Category Archives: this is south africa

Squirting Sunshine

By 6000 | 6000 | June 18, 2011

Although the weather today made it seem like we might have made the wrong decision on this weekend: …everyone is talking about what’s coming tomorrow and for the week ahead, namely the gale force winds (66kph) and the unusually cold (12C) weather. We’ll survive.

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Important Youth issues tackled

By 6000 | 6000 | June 17, 2011

With yesterday being Youth Day here in South Africa, youths have been very much in the news. It’s only right that the Youth should have their own day when one looks at the sacrifices made in Soweto in 1976. And the Youth of today still face a huge number of challenges, so what better plan [...]

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Heart v Head

By 6000 | 6000 | June 16, 2011

I desperately want(ed) to get down to the coast this weekend. The weather this week has been atrocious (once we’d got past Tuesday with its ridiculous midwinter 30 degreedness) and the wind has whipped up some epic swells around the South African coast. The weather service were warning of 7m off Agulhas. Yummy. I love [...]

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Numb

By 6000 | 6000 | June 14, 2011

From the sublime to the ridiculous. Considering we’re approaching midwinter, Cape Town’s Tuesday started so beautifully this morning. I was compelled to pull over on Rhodes Avenue and point my phone at the sun. Now, 14 hours later, winter has returned and I find myself hiding under the duvet wondering if my roof will survive [...]

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Shaik: In of uit?

By 6000 | 6000 | June 13, 2011

Incoming from bizcommunity.com: Draftfcb Cape Town ‘Shaiks’ things up in the Mother City with this proactive piece it recently developed for Die Burger to emphasise the newspaper’s pay-off line, ‘Praat Saam’, which loosely translates as ‘join the conversation’. Posters of convicted fraudster, Schabir Shaik, who has been in and out of jail a number of [...]

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