Four Cousins’ Blog

It’s a well-known fact that drinking a glass of red wine for dinner has benefits for your health. Started as a pop-culture myth, it was soon confirmed by doctors. Cardiologists, mainly, advise people to consume moderate quantities of red wine to prevent a number of heart diseases from developing.
Recently, more studies have been conducting, […]

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Las Vegas rock group The Killers, entertained South African crowds over the weekend and it seems that the poor organizing are over shadowing the bands performance.

Blogs and online debates indicate that the band gave an exceptional performance but the organising of these events came under scrutiny.
News24 reports that not everyone is happy with […]

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Springbok wing and immensely popular Bryan Habana has claim the top spot as South Africa’s favourite sports star by beating the likes of Makhaya Ntini, Teko Modise, Graeme Smith and Morne Steyn to the number one spot in 2009.

South Africans voted the Springbok wing their most popular sports star in the 21st BMI Adult Sporttrack […]

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Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee sprinter from South Africa, was cleared to race against able-bodied athletes in the Beijing Olympics a year and a half ago. Now, however, a new study argues that his prosthetic legs may give him an unfair advantage after all.

In a paper to be published Thursday in The Journal of Applied Physiology, […]

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Dumisani Ras, the singer the Springboks accused of butchering the anthem before the 20-13 Test match defeat to France, told AFP on Saturday that he thought he had “sung beautifully”.
By Monday morning however, Ras apologised to listeners of 702 Talk Radio for his performance, blaming an old microphone and monitor for the fiasco.
Meanwhile , Oregan […]

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Donald Trump is upgrading to a larger plane and put his personal jet up for sale yesterday.
The current jet, a 1968 Boeing 727 originally operated by American Airlines, is completely kitted out.

A plane like this usually has 134 seats but this plane was reconfigured to hold just 24 passengers in the lap of luxury.
It has […]

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The South African wine critic, Neil Pendock, who is one of the most influential personalities in the wine industry of South Africa has criticized the Michelangelo International Wine Awards for handing out more medals than they were allowed.

Pendock states that according to the strict rules of the OIV, a French body that polices wine […]

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Die uitgesproke Afrikaanse ikoon Steve Hofmeyr gee sy raad aan Joost van der Westhuizen na aanleiding van debakel waarin Joost homself bevind.

Steve skryf in Die Bugrer dat die media van nou af vir Joost en Amor geen tyd en emosionele spasie gun om te besin nie. Hy maak ook n paar roekelose “statements” , […]

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One of the world most famous travel guide, Lonely Planet, has put South Africa on one of the world top 10 places to travel.

This guide writes:
“South Africa is not only about an amazing climate, vast unspoilt scenery, balmy sandy beaches, extraordinary wildlife and adventure activities, but the cost of living is low, so it’s also […]

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It seems that the song Red, Red Wine has been around for forever. It is the song that made their fortunes, but chart veterans UB40 have revealed they are sick of Red, Red Wine.

The reggae act admit they are “bored to tears” of the track which became their first chart-topper in 1983, and they can’t […]

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