Shrien Dewani’s multi-week tenure at Priory Hospital for treatment following a suicide attempt, has come to an end. Dewani has been moved to a “stricter” mental health facility, after he engaged in a “heated discussion” with a female patient.
An overly tense Sam Jackson was not present on Saturday when over 600 snakes were discovered in the luggage compartment of a bus, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
And this time the target is Richard Mdluli, who has been indicted for murder, along with a slue of other charges. He also happens to be South Africa’s crime intelligence boss. I can see how this is problematic. Please enjoy.
Well this is probably just the cherry on the big ol’ authoritarian cake they got going on over there, but hot damn. All the best movies had time travel in them. Never mind the fact that now a generation of Chinese kids won’t spend every waking moment waiting for their future selves to arrive in a DeLorean.
It seems it’s all the rage to voice ones displeasure with how one finds things are going in court these days. Instead of it being an advocate this time, it’s a 71 year old “Brett Kebble-type character” from the Strand near Cape Town facing fraud charges. He had recently celebrated his 71st in Pollsmoor too.
South African scientists are responsible for an ingenious method for fighting ATM bombing and cash-in-transit heists. It involves polyurethane foam, which hardens in a minute. Used with the ‘Pudu’ – a polyurethane foam dispensing unit – this hardening ability also makes it much harder for robbers to get away with our cash. Clever, hey?
It seems this is a common problem that the US Naval Academy faces. Another midshipman was expelled from the force for using or having a banned weed-like substance known as “spice”. No spice. This brings the total number of expulsions to 12.
Two vegans who fed their 11 month old daughter only on her mother’s breast milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday. They have been charged with neglect after their baby died as a result of suffering from vitamin deficiencies and could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
South Africa’s head honcho of crime intelligence, Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli, has appeared at the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court today facing a number of criminal charges including kidnapping and murder. In the same vein as, say, robbers locking up police, there’s something wrong with this picture, no?
Joseph Ntshongwana, a former Blue Bulls flanker and Barbarians player, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court today in connection with a series of gruesome axe murders in the city, according to reports.
Three robbers enter a police station, lock up the officers on duty and steal a whole lot of stuff. There is no punchline. This happened in the early hours of this morning in the Eastern Cape.
I’m all for advances in alternative medicine but this is a little too alternative. A German doctor has been found guilty of endangering the lives of 25 patients due to his highly eccentric methodologies which included using lemon juice to sterilise his surgical procedures.
Long, long ago, being accused of witchcraft and getting burnt at the stake was all just part of growing up, and something you’d just have to contend with. But far from being resigned to the past, witchcraft rears it’s ugly head in our modern midst.
If you say the word ‘protest’ too frequently in a cell-phone conversation in Beijing, your call gets cut off. No spice. We have pretty strict phone etiquette policies here at 2ov, granted, but generally we allow calls, once placed, to proceed without Big Brother intervention.
On Friday we discussed what the no-fly zone over Libya meant and how it would be placed into effect by the international community. “But the UN resolution is limited in its scope. It explicitly does not provide legal authority for action to bring about Gaddafi’s removal from power by military means,” explained UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
Aside from the shit literally hitting the fan, let’s break this down and look at what it’s going to mean for the nation that is embroiled in one of the worst struggles against a dictator in history.
Like they say, it’s always fun for two males to play “vampire” with each other – until one gets stabbed with a knife for not wanting to play anymore. I have a feeling “playing vampire” might be slang for something else…
A grade 1 teacher from the Orchards Primary School just outside Centurion in Gauteng has been suspended by the schools governing body after pupils claim she called them k*****s. She now also faces a disciplinary hearing next week. Apparently she also called them “black monkeys”. But, has she been levelled with false accusations?
Gauteng’s top brass are being flushed out again for misappropriation of taxpayers’ money. This time it’s totalling a little over R12 million since 2005 on lavish refurbishments and renovations to the official Bryanston residence of the Gauteng Premier.
A 52 year old woman was arrested in the middle-class suburb of Kenilworth, Cape Town, for dealing in drugs on Monday. She is not alone in her entrepreneurial endeavors. It seems a growing number of grannies are entering the underworld and deceiving the greater public of their criminal tendencies.
Kobus du Plessis gave his daughter a Winnie The Pooh umbrella he bought for her fifth birthday. The thing is, she’s not five, she’s fifteen. The Durban policeman had tracked down his 15-year-old daughter Zandrea and her sister, Leonie, 18 after their mother vanished overseas with them ten years ago. Check this out.
You may or may not have noticed the Sunday Times front cover yesterday. The headline was gripping and revealing. One usually sees this when tabloids have a secret they’re unable to keep. This time however, tabloids aside, the headline had every right to froth in its very large font. Behold: “Shaik In Mosque Punch-Up”
The Ugandan Media are famous for their outrageous homophobia. Please enjoy the latest flaming, pucker-lipped homosexual red flag leaked from Africa’s most sexually awkward nation. Incredible, actually-published one-liners after the jump.
Saeed Yare is a dollar multi-millionaire and I am not. The difference between us: I am but a lowly writer and he is a pirate.
We love a good mug shot here over at 2oceansvibe. Paris Hilton’s array still being amongst our favourites, admittedly, but this dude is rolling with quite a mesmerising vibe. Half a ‘fro actually. We’re sure there’ll be a couple of guys on the inside having a good laugh at his expense.
Top management in our extremely effective police force were asked yesterday in Parliament how they happened to lose 20 429 weapons. Click through for facepalming disappointment.
Fearing for his life, Mr. Timothy James Chapek locked himself in the bathroom of a house he’d broken into and dialed 911. He told the operator that he had broken into the house and that he was afraid that the owner may have a gun.
In what has got to be an all-time low for human nature, people in the township of Umlazi in KwaZulu Natal have to live in fear of being robbed of their anti-retroviral drugs. According to a BBC report, gangs in the settlement are mugging people for their ARVs, which they then use to lace joints, apparently to increase their high.
This has Blood Diamond 2 written all over it. In fact I’m going to tweet DiCaprio about this just as soon as I finish writing this piece. Don’t you want to hear more of Danny Archer’s bru’s and boets too? Either way, this is a big diamond we are talking about.
Yesterday,social cyclists taking part in a Critical Mass event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, we’re struck and injured by a vehicle accelerating through the crowd of cyclists. How no one was killed in the process is mystifying, and the only bright spot on this whole affair. Police have arrested a suspect.