Danie Krugel expands his imaginary product line

Bloemfontein’s favourite son is at it again, folks. His new product is a mysterious device capable of detecting a substance at a distance provided it is given a sample of that substance…. hang on a second, isn’t this his last product, you ask? Oh no, this time the substance being detected is cancer, so it’s [...]

Wired’s 10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets

Wired lists 10 gadgets that are guaranteed to detect nothing but gullibility, prevent nothing if not common sense, and teleport nothing but money out of your pockets. Dubious honour is given to our own Danie Krugel, where he is placed amongst his deserved brethren, such as Steorn Ltd and their ‘free-energy’ machine Orbo, $485 wooden [...]

Bones found near Van Rooyen’s house

In the papers this week:
Material suspected to be human bones have been unearthed at a home in Capital Park, next door to the home of paedophile Gert van Rooyen, Pretoria police said on Wednesday.
Captain Percy Morokane said the owners of the home were installing a swimming pool when the discovery was made on Tuesday evening.
They [...]

KFM breakfast team: not skeptics

I wake up every morning to the KFM breakfast brigade doing their thing. It’s not bad as breakfast shows go – Nic is usually not a complete idiot, Mel is fairly silly in an endearing way, and the GK Elite challenge is about the only thing that can wake me up in the morning. Zenstar [...]

Observer retracts Danie Krugel story… sort of

Well, at any rate Stephen Pritchard from the Reader’s Editor column has bothered to correct certain factual errors in the original article, such as that Krugel is not a scientist, and that he didn’t find the Van Rooyen girls. In summary,
[The reporters] now both agree that, at the very least, the piece should not have [...]

Danie Krugel: International Man of Mystery

Danie has finally done what he promised me back in January: broken onto the international scene with big news in major newspapers. I believe at the time he told me, he was expecting the Van Rooyen spectacle with Carte Blanche to pan out and the girls to be found, and we all know how that [...]

3rd Degree win journalism award by falling for local con

In more news of our friend Danie Krugel: it seems that Vodacom, in their infinite wisdom, have awarded etv’s show 3rd Degree the Journalist of the Year Award 2007 (region: Bloemfontein, category: TV Feature), for their piece on Danie Krugel. And no, this would not be an investigative journalism piece where they show him [...]

Pseudoscientists, Psychics, and Pop Psychologists: Danie Krugel resurfaces on Carte Blanche

I don’t have MNet, so it was certainly interesting to discover that Danie Krugel had appeared on Carte Blanche again last night, by a sudden slew of new comments on old posts on the subject.
Yes indeed, it appears Danie was on Carte Blanche, and the formerly-respectable magazine show has sunk to new lows with this [...]

Find Madeleine McCann

On May 3, Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s hotel room while they were on holiday in Portugal. Police believe that she was abducted.

If you have seen this girl, or have any information about her whereabouts, please contact: +351 289 884 500, + 351 282 405 400, +351 218 641 000
You can follow the [...]

Danie Krugel: Officially a Liar?

Some of you may recall that in January, Danie Krugel – erstwhile inventor of a device that can supposedly find anyone, anywhere, with merely a snippet of their hair – made a promise to me:
Danie also made a deal with me: in the next three months, there will be some big event regarding his device. [...]