At the end of last week, parliament confirmed that the embattled public works department had spent approximately R183 million since May 2009, and that R46 million had been dropped on exclusive residences in this year alone. It’s therefore no surprise that the Hawks are struggling to finance their investigations.
A picture of a white guy posing as a “hunter” on his Facebook page next to a “dead” black child has – thankfully – turned out to be a fake. The man who calls himself “Eugene Terrorblance” was apprehended by police in 2007 for this image, but told them at the time that he paid the child to pose as his “trophy”.
Recession reschmesssion. Russia has unveiled an ambitious (read: $65 billion) plan to build the world’s longest tunnel under the Bering Strait – as part of a railway corridor linking North America to Europe, via Siberia. Because ships and planes just weren’t cutting it. Also, this sucker’s going to be entirely fueled by green energy, apparently.
This week we take a look at another cult classic dragged from the mists of time, rebooted with some big effects and bigger chests (as many D-cup pecs as D-list names) and presented in a cinema near you, in glorious 3D. Conan The Barbarian.
In what has been deemed a landmark case starting today in the North Gauteng High Court, 13 advocates face being struck off the roll for allegedly sucking the Road Accident Fund dry through dodgy billing practices.
Yes, it seems as if the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and will probably take the secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 with him soon. CNN found al-Megrahi in his palatial Tripoli villa on Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip, under the care of his family.
Scientists have made a unique discovery in the Brazilian rainforests of the Amazon: a subterranean river that flows underneath the Amazon River, some four thousand metres below the actual Amazon River. It’s also roughly the same length of the Amazon River, according to the scientists.
In the fashion world you’re either in or you’re out. And Bryan Boy is most definitely in, what with him being a top international fashion blogger and all. Sunglass Hut, along with Marie Claire will be bringing him to South Africa for a series of workshops and appearances. Details after the jump.
Chris Anderson, graphic design student, is installing 1 000 broken surfboards in the sands of a Sydney beach to inform people of the unsustainable practices in surfboard manufacturing. I’m not sure how breaking a thousand surfboards helps this problem, but the installation looks pretty cool.
The Chinese government, in a not-unusual display of authoritarian petulance, has banned the download of over a hundred music titles from popular online music sites in China.
Dan Aykroyd recently announced the release of the third installment in the Ghostbusters series. But, without a definite yes from Bill Murray, how could it ever be the same? As far as the storyline goes he has dropped a few hints, with one of them being the assembly of a new, younger team, under the supervision of the overweight, handicapped old one.
Changing a tyre involves more swearing, cursing and scraped knuckles than a bar fight between 500 drunken racehorse owners. It’s something that one day we will all have to face. So you’d think car makers would make it easy. You’d be wrong. Very wrong.
A ground-breaking new documentary called Knuckle shows one mans 12-year mission to infiltrate some of the most closely guarded communities in Britain: pikeys. Director Ian Palmer spent over a decade filming James Quinn McDonagh, nicknamed King of the Gypsies, and his family, even living with them, while documenting three feuding gypsy families for a new film.
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
An American mechanic took a client’s classic Ferrari F40 for a spin in Texas last week. Unfortunately he lost control of the 20-year-old supercar and smashed it into a fence. He survived, but somehow I don’t think that helps his case much. Police felt it necessary to also mention that speeding was involved before the accident.
You should know about this. Ali Ferzat, an immensely popular Syrian cartoonist and outspoken critic of President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on the opposition, has been beaten, burned, and had both of his hands broken by masked gunmen, as a warning to cease his anti-Assad activism.
2oceansvibe reported earlier this week that Ard Matthews had apologised profusely to the nation, via Twitter and subsequent interviews, for his performance of Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, citing nerves. Matthews has posted a video of himself singing the whole national anthem without mistakes online. Click through for the video.
Last night the people of New York were told they had better prepare themselves for a direct hit by Hurricane Irene over the weekend. In fact, it seems that being a victim of the hurricane, which has already caused devastation in the Bahamas, will not be acceptable if and when it hits NYC.
Constitutional rights don’t hold much water with the Islamic police in Indonesia’s Aceh province. The province’s religious police force have forcibly separated a lesbian couple and warned the two women they could be beheaded under Islamic law. Homsexuality is legal in the rest of Indonesia.
Remember the sad old days when the only screens that came with USB inputs in them were 15 inches wide, and you and 12 friends were forced to watch that awesome viral video on that single tiny screen, and inevitably there was a heated argument afterwards, because one of the guys who was watching from […]
Yesterday, while the rebels overran Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, they also got their first taste of how their defunct dictatorial leader lived. While some chose to cruise around in the colonel’s preferred mode of transport: the golf cart, others had a good look-and-loot of Gaddafi’s personal residence’s. There’s a merry-go-round and even glass casings around his deceased daughter’s stuff.
OK Go did a rendition of the theme song from The Muppet Show in their Green Album. Now they’ve made a video; it’s sort of like all of their other music videos, except it features Muppets. I don’t like suggesting that something going viral is a foregone conclusion, but this thing going viral is a foregone conclusion.
There is so much drama in the SA wine industry at the moment, what with caffeine conundrums, and now a damning (albeit one-sided) report from Human Rights Watch that Western Cape fruit farmers are treating their workers like it’s the 1860s. I thought I would steer completely clear of such depressing matters and uplift the wine drinking nation with some sound advice as to what wine to open when faced with certain situations in your life.
We’re not sure who’s behind this raging torrent of satire, but our first guess is that they’re Capetonian. The hitlist includes food writer Dax Villanueva, The Power and the Glory, The Roundhouse, and Beluga. Eina. Find the link, after the jump.
With all these incidents of hackers lately, I’m waiting for Angelina Jolie to pop out somewhere and some guy named Cereal Killer to commandeer my TV. In this incident someone hacked a digital roadside sign in Flagstaff, Arizona, warning civilians of a ‘rogue panda on the rampage’. What a legend.
We live in a progressive city here in Cape Town – we like to think out of the box. And that’s just what Kristin van der Hoven has done by launching Proud Hounds Doggie Daycare in the city. Sick of leaving your precious pup at home while you’re at work? Then bring it to Kristin and the crew for the day.
You know that word that is normally preceded by “jou ma se”? Yes, that one. During a recent episode of Toy Stories on BBC (starring James May from Top Gear), that very same word sneakily popped up on screen. It appeared to be randomly written on the inside of a Spitfire plane replica that May was busy looking into.
Screenshots from a Chinese military propaganda video uploaded to YouTube last month reveal a cyberwarfare app designed to make attacks look like they’re coming from any IP address. In the video, the Chinese government can be seen sending attacks from an IP address belonging to the University of Alabama.
In news that is completely normal and not creepy in the slightest, hundreds of ‘Royalists’ are descending on London stores desperate to snatch up doll replicas of Britain’s latest royal two-some- HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Meet Karmin, a duo from Boston in the States who are doing things to RnB tracks that make the original artists sweat in their Ice Creams. Take a listen below! I’m prepared to bet you’ve never heard Chris Brown’s ‘Look At Me Now’ done this way before.