Hayibo.com closing down

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Yes, dear readers, it's hard to believe, perhaps even harder to believe than a sick note from Schabir Shaik's GP. But it's true. All good things must come to an end, and Hayibo.com is no different.

Today's newsletter is the final dollop of icky current affairs we'll be sending you, all the news that's unfit to print scraped off the gutter and smeared on your screens one last time, and Friday will be our final update.

We would have loved to rule the internet until Jesus returned, perhaps to witness the power-sharing deal the ANC will desperately try to broker, but alas the lifeblood of all websites, advertising, has never materialised. If we had a buck for everyone in Corporate South Africa who said, “I adore the site, I just don't want to associate my brand with it,” we could have retired. But we kind of understand: the people who are trying to convince us that you need to buy their soap to wash your dirty soap are clearly in the satire business too, so perhaps they see us competition.

All of which means we now need to go and do fun stuff like find paying jobs. And eating. Speaking of which, if you'd like to help us eat, why not vist our shop for old time's sake? We'll be leaving it open for a week or two so you can get your Christmas shopping done and save our families: at the moment it looks like they'll be getting Hayibo T-shirts and hoodies for every birthday and Christmas until 2035. Remember, you can have any Hayibo T couriered to you for R190, all inclusive.

But now, for one last time, let's do what we always did best: breaking the news – and our hearts – into lots of little pieces.


HAYIBO.COM
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Hayibo is Dying - About Time Too

Satirical current affairs website Hayibo.com has announced that Friday will be the last time they update the popular site.

In their final newsletter the team says that lack of advertising has forced them to close up shop. Despite its popularity, the newsletter states that many in "Corporate South Africa" are hesitant to link their brands to the website.
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I can't lie and say I'm going to miss them...good riddance IMO.
 
In all honesty, I found that the quality of the humour had gone down of late, nut it is still a pity.
 
boramk said:
Don't enjoy political satire or freedom of speech too much?
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No.. I love it. I just thought Hiabo was crap, also the often represented their articles as the truth and a lot of stupid people believed them as well.

I suppose its more of a comment on the crazy politics of SA or the knee jerk reactions of South Africans but I can't say I enjoyed their stuff.
 
Really sad, guess it's now time to buy a t-shirt, they'll be collectors items soon enough.
 
I love Political satire and they will be sorely missed.

For anybody who does not get Hayibo delivered to their inbox to say that they were rubbish, is just plain lack of knowledge.

It takes a particular skill to write satire, as well as a modicum of intelligence to understand it.

To call Hayibo crap is either incredibly arrogant and ill informed, or incredibly narrow minded and ill informed!
 
I think I will make a purchase from their shop..some of the stuff is actually pretty good.
 
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