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• 10.28.09
  Invictus trailer Cape Town, Personal stuff | Comments Off

  Hollywood seems to be loving the tip of Africa. It's great to see yet another high quality movie made about South Africa (I was all over District 9). I've been waiting to see this movie ever since Matt Damon wizzed passed me in Hout Bay, about to tackle Suikerbossie on the Cape Argus Cycle tour earlier this year. It looks inspiring. After all this is an inspiring country, with inspiring people and an inspiring story to tell.
• 10.08.09
  Opening speech @ #SiliconCape Cape Town, Venture Capital news, media launches | (5)

  Here is the text of the speech I gave at the opening of Silicon Cape in Camps Bay. I'm not alone in saying that this was an inspiring and well-supported event. Welcome everyone and thank you all for coming. A special welcome to the Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille, Dr Mamphela Ramphele and Mr Johann Rupert. It’s an absolute honour and it’s humbling to be speaking in front of such an important gathering of tech people in this country. I think we all realise that we’re part of history here. Here, today, history is being made. There are some powerful and influential ...
• 09.02.09
  To the 27 Dinner, James Cape Town, Nonsense, Personal stuff | Comments Off

  Today the topic is transport. Chris Rawlinson, networker extraordinaire, of the 27Dinner, Stormhoek and Huddlemind, seems to be taking care of my transport needs these days -- and this time he delivered a big car. For this 27Dinner we (Bridget, my other half) caught a limo (wot, wot) together with WebMovieStars The Perels (speaking about online marketing) and ad guru Alex Van Tonder (speaking about slippy slurpy or whatever) and partner. Wonder what the next one will be, Chris? :-) Thanks to 00heaven for organising the limo. I'm usually sceptical about these services because they generally entail a smelly, beaten ...
• 07.26.09
  Stylin' through the mother city with Audi Cape Town, Personal stuff, Social media | (4)

  Big up to Joe Botha and Chris Rawlinson (aka I did an "advanced" driving course) for putting this fun shindig together. The idea was to drive a variety of Audis (a Q5, A4, A6, TT, R8 to be precise) across beautiful Cape Town, with a social media twist. It was to be tweeted, blogged, Facebooked, Flickred and whatevered. Swapping cars along the way, we started off at Audi Centre Cape Town in the city centre, then to Constantia Village, and then to Noordhoek where we met up with former Springbok Bob Skinstad at The Toad (his bar), back through Hout ...
• 11.03.08
  2010 Fifa World Cup: Greenpoint stadium construction progress pics Cape Town | (1)

  Here are some photos, hot off the press, of the construction of the new Greenpoint stadium in Cape Town which is being built for the 2010 Fifa World Cup. We were at a launch party for 24.com's sport24.co.za launch party which included SA Cricketer Craig Matthews and Olympic Swimmer Roland Schoeman. The pics were taken on my cellphone, so pardon the quality.
• 09.22.08
  Cape Talk 567 vs Joburg's 702 Cape Town | (7)

  It's a funny thing. I don't know what it is about Cape Town, but politics seem very far away -- even the big politics. In Joburg I'd bang my head on the door at every bad ripple in the political landscape, but somehow, in someway, it doesn't get to you as much down south in the fishing village. I need to analyse this some more to work out what exactly is going on here. Maybe it's just me. They say you can tell quite a bit about a place by listening to the people who call in on talk radio shows. ...