations of product counterfeiting and imitating began to emerge yesterday. Now, another small business owner has come forward and identified Woolworths as selling a knock-off of his product.
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Rare 1980′s Steve Jobs Presentation Emerges Online [VIDEO]
13 Dec 2011 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Regis McKenna has very kindly donated rare vintage footage of Steve Jobs giving a presentation in the early 1980’s to the Computer History Museum. It shows Jobs discussing the early history of Apple, and speaking in his usual inspiring manner.
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Iran Parades US Drone, Russia And China Want To Inspect It
09 Dec 2011 by Bearded Wiseman / 2 Comments
US officials previously confirmed that an RQ-170 Sentinel, otherwise known as a drone, did, in fact, crash land somewhere in Iran. They however weren’t keen to confirm that the footage Iran broadcast on state television yesterday was in fact real. In other news, Russia and China want to inspect the US craft.
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Old Spice MANta Clause [VIDEO]
08 Dec 2011 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Old Spice is at it again. This time, Isaiah Mustafa is MANta Claus, and he’s on a mission to give the world’s seven billion residents gifts before the festive season ends. His mantra is, “One Man, Seven Billion Gifts.”
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