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    • UPDATED: Stun Grenades And Fires: There’s A Protest Happening In Cape Town Right Now [PICS + VIDEO]

      27 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      Protesters began marching from Woodstock and Cape Town Central train stations to the Western Cape Legislature in the CBD at around 10:50 this morning. Thus far the march has been characterised by heavy police presence, arson (allegedly by protestors), and stun grenades on Sir Lowry Road between Woodstock and the CBD. We’ll keep you posted.

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    • Check Out This Saab On Fire Right Now On The N1 [PICS]

      22 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments

      These photos were just sent to us from a driver on Cape Town’s N1. We’ll update with more info as it comes in. Check out the pics, below.

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    • Is This The End For The Royal Cape Yacht Club?

      20 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      The Royal Cape Yacht Club has been accommodating Yacht owners in Cape Town since 1905, and is one of the Mother Cities’ oldest institutions.

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    • Shoppers Stampede Security, Break Doors And Crush Bystanders At Local Clothing Sale [VIDEO]

      24 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments

      Tuesday 23 July 2013 marked the start of The Young Designer’s Emporium ‘Naked Sale’ where everything in store is priced at R99. It’s only natural for a sale like this to attract large crowds, but this is a little crazy.

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    • Butlers Pizza Thanks The Crew Of The SMIT Amandla Tug Boat

      29 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Those of you living on in the real world would have been vaguely aware of a Japanese fishing vessel, the Eihatsu Maru, parked on South Africa’s fair shores in the last two weeks.What you might not have thought about in the ensuing drama was the incredible job that the crew of the SMIT Amandla tug […]

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    • Fire Breaks Out At Mitchells Plain Hospital

      09 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 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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    • Global Marijuana March Takes Place In Cape Town Over Weekend [PICS & VIDEO]

      07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      The Global Marijuana March is a yearly event embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Around 700 different cities worldwide, including Cape Town, have signed up since 1999. This highly anticipated celebration took place over the weekend. How did Capetonian dagga supporters celebrate? Find out inside.

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    • Man Fighting For His Life After Court Shooting This Morning

      24 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 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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    • Photos Surface Of Local “Shark Whisperer” Tickling Great White [PICS]

      20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Yesterday bodyboarder David Lilienfeld suffered fatal injuries after being attacked by a shark near Cape Town. On the same day, several international websites also happened to run a feature on Andre Hartman, South Africa’s “Shark Whisperer”. Pictures of Hartman placing his hand on the snout of a great white shark and “putting it in a trance” were the main focus. See them inside.

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    • Cape Town Shark Victim, David Lilienfeld, Appears In Recent Bodyboarding Video [VIDEO]

      19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments

      South Africans have reacted with shock and disbelief over the tragic passing of bodyboarder David Lilienfeld earlier today. He suffered fatal injuries at popular surfing spot, Koeël Bay, near Gordons Bay. A 2oceansViber alerted us to a recent video, featuring David and some of his friends. Watch it inside.

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    • Shark Documentary Filming Permits Cancelled Following Tragic Death Of Bodyboarder

      19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 12 Comments

      Only a few hours have passed since Camps Bay bodyboarder, David Lilienfeld was fatally attacked by a Great White shark in Koeelbaai, near Cape Town. Less than two days ago, 2oceansvibe Reported the controversy around the awarding of filming permits to documentary film makers, who were chumming the water off the Cape Coast in a bid to attract Great Whites for tagging and filming purposes. At the time, Alan Boyd of the Department of Environmental Affairs defended the permits. Moments ago, in the wake of the tragedy, Boyd cancelled them.

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    • Two Separate Protests Rock Cape Town Communities Today

      05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      It’s Demonstration Monday, folks. Two protests, complete with some dramatic tire burning, blockaded roads and accusations of corruption, have occurred in different areas of Cape Town since this morning.

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    • Divorced Dad Appears In Court For CT School Shooting

      15 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Jealousy can make you crazy. And ex-es can be infuriating. The man who was killed yesterday afternoon outside St George’s Grammar in Mowbray was shot by the ex-husband of the woman he was engaged to. While there’s still uncertainty around why he resorted to pulling out a gun, it’s not hard to surmise there was no love lost between the fiance and the former husband.

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    • Newlands Kidnapping Report Is A Hoax

      10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Late yesterday afternoon, and once more in the early hours of this morning, the hashtag #kidnapping began trending locally on Twitter. Multiple tweets claimed that a child had been kidnapped from the leafy Cape Town suburb of Newlands, and a red VW City Golf Velocity with the registration STW048GP was identified as the getaway car. It has since been debunked as a hoax. More after the jump.

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    • Bronx Nightclub Owner Found Dead – Police Suspect Foul Play

      07 Feb 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments

      The owner of Bronx Nightclub, Bruno Bronn, was found dead in his Green Point home this afternoon. Eyewitness news published the following: His domestic worker made the discovery when she arrived for duty on Tuesday morning. The woman who discovered the man’s body is currently giving a statement to police. Speaking to Eyewitness News, one bystander said they […]

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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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    • Car Crashes Into Departures Hall At Cape Town International

      21 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment

      This just happened at Cape Town International Airport. For the older folk, that’s “DF Malan Airport.” We are not sure how this happened but assume it has something to do with the driver wanting to avoid the airport parking scam. Follow the link to enlarge the photograph. 

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    • Anything Goes In The Parallel Universe Of The Mill Street Engen

      07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments

      Regular readers and longtime citizens of Cape Town will be familiar with the Mill Street Engen garage, AKA “Club Orange”. A reader sent this photograph in this morning. Says Dean Delaney: Hey Seth, just wanted to share this little piece of brilliance with you. Stranger things have happened at the 24 hour Woolworths, I know, […]

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    • The Roof Is On Fire

      11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      The Euro Centres English Language School on the corner of Bree and Wale Streets in Cape Town, is on fire. Plumes of smoke could be seen from the high slopes of the City Bowl just after 13h00 on Friday. Paul Snodgrass, who was passing by at the time, submitted this photo.

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    • Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution from ivarad on Vimeo.

      The Occupy Revolution Has Hit South Africa

      07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments

      It looks like the tides that swept up the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign – ongoing after three weeks – have broken national boundaries; ‘Operation Ubuntu’ has been set up to launch a simultaneous protests on the 15th of October in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Grahamstown, as part of the global Occupy Revolution campaign.

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    • This Is Happening Right Now, On Corner Roeland And Buitenkant Street, Cape Town

      05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments

      Click to enlarge This is happening right now on the corner of Buitenkant and Roeland Street. If you’re in the city, you should get out onto the street, slap your shades on, and enjoy the timeless combination of fresh air and quality humour. And now from the side. Click to enlarge A thing of beauty. […]

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    • End Of The Month Salticrax Be Gone! Amazing Groupon Deal

      17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Today is the 17th of the month. Instinctively, you know that that means. The Petrol gauge is flirting with the wrong side of the half-mark. The improvised wine-collection is running dry. The packet of cigarettes is looking dangerously roomy, and the Salticrax are beginning to look more austere than opulent. And as the cash-coffers dry […]

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    • The Locnville Fight [VIDEO]

      10 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 13 Comments

      Here’s what you’ve all been waiting for: an intriguing eye witness description of the alleged fight that resulted in Brian Chaplin being maced in the face by police officers, also featuring a video of the aftermath of the widely-reported fight. Check it all out after the jump.

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    • Danny MacAskill Plays Capetown (complete video) from leica camera on Vimeo.

      Danny MacAskill Rips Up Cape Town On Two Wheels

      27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments

      “But this is CYCLING!”, I hear you blurt, rusk crumbs embedding themselves in your computer screen. “You guys don’t LIKE cyclists!” That said, Danny MacAskill is no prawn. He’s a stylish, skilled athlete, and he makes the infrastructure of our beloved city look oh-so-fine.

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    • Jack Friday – We Have A Winner! But Will We Be Able To Liberate Them?

      05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      That is correct. We have a Jack Friday winner! The Princess Emma – Winning! We know who you are. Tomorrow, we’re coming for you, and we’re getting you on a yacht, and we can do it nice and easy-like, or the hard way. That’s all up to your boss. So employers of Cape Town. Ready […]

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    • Probably The Most Important Thing You Will Read This Month

      22 Apr 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment

      2oceansvibe had to turn down business from two different brands this last week. A lot of the haters out there don’t realise that. They don’t think it happens. It does. Constantly. That is why the lovers keep coming back here – because any exposure for any brand is genuine and they don’t mind the advertising. […]

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    • Protesting: The Devil Is In The Detail

      14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      When you’re protesting for better working conditions, or any working conditions at all, really, it’s important to be specific in your demands. Well done to this gentleman, who appeared in this photograph on the front page of 13 April’s Argus. Be sure to read that sign he is holding.. The photograph related to a story […]

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    • The National Party Is Back – Can Like To Have Cape Town

      14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments

      The National Party is back, baby. Wake up and smell the freshly-opened emotional wounds, followed by a faint whiff of “too soon”. Their self-proclaimed goal is to unseat the DA in the forthcoming municipal elections. Good to see that they’ve developed a sense of humour in the wilderness of Democracy.

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    • Cape Advocate Swears At Judge – Full Transcript And Translation Here

      30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments

      Yesterday a little blue bird forwarded us a juicy document. That document is the full transcript of proceedings in a criminal case currently being argued in the Cape Town High Court. The transcript details an altercation between Judge Lee Bozalek and Advocate Nehemiah Ballem. And by “altercation” I mean a verbal smackdown. Enjoy this portion of the exchange.

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    • 2oceansvibe’s Overtures To The Mayor Are Snubbed

      18 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment

      Hear ye, hear ye! Today is Friday. You know what that means. That means that we knock off at 12h00. Do you know why we knock off at 12h00? Because we’re not lying to ourselves. “I”M NOT LYING TO MYSELF.” You shouldn’t either. No one is working productively after 12h00 on a Friday afternoon. The […]

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