Die Antwoord

According to me (and I’m sure thousands of other proudly South Africans), Die Antwoord is the next best thing to come out of South Africa. Not very popular with the more conservative side of our beautiful and diverse country; I have read some very heated comments on blogs all over the internet.

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FIFA tourists, don’t believe the hype!

I saw this really funny photo on Facebook and just had to add my two cents worth. Whether it is a joke or not, it does give you a kind of sickening feeling to the pit of your stomache. (after having a good laugh about it) This obviously has to do with the build up [...]

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South Africa, let’s look at the glass half-full

Lately there has been a lot of political upheaval here in South Africa again. Ol’ Julius Malema has been making a proper arse of himself nationally and internationally. First it started with his singing of the so-called “ANC freedom song”, “shoot the boer” and then the other night he chased an international journalist out of [...]

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The city with a chip of a mountain on it’s shoulder

Cape Town is a great place. We all know that. I just returned from a nice long holiday there. Cape Town has always struck me as a beautiful place with the mountains and the peninsula. In the past I never had an opportunity to stay over for long. I was always just in and out [...]

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Traffic Circles in PE

I don’t know what it is like in other parts of South Africa, or even the world, but here in Port Elizabeth it seems people have no idea how a traffic circle works. People this is not a 4 way stop! It does not work like a traffic light either. And NO, it is not [...]

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Google Maps Street View in PE

The Herald reported this morning that a vehicle marked with a Google Maps sign and a large metal frame with camera mounted on it’s roof has been spotted driving around Port Elizabeth. Google has been creating panoramic imagery taken at street level of major cities around the world. So far more than 100 metropolitan areas [...]

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Howard Marks aka Mr Nice

On 21 June I went to Cape Town to go see Howard Marks, aka Mr Nice. During the 80′s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines and 25 companies trading throughout the world.He came to South Africa to promote his latest book, titled, Senor Nice. Years ago I was introduced to Howard Marks through [...]

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Bloggers unite for Human Rights

Today the 15th of May bloggers all over the world have been challenged by Bloggers Unite to speak up on human rights. Here in South Africa human rights is still an ongoing battle. It seems the weight just gets shifted around instead of the problem getting solved. Fine a lot of people are doing a [...]

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Load shedding desktop application

I just had to let everybody know about this cool desktop application I discovered that helps you keep up to date with Eskom’s load shedding schedules. If you are from South Africa, this might just be the thing you were looking for. The application is very small and sits in your system tray once installed. [...]

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Web hosting on our new server

I have had a couple of gruelling days moving all my websites over to a new server. It has been nerve wrecking. It felt like the nameservers were never going to resolve. So now that we are happy with the new server, I have also put up some web hosting packages on our site, Black [...]

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