Vernon Koekemoer having his 15MB of Fame

The saying used to be “15 minutes of fame”. Now, thanks to the online world, it’s 15MB of fame. Well, maybe even 15GB of fame thanks to broadband connections.

Everybody knows Chuck Norris, but if you’re South African and you’ve been online recently (or you’ve seen the latest Vodacom ad), then you might have heard of Vernon Koekemoer!

Who is Vernon Koekemoer?

His real name is Cassie Booyse, but that’s obviously not how South Africa knows him.

To rest of us, he’s Rambo Guy from H2O!

Why is he famous!

Good question.

Here are a few examples of his online fame:

- He’s appeared on Sky News

- He has his own Facebook profile

- He’s been interviewed on locally produced Kwela (anybody care to translate it?)

- He’s appearing on a lot of billboards as part of adverts (which you’ll see if you watch the above interview).

How did Vernon Koekemoer start?

All of this started thanks to a great photo apparently taken at the H2O rave.

Personally, I thought the photo was a fake.

But if you want to SEE fake photos of Vernon, go visit RamboGuy.co.za! He seriously is our own “little” Chuck Norris

Speaking of which, have you seen the latest Nandos ads with Vernon? There’s even one where he greets Chuck!!!

I really hope Vernon is getting something out of this. He seems like a nice enough guy.