Monthly Archives: February 2010

After months of negativity

By 6000 | 6000 | February 28, 2010

As I sit here by the braai, with a locally-brewed wife and beer by my side, I am filled with hope, positivity and optimism about the future here in SA. And, for once, it seems I’m not the only one. After a wholly-unsolicited ‘I’m going out of my way to tell your viewers this’ quote [...]

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Wedded bliss

By 6000 | 6000 | February 27, 2010

We’re off to a wedding this afternoon. Attending weddings is becoming a more unusual pastime as most of our friends have already tied the knot already. In fact, I’ve had to have a scroll through Flickr to try and work out when the last one was. It turns out that it was nearly two years ago [...]

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Helen talks mainly sense

By 6000 | 6000 | February 26, 2010

Grand Emperor of the Western Cape, Helen Zille has been talking up a storm after a police briefing on World Cup security. She warned of the dangers of sensationalist media and their attempts to stoke up negative sentiment about the country and the tournament. Well said, Helen. We warned you about that over 3 months ago. “There [...]

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A Day of Twitter in South Africa

By 6000 | 6000 | February 25, 2010

There have always been a lot of discussions about the use of social media service twitter in South Africa. Apparently allegedly, there are those who tweet too much, over-utilising and polluting the service and there are those under-utilisers who tweet too little. Then there are the ones that use it for work – the creative [...]

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Kortbroek goes probing

By 6000 | 6000 | February 24, 2010

News in this morning’s Cape Times that Marthinus Christoffel Johannes van Kortbroek, South African Minister for Tourism has demanded a probe into allegations that some accommodation providers are hiking prices excessively for the World Cup. “We have noted allegations that accommodation establishments in the tourism industry are not responsible, and are inflating prices excessively,” van [...]

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