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On Tuesday I joined a group of bloggers on a tour of Fire ID and Mxit, who are both based in the Stellenbosch Techno Park. The Tour was arranged by Dave Duarte, known for amongst other  things the hugely popular 27 Dinners
FireID are a hugely successful and proudly South African Startup mentored by Justin Stanford [...]

Cape Town is about to welcome another 5 Star Hotel and Spa to grace our already illustrious line up.
On the 25th of January the doors will open to this stunning Hotel.
I was Part of the Cape Town Tourism team that went on a Preview Tour today. The variety of Restaurants, conference venues and exquisite suites [...]

Cape Town is generally regarded as the Gay Capital of South Africa. I spoke about it in the Gay Tourism article here.
So, inform yourself and learn a few words from this unofficial 12th language
THE GAYLE

Ursula: Understand / Know
Bag: Man / Boyfriend
Gerty: Girl / Woman
Fish/Vis: same as above
Wendy: White
Chlora: Coloured
Natalie: Black
Indera: Indian
Molly: Muslim
Nancy: No
Sheila: Shit
Gayle: Talk [...]

A beautiful video by SA Tourism with inspiring visuals of South Africa to the voiceover of Thabo Mbeki’s “I am an African” Parliament speech.
It WILL give you goosebumps.

After watching District 9 I was planning to write a post as to why every South African should see the movie.
Then I saw saw a great post on Mike Stopforth’s site (Who funnily has the same theme as I do) listing his 9 reasons to see the flick.
9 reasons to go see District 9 (Mike [...]

Cape Town Routed Unlimited yesterday hosted a walk along the 2010 Soccer world cup Fan walk. This route is the expected way in which the city plans pedestrians take to the Greenpoint Stadium after they have commuted to the city via public transport during the 2010 Soccer worldcup. There are 6 Points of interest along [...]

District 6, the word reverberates to my core, for reasons I’m unsure myself. Its significance perhaps already lost to my generation. I have no memories of District 6 other than the glimmer in the eyes of those who tell tales of its glory. Stories of Fish Market, the seven steps and the gangsters who [...]

I really cant wait to see this movie, although I have already told myself that it probably wont be the best movie I’ve ever seen. It will however be the best South African movie I’ve seen in a long time.
Costing $30 Million to make the movie has already made a profit in it’s opening weekend [...]