Win A Go-Pro Hero 3 Camera From Heineken
The Heineken Dropped video series and ‘social experiment’ is in full swing. In the 4th instalment, Capetonian graphic designer Clint Jacobs is, literally, dropped out of the sky into Poland and expected to make his way to Berlin. I previously blogged about the campaign and have been following it...
Men Rally Against Women And Children Abuse
Violence against women and children in South Africa continues to be at epidemic levels. It is horrific. It’s absolutely tragic. Yet, according to some research quoted by Rev. Bafana Khumalo from SANAC Men’s Sector, only 1 in 5 men are actually abusive. Keeping this in mind, it is imperative that...
Art Of Life Eps 7: African Web Series On Tech & Lifestyle
In the 7th Episode of Art of Life - an African web series on technology, the digital realm, lifestyle and motoring - with Steve Slotow and myself, Steve shares his experiences from Research@Intel 2013 in San Francisco, I talk a bit about WeChat, the 'social messaging' app being actively pushed by...
Random Thoughts: The Future of Holidaying
When I was in my teens and in university, my father always insisted on family holidays, particularly around Christmas. We would pile into the car and head to Swaziland, Durban or East London or something. Before that, I generally spent my Christmas holidays in Germany with relatives in addition to...
Digital Crates: DJ Chicken George
In the beginning: When I came to the realisation that, to hear good music, I couldn’t solely depend on radio, television, record labels and all the other components of the ‘formal’ music industry for music – because for many, it is simply a business, man. I stumbled upon DJ Chicken George. Talib...
Random Thoughts: Africa’s Wikipedia Problem?
In April this year, an American author, Amanda Filipacchi, wrote a piece titled Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists, on the New York Times website in reaction to the discovery that women were being moved from the American Novelists category to a sub-category American Women Novelists....
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Men Rally Against Women And Children Abuse
Violence against women and children in South Africa continues to be at epidemic levels. It is horrific. It’s absolutely tragic. Yet, according to some research quoted by Rev. Bafana Khumalo from SANAC Men’s Sector, only 1 in 5 men are actually abusive. Keeping this in mind, it is imperative that...
Art Of Life Eps 7: African Web Series On Tech & Lifestyle
In the 7th Episode of Art of Life - an African web series on technology, the digital realm, lifestyle and motoring - with Steve Slotow and myself, Steve shares his experiences from Research@Intel 2013 in San Francisco, I talk a bit about WeChat, the 'social messaging' app being actively pushed by...
Random Thoughts: The Future of Holidaying
When I was in my teens and in university, my father always insisted on family holidays, particularly around Christmas. We would pile into the car and head to Swaziland, Durban or East London or something. Before that, I generally spent my Christmas holidays in Germany with relatives in addition to...
Digital Crates: DJ Chicken George
In the beginning: When I came to the realisation that, to hear good music, I couldn’t solely depend on radio, television, record labels and all the other components of the ‘formal’ music industry for music – because for many, it is simply a business, man. I stumbled upon DJ Chicken George. Talib...
Random Thoughts: Africa’s Wikipedia Problem?
In April this year, an American author, Amanda Filipacchi, wrote a piece titled Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists, on the New York Times website in reaction to the discovery that women were being moved from the American Novelists category to a sub-category American Women Novelists....
Heineken Dropped SA
There is something about travel that puts not only one’s home into perspective but also how we fit into the world as a whole. The diversity that is the human species and the planet we live on is phenomenal but few of us have the opportunity to truly experience it, even if it is a snapshot. I often...