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Cape Town parties as Anele moves on…

By 6000 | 6000 | February 23, 2012

CAPE TOWN: People partied in the streets of the Mother City until the early hours of this morning as news broke that DJ Anele Mdoda was to move from 5FM back to Highveld Stereo, following the ever-popular Sasha Martinengo out of the national broadcaster. Anele will be joining other hilarious celebrity presenters at Highveld such [...]

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GooGull

By 6000 | 6000 | February 22, 2012

Spotted this via a friend on Facebook: Artist Jon Rafman’s photo project The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, named after the nine lenses mounted on a Google Street View car, collects the strange and beautiful images they capture by accident from around the world. Slightly different from the previous Steetview art project that we featured [...]

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Bunny in a Box

By 6000 | 6000 | February 17, 2012

Filing this one under “only in Africa”. The SPCA is to investigate a scheme in which live rabbits would be sold with loaves of bread for consumption to people living in townships. This after a packaging company tipped off the anti-animal cruelty organisation following the most “bizarre” quote they had received. And exactly what was [...]

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Sasha Martinengo to leave 5fm – The (un)official press release

By 6000 | 6000 | February 8, 2012

GET MORE amusing and satirical posts like this one: LIKE the 6000.co.za Facebook page. There was much chatter yesterday on the social networks and then today came the confirmation that DJ Sasha Martinengo will be leaving 5FM at the end of March, after being with the station for 17 years. Here’s what their press release [...]

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Recursive self destruction

By 6000 | 6000 | February 7, 2012

I loved Charlie Brooker’s column in Guardian this past weekend, detailing what came to pass when that bast… ion of quality journalism and long-time favourite newspaper of this blog, the Daily Mail, published a story alleging that right-wingers are less intelligent than left-wingers. Despite their disclaimer, labelling the study as “controversial”, what followed – as Brooker points [...]

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