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Mr Nose: Heineken sues over Gallic  humour
Noiseweek Issue # 106 -August 2008
A South African who has the good fortune to spend his winters in France tells Mr Nose that that country, too, is happily endowed with its very own Justin Nurse: a T-shirt mocker called Thierry Boeuf.
Apparently Boeuf has been creating T-shirts which take the [...]

Last week Jou Ma se Purse pointed a finger at KFC, their abuse of the vrag ‘food tik’, MSG as an ingredient in their food, and the flak that they have gotten internationally for the conditions of the ‘broiler’ farms where they buy their chickens from. We had a great response from our Daily Voice [...]

Letter to the Editor, Daily Voice

Dear Sir,
Your readers deserve better than the inaccurate and defamatory article on KFC that you published on 8 December 2008.
That was not journalism; it was a deliberately biased assault on KFC in which your readers were denied the facts because the criticisms were not put to KFC or our [...]

Obzfest was what one would expect from a weekend at the end of another year that always seems to be a month too long. There was debauchery and depravity, and a sense of ‘where to from here?’ when the music ended. Like a bad Christmas office party, when they turn on the lights and people [...]

I chowed some KFC last week and an hour later felt even hungrier than before the meal. I tuned myself ‘nooit, it’s time Jou Ma se Purse investigates the Colonel, and his secret herbs and spices recipe wat my so hoender honger laat maak’. Forget ‘Finger lickin good’, KFC are ‘Finger Pointin Bad’! What I [...]

Gunmen terrorized Mumbai for more than two days, killing
at least 180 people during attacks at a train station, a
restaurant, two five-star hotels, a movie theater, a
hospital, a police station, and a Jewish center. At the
peak of the violence more than one tweet per second with
the word “Mumbai” was being posted to Twitter.com. Indian
authorities claimed there [...]

Judge Siraj speaks his mind:
Para 402 on p.195:
“I suppose anything is possible in the realm of ordinary human experience but the suggestion that the police would pay someone in these circumstances to wrongly implicate the innocent widow of a deceased, is clearly untenable.”
Para 437 on p.209:
“The evidence viewed in its totality ineluctably points to the [...]

Laugh it Off loves judges. They’re so judgmental. And if you’re not a little judgmental, you end up suffering fools. And there is no bigger fool than Najwa.
Here’s the lowdown on Judge Siraj Desai’s sound reasoning for sending her to the big house…
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Howzit, we’re gearing up for Obz Fest this weekend. Check out the presser below. If you want to find us we’ll be on the Village Green, right next to the bar…
The Festival 2008
The biggest street festival in South Africa is growing, developing into a dynamic creative celebration that the entire city can be proud of. [...]