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You might have seen my post earlier announcing the new South Africa Streetview on maps.google.com. But have you seen the 3D View? Yup, how insane is that? How do you activate it? – Well, firstly you go to maps.google.com – Search for the street in Cape Town you’re looking for. – Then Drag the orange [...]

If you don’t already know about my extreme “AppleLust” I suggest you read my “I got 73 Apps but a iPhone I got none” blogpost. Then Mike showed me Web Africa’s latest Facebook online Campaign. You have got to check it out here. Now here’s the BOMBSHELL. They are giving away iPADs. What?! You heard [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As a follow up to the Greenpoint Fan walk Blog post, this photo essay shows the displays inside the Greenpoint Visitor Centre. The history of soccer on the Greenpoint   common goes back decades and the visitor centre pays homage to the amazing teams to have won at Greenpoint. With the proposed renaming of Greenpoint Stadium [...]

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 enjoying the awesomeness that is District 9 I was expecting more bloggers to post and tweet about it. A new site www.wikus.co.za kicks off the craze with images like the one below. Watch out Vernon Koekemoer, here comes Wikus van der Merve. Thanks to Baldricman and Stii for the link Now we await the [...]

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 [...]

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 never [...]