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World Cup 2010: Outrage and Denial of German football players’ bulletproof vest advice

Germany's national team has been advised to wear bullet-proof vests if they leave the the team hotel at next year's tournament in South Africa. The outrage in South Africa was enourmous. The 2010 Committee has strongly condemned the German security fears.

German Foreign Policy: No English, please

Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s newly designated foreign minister, refused to answer a question in English for a BBC reporter during his first press conference after the election.

South African Arrogance: Better than the Measly Remainder

South Africa’s most prominent vlogger Khaya talks about how strange and ignorant it is for him, as a South African, to be talking about visiting “Africa” when leaving South Africa for any other African country. Thought-provoking stuff: As Namibians (and by the way ex-South Africans for anybody older than 19) , we know exactly what he is [...]

Obama in Nazi Concentration Camp: Reminder also to some African leaders

Flanked by Nobel peace price winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama visited the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in eastern Germany yesterday. Obama listened to Wiesel’s recollections of camp life. He laid a white rose at a memorial plaque for the camp’s more than 56,000 victims before taking a [...]

German Exhibit of Corpses having Sex causes Scandal — with Her on Top!

The controversial scientist Gunther von Hagens and his plastination exhibitions triggered another media scandal in Germany today. The 64-year-old plastinator, who invented his own method of preserving living tissue, loves controversy to stir interest in his shows (which made him rich).  His representation of a pregnant woman with an opened uterus caused outrage in 2001. Now [...]

Namibia in the German Press: Taste of African Gemütlichkeit

An article by the dpa, the German press agency, about Germans in Namibia, which appeared in almost every German newspaper (for example, check the identical versions on n-tv.de or Spiegel.de), was now translated by “The Local“.  The article focusses about how Namibia has become (strangely) popular in Germany in recent years and how German tourists flock to Namibia [...]

60 years Human Rights — featuring Ahmadinejad

A great motive by leading German ad agency Scholz & Friends to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declararation of Human Rights last year. The ad was featured at the award ceremony 2009 of the Art Directors Club of Germany in Berlin over the weekend. Greetings to you, Mr. Islam-Fascist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! There are so many more [...]

German Mao Condom ad campaign: Chinese outrage uncalled for

A German condom campaign showing Hitler, Bin Laden and revolutionary leader Mao Zedong as human spermatozoids has sparked ferocious protests from China. China’s official media and bloggers called for the makers of the advert to apologise to China. Apparently advertising agency Grey Worldwide, which made the safe sex advert for Doc Morris Pharmacies, already sent a [...]

German Amazon Hack: Even German sexuality is not that weird

The other day I had blogged about the Anglo-American presumption that Germanic sexuality was, to say the least, problematic. This rumour has now been buttressed by solid evidence on Amazon Germany — or so it seems! As Rene Seifert discovered yesterday, Amazon book searches have been returning amazing results for the last couple of days. For [...]

Black Coffee wins Mercedes-Benz Art Award: Fashion from South Africa in the German spotlight

Fashion design ruled this year’s Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art and Culture. The distinctive feature of this award is that it has been awarded in a different artistic discipline each year. The fashion label “Black Coffee” from Johannesburg has now been chosen as the winner for 2009. Yeah! According to the prominent jury, the works [...]

Deadly Floods in Namibia: NASA releases Satellite Images of Caprivi Strip

In the north of Namibia flooding during the rainy season is quite normal.  The locals call it “Efundja”, which is the Oshiwambo word for “Flood”, e.g. Efundja laNoah (Noah’s flood).  But in recent weeks heavy rains have caused a catastrophe. According to authorities, the Zambezi river has reached the highest water levels in 40 years. [...]

Mugabes Socialist Paradise lost: Worthless Money Wallpaper

For the refugees from Robbie Mugabe’s socialist paradise in mortal agony, the newspaper  The Zimbabwean is the leading medium. The editors of the newspaper sit in England, their critical stance would be life threatening at home.  With a cool outdoor campaign in Zimbabwe itself, the newspaper is currently making headlines:  The economic madness in Zimbabwe is unspeakable. But [...]

Charlotte Roche makes Germanic Sexuality weird again: South Africans sigh with relief

Until the 80s and even far into the 90s of the last century, pornography was totally and utterly banned by the prudish South African “boer” government. Completely “verboten”, even in men’s magazines like the famous “Scope Magazine“,  no nipple nor naked bum was to be admired, everything spicy was covered with black bars [...]

Zuma gets Bionic Shower Head: Revolutionary Implant fosters Chinese-African Relations

Jacob Zuma, the leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) – and likely next president of South Africa — has finally received a shower head implant on the back of his head to reduce his risk of contracting HIV infection after having sex with his followers. The leading surgeons of China successfully transplanted the bionic [...]

Tourism and Travel: Namibia is safe and clean by African standards

Now please take a second to marvel at this fantastic piece of PR for the Namibian tourism industry by the San Francisco Chronicle in its article “Cycling through wild Namibia“: Namibia is safe and clean by African standards. But getting around can be costly or time-consuming in a giant sandbox twice the size of California with [...]