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In most cases of wild animal attacks on humans the victim has been heard saying, “He attacked me for no reason!” This is not entirely true. The animal attacked you because it is wild and no matter how socialized or domesticated you think a wild animal is, in its heart it will always remain wild. Just ask Charla Nash, Dawn Brancheau and Roy Horn... Read More

Kevin Richardson wasn’t always the Lion Whisperer. Before a video of him playfully wrestling with lions endeared him to millions of YouTube viewers around the world, he was simply a kid from Orange Grove, north of Jozi, with a “certain wildness” about him. Read More

Just in time for that little tournament we’re hosting, Gtribe takes a look at eight classic instances when the beautiful game went bananas! Read More

This is not a passage from a Stephen King novel, this is what happened to Alison Botha (then 27 years old) in July 1994 after Frans Du Toit (27) and Theuns Kruger (19) kidnapped her from outside her flat in Port Elizabeth, drove her to the secluded Main Beach Rd, raped her, then stabbed her repeatedly in the abdomen, disemboweling her, and finally slit her throat 16 times! Read More

At the turn of the 1900s, freak shows were as popular as Jerry Springer and People magazine are today people were just less shy about calling the objects of their fascination “freaks”. In the United States, vaudeville shows variety entertainment featuring a mishmash of magicians, singers, contortionists, dancers, medical freaks, healers and mediums – were in their ascendancy. Read More

The search for musicians who’ve turned their backs on fame is not a hard one. Kate Pierson of The B52s now runs a motel in New York with her girlfriend. Kate Bush only appears to media when she has a new album to flog. Andrew Ridgeley (better known as “the other one” from Wham!) lives on a 15th century farm in Cornwall, England with co-reclusive ex-musician Keren Woodward (of Bananarama fame), where he does charitable work to stop raw sewage being poured into the sea. Se-ri-aas. Read More

There’s the sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) sufferer who washes their hands 300 times a day and completes 25-step rituals before leaving the house and then there’s Howard Hughes. Now this was a Texan tycoon straight out of Dynasty. Read More

Some people find fame only to spend their time trying to lose it all over again. But how easy is it to fade into the mists of obscurity? Here are four types of celebrities who seem to find the old sunglasses-andhat trick limiting... Read More

Authors are not known to be the biggest media whores in the celebrity pool. Still, most emerge out of a period of fevered, secluded writing to punt their latest bestseller on Oprah, collect the dollars and drink in the admiration with the free Moët before going back to “begin” for their next novel. Read More

City living, huh? Just you and 50 000 of your neighbours all behind your own electric fences. If you’re looking to connect, here are some tribesyou might like to join and how to crack the nod. Read More

Common in South Africa and other lands blessed with rich coastline, scuba divers are an intriguing breed: they combine the apparent lackadaisicalness and indifference of surfers with a complicated, difficult-to-learn and potentially lethal adventure sport. That makes them cool in our book. Here’s the skinny... Read More

Joining the Gay Tribe has a few stringent requirements, like: being ridiculously well-dressed; having ‘It’s Raining Men’ as your ringtone, oh and liking, loving, dating or being married to a person of the same gender as you. It’s easy! Read More

The Parlotones are the biggest selling and most awarded band in South Africa and have recently set off on their most extensive world tour ever! But not before front man Kahn Morebee reflected on some of his most significant life firsts … Read More

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