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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would have me believe that mine is 3,536,155,740. They also suggest that someone will claim the number 7,000,000,000 sometime during today. 7 billion people. That’s a lot of humanity. And a milestone...
We don’t know who started it, nor why. But a uniquely South African Twitter trend has gone global. Edit – We do know now: It all began with local musical comedian Daniel Friedman, popularly and Twitterly know as @Deepfriedman who tweeted:...
The reoccurring arms deal investigation saga has got my brain spinning…Why with so much smoke is a fire not being investigated? Just GOOGLE the term and see how many articles there are about it….. Saab admits secret arms-deal payments...
In the column (“Haffajee does it for white masters”) that got him axed from the Sowetan, Eric Miyeni suggests that City Press editor Ferial Haffajee allowed the publication in her newspaper of a series of articles disclosing the questionable...
A leaked secret surveillance image secured exclusively by The BlaBla Blog shows how US National Security Agency, Defence Operatives and CIA Agents confirmed the location of Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout. Turns out that initial suspicions...
We’d love to take credit for hacking the ANCYL web site, but we cant. It wasn’t us. Promise. Yesterday delivered much online mirth at the expense of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) when they discovered that their website...
It’s been quite a year here on planet Earth. And although we couldn’t have stopped the Earth from rumbling or have pulled back the waters to where they belong there is a small difference that we can make. We can switch off our lights...
11 March 2011, 13 year old Rebecca Black uploads the new music video for her song “Friday” and wakes up the next morning to find that her video received a few hundred thousand views overnight! What she didn’t realize at that point was...
The waters of the Chicago River are dyed green in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day (2005) [Is anyone able to confirm if this tradition is still being followed in Chi-Town?] St. Patrick’s Day Named after Saint Patrick (c. AD 387–461),...
Our esteemed editor in chief should be safely on the ground in Cape Town by know. He has taken his Mrs. as well as their lovely daughter to see U2 in Cape Town (thanks for the offer on the spare ticket by the way). I wish them a good time. Please...
The Arrival For anyone planning on camping out the night before the U2 concert in Cape Town, here are some valuable observations from my experience camping out for the Jhb concert. We were armed with knowledge about the Inner Circle thanks to...
South African photographer Jodi Bieber has just been announced as the winner of the prestigious annual Press Photo of the Year. The award was made for her provocative and haunting image of Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan woman brutally disfigured...
On Thursday we challenged our readers to get BORN FREES to register for the upcoming local government elections. Being registration weekend I was hopeful we would have a positive response….I was not prepared for what happened next…. I...
We all love a good challenge don’t we……….So here goes a challenge for you. I challenge you to get one, or more, unregistered VOTER! registered this weekend for the upcoming Local Government Elections. Voter registration...
The eNews Channel carried a brief information note this morning that suggested the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was concerned about the low number of newly-eligible young voters in South Africa who have registered to vote. If memory...
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