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Nonhle vs DJ Fresh

Nonhle Thema is famous for tweeting outrageous things at suspiciously early hours of the morning. Here are a few...

posted on: Feb 1, 2012 | author: Chris

Zombie flash mob vid

Filmed a random Zombie flash mob on rollerblades, in Madrid on Halloween...

posted on: Nov 7, 2011 | author: Chris

Congrats! You’re my 1 trilliont...

A momentous occasion in the history of the interwebs. All over the world, websites have simultaneously hit 1 million...

posted on: Jul 20, 2011 | author: Chris

Bought in Buenos Aires

I thought it’d be fun to post some of the ridiculous things I bought in Buenos Aires last week. Amazing the...

posted on: Nov 7, 2010 | author: Chris

The UP Assignment

Hello, Potential People of the Media Tribunal This is your assignment. It has no specified length – that’s...

posted on: Sep 29, 2010 | author: Chris

How to drink wine

Received a press release from the strangely named Hot Salsa Media (boy, all the good names really are taken), praising...

posted on: Sep 7, 2010 | author: Chris

‘It was a dark and stormy night...

For my second lecture to the absolutely delightful, if a little smelly, University of Pretoria journalism students,...

posted on: Sep 3, 2010 | author: Chris

Tanzania’s AMLC

I don’t normally put up press releases, but since I’m involved in this conference, I thought you might be...

posted on: Sep 2, 2010 | author: Chris

The Dancing Striker

I know I shouldn’t lampoon people striking for a (barely) living wage, but really, this woman’s...

posted on: Aug 19, 2010 | author: Chris

Same old, same old

Governments change, but the lying bastards stay the same. Compare a cover from the Weekly Mail of July 26, 1991 with...

posted on: May 14, 2010 | author: Chris

ANCYL ‘Lousy’

I know, I know – shouldn’t be giving column inches to the idiot ANCYL-biters. But what’s with this...

posted on: May 2, 2010 | author: Chris

#SpeakZA Blogroll

This just in: ANCYL responds to #SpeakZA Bloggers For a Free Press Last week, shocking revelations concerning the...

posted on: Mar 24, 2010 | author: Chris

Journos vs ANCYL

COMPLAINT AGAINST THE ANC YOUTH LEAGUE We wish to lodge a formal complaint against ANC youth league spokesman Floyd...

posted on: Mar 22, 2010 | author: Chris

Foreign Press

So I’m with a bunch of journalists, editors, bloggers and general press people on a tour that encompasses social...

posted on: Feb 23, 2010 | author: Chris

NIgerians, so forth!

Ha ha! Ha ha ha! My people, my people. You are sick. But damn funny. —– Forwarded Message From: louise...

posted on: Feb 19, 2010 | author: Chris

M&G kills kid!

Making fun of Jacob Zuma has become as unsatisfying as picking on his mini-me, Juju Malema. Can it be true that the...

posted on: Feb 4, 2010 | author: Chris

MTN of Truth

This is damnably funny, in a Kafka meets Mel Miller kind of way. Someone sent this copy of an MTN email, which reads...

posted on: Feb 2, 2010 | author: Chris

Spam love

Has anyone ever written a scifi story about falling in love with a spambot? Someone should. This cheerful little...