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The Top 10 trending South African topics on Twitter are an indication of shifts in the news and chart the topics that are tweeted and re-tweeted the most. One of the Top 10 topics trending today is FW De Klerk who on 2 February 1990 unbanned the ANC, PAC, SACP and set South Africa on the path to a democracy along with rescinding the Media Emergency Regulations and other draconian acts. Here are some of the Twitteractions: The Last Trek: A New … [Read more...]
See what the Tweeters on the My Cape Town Tweeple Twitter list have been saying recently. If you are signed into Twitter you can reply to the Cape Town Tweeple featured right from this page. Follow @MyCapeTownza and we MAY add you to the My Cape Town Tweeple list. (Do you feel lucky?) If you are still confused about the world of Twitter then scroll on down past the tweets featured here to snag a primer to help clear that fog of confusion from our mates at Amazon … [Read more...]
A quick roundup of mentions of Cape Town in blogs and tweets around the world for Monday 28 November 2011 MyCapeTown provides this roundup in order to promote Cape Town and to encourage fellow bloggers and Twitterers to expand their coverage of Cape Town and surrounds. Personal safety in Cape Town | Emila Yusof Prior to my trip to Cape Town in July 2011, I did a research about how safe is Cape Town. From what I read, mostly from personal encounters, … [Read more...]
A quick roundup of mentions of Cape Town in blogs and tweets around the world for Monday 15 August 2011 MyCapeTown provides this roundup in order to promote Cape Town and to encourage fellow bloggers and Twitterers to expand their coverage of Cape Town and surrounds. Cape Town tourism, 200 businesses closed Cape Town Tourism is preparing to launch a new strategy to attract more foreign tourists and create new jobs after about 200 tourism-related businesses closed in the past two … [Read more...]
With reference to the sies skande news that one of Paris Hilton's BFF's, Jennifer Rivero, had taken the fall for her best buddy and coughed up the news that it was her smoking a dagga cigarette at the Brazil Netherlands Game in Port Elizabeth we did a little research to see if Jennifer could have any ulterior motives for her scandalous behaviour. Of course this was all done in the interests of assisting Uncle Sepp Blatter to nail down a charge of ambush marketing against Paris and her … [Read more...]
Do this simple test to determine which South African web site is your favourite. DON'T SCROLL DOWN YET!! FIRST, do the simple math below, THEN, scroll down to find your favourite South African web site. It's CRAZY how accurate this is! Pick your favorite number between 1-8 Multiply by 3 then Add 3 Then again Multiply by 3 (I'll wait while you get the calculator...) You'll get a 2 digit number.....maybe 42. Add the digits together. Example 4 and 2 = 6 Now Scroll … [Read more...]
South Africa is a nation with a long history of conflict based on religous, cultural and racial lines. The Dutch settled in Cape Town in order to dominate the vital trade routes with the east. Portuguese struggled to gain a foothold. British triumphed for a while. Boer fought against British. French fled persecution. Xhosa fled persecution. Zulu and Shona fled persecution. White controlled black. Apartheid was institutionalised racism. Over all these years what did we actually fight each … [Read more...]
Two NMMU Business Management lecturers Chantal Rootman and Prof Madele Tait are among 17 authors that contributed to a book originally written by "the father of Marketing" Phillip Kotler. Prof Tait was asked to be the South African editor of this book that has contibuting authors from the University of Cape Town, University of Johannesburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Tshwane University of Technology and University of the Free State. Pearson Education obtained the license to adapt the book for the … [Read more...]
There are three sides to global warming: those that believe it and those that don't and then the growing third side, those that believe it but don't feel or care that they can do much about it. And these three sides are the topic of this article: Is climate change real and due to human activities, do our actions matter, and if it does, when should we start acting? It would be nice to ask an independent person if global warming is real. Someone who has collated and rigorously synthesized all … [Read more...]
On 11 May, Brad Geyser, NSRI Hout Bay station commander said: "At 17h26 NSRI Hout Bay activated both of our rescue craft, MTU Nadine Gordimer and Albie Matthews to go to the assistance of the 8 metre fishing boat Cape Fear, with a crew of 5 aboard, reporting to be experiencing engine failure, 22 nautical miles South West of Cape Point, in progressively worsening sea conditions (with a cold front moving in on the area) and with fading light. NSRI Simonstown had been monitoring the casualty … [Read more...]
The importance of having communication with family or friends when at sea was once again highlighted recently. Earlier this month the Mossel Bay Harbour Master contacted the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) in Cape Town about a phone call that he had received from the wife of the skipper regarding an incident off the coast of Madagascar. The skipper of the yacht had contacted his wife via his SatPhone informing her that his yacht, the Erica, had run aground off the west coast … [Read more...]
The South African registered yacht Sea Jade left St Helena Island on 4 April with one crewmember on board. It was bound for either Walvis Bay or Cape Town, depending on the weather. When the yacht was 3 days overdue for its arrival at Walvis Bay, concerned family members reported it to the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) Cape Town. The MRCC Cape Town broadcast a Safety Net message for all shipping in the area to keep a look out for the Sea Jade. On Wednesday the 29 April the … [Read more...]
At present there are a total of 156 registered political parties in South Africa, 117 of them registered as National parties and the following local only party registrations: 6 in the Eastern Cape, 2 in the Free State, 60 for Gauteng, 2 in Mpumalanga, 1 in the Northern Cape, 5 in Limpopo, 3 in the North West and the Western Cape with 14. I am willing to bet that you would struggle to name a maximum of 10 National Political Parties. The IEC web site provides you with a search box to find … [Read more...]
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