On the 20th October 2008 Dr Johan Rupert delivered the following address to a group of Foreign Diplomats and Academics BUT he might just as well have been speaking to each and everyone of us. The speech is long but it is worth reading five or six times
Below is the introduction to the speech, the [...]

My search is over! I found it! The only piece of tarred road in South Africa with no cell phone signal (if you don’t count parts of the N1 near Rivonia that keep dropping signal). Some where between Johannesburg and Botswana lies a little town called Lephalale (The Town Previously Known As Ellisras) and it [...]

Many of you will know by now that there is no love lost between Woolworse and I (read this for details) and for the past few years I have tried to convince restaurant owners to include Woolworths as a competitor for a share of their customers’ wallets with mixed success. For me the moment of [...]

An Unforgettable Experience? You might be thinking I am about to start blogging about the near perfect display put on by the Springboks/Proteas at Twickenham/Twitenham on Saturday afternoon. That was truly breathtaking to behold. Supreme in attack, supreme in defence and a scoreline to match it. Oh to be a South African in London today! [...]

Every now and again you come across something truly amazing and this video production is it! Here is an incredibly well put together look at the future that awaits us. As usual I recommend you press play, then press pause a second or two later and allow the video to download before playing it
TESTING A [...]