Gareth Cliff

After the response to the "Social Media Rate card" of popular radio DJ Gareth Cliff, key questions have arisen about how people and companies disclose their advertising relationships on social network platforms.Of course anyone, including Cliff, are in their rights to advertise products via "word-of-mouth" to their Twitter followers or ...

When radio jock and Idols judge Gareth Cliff describes Playboy magazine on his Facebook page as “classy” and “riveting”, does he mean it — or is he being paid to say it?A good word from Gareth Cliff could cost you R20 000, but his 400 000 Facebook friends and ...

With very little fanfare, the office of the South African Presidency, in a fitting move -- not via a press-conference or a press release but via a tweet - announced that Jacob Zuma had joined Twitter. His first, and at the time of writing, only tweet was:His "lack of activity" ...

News of the re-arrest of convicted fraudster and former businessman Schabir Shaik has spread like wildfire across popular microblogging social network Twitter with "Schabir Shaik" currently a trending topic worldwide.Tweets have been pouring in following the breaking news with a majority of users in favor of the re-arrest, some sarcastic ...

Recently a video of a young South African boy playing guitar and singing "These Arms" by All 4 One went viral on YouTube. Not much later, Sony International sends down a team to South Africa to find the kid and make all his dreams come true.But no one can find ...

The State of the Nation address delivered by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday evening, and the drinking game that accompanied it, was Twitter's number one trending topic early on Friday morning. Renowned blogger Khaya Dlanga and South African radio shock jock Gareth Cliff had a big hand in spreading the ...

Old Spin Guy, the ZANews puppet of President Jacob Zuma, posted his first video response online to 5FM's controversial morning DJ Gareth Cliff early on Friday morning. Pulling no punches, the President starts off by calling Cliff "@poster boy, white-supremacist" before launching into his tongue-in-cheek character assassination.Social media seems ...

According to a recent report, 5fm radio DJ Gareth Cliff is one of the most-talked about personalities in the South African Twittersphere. With the “shock-jock” also ranking among the top three Twitter users with the most followers in the country, Memeburn.com put a few questions to the often-controversial Cliff to ...