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NANDO’S CHEEKY HUMOUR Nando’s have long been known for their topical ads whose cheeky and often subversive humour poke fun and ruffle feathers (an appropriate analogy for a fast food restaurant chain specializing in chicken). Their latest one is another classic: Free Nando’s for Mexico – if they lose Prior to yesterday’s game, Nando’s was offering the Mexican football team […]
Read More »Our transformation challenge: The Blue Bulls show the way! By Steuart Pennington in South Africa The Good News Newsletter no 263 01 June 2010 “It just shows how far we have come as a nation” were Victor Matfield’s final words as he reflected on the Bulls semi-final in Orlando Stadium, having said earlier “Hearing vuvuzelas […]
Read More »South Africanese at it’s most expressive Vivienne Hambly guardian.co.uk, Friday 26 February 2010 writes: Don’t know your babbelas from your tekkies? Learn how to make yourself understood at the World Cup 2010 with our indispensible guide: Drawing from 11 official languages – with English, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Afrikaans – being the most dominant, South Africa’s […]
Read More »HAWKERS ROLE UPSURGE OF NATIONAL SYMBOLS In Jozi, on every suburban pavement, busy intersection and traffic island, is a group of hawkers selling flags, mirror covers, soccer glasses, beaded key rings and all things promoting the national flag. It is in the traffic that most Jozi-ites purchase their symbols of support for Bafana Bafana and enter into the spirit of […]
Read More »Philip Tobias : Giant in the field of paleo-anthropology Chris Thurman enagaged in conversation with Prof Philip Tobias world-renowned paleo-anthroplogist at the Boekehuis this Saturday. In addition to his ground breaking work with hominids, Tobias has also been very influential as an anatomist, a geneticist, is an expert on medic-legal ethics and … is a keen lover of cricket! With a […]
Read More »10 things that went right for South Africa in 2009 From What went right in 2009 Dec 30th, 2009 by Pierre De Vos South Africa had another free and fair election (it’s fourth!) without any serious violence and the fourth democratic President was inaugurated soon afterwards. The government decisively changed direction on HIV/AIDS and President Jacob […]
Read More »SA the Good News Check SA Goodnews no 242 13 December 2009 on http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/newsletter_archive/the_best_of_2009_2.html And from Project 2010 Issue 165 18 Dec 2009 2009 will be remembered as the year that South Africa staked its claim to hosting a successful 2010 World Cup. Certainly, the past 12 months have marked an extraordinary turnaround in the preparations […]
Read More »South Africa: the Good News ‘Good at the extraordinary but not so good at the ordinary’ is a quote from Albie Sachs, the retired Constitutional Court Judge and former activist in the freedom movement. South Africa always gets notoriously bad press. I think I can safely say that the majority of my guests who have never […]
Read More »Cape Argus Cycle Race: 14 March Human Rights Day: 21 March Public Holiday: 22 March School Holidays: 27 Mar – 11 Apr Good Friday: 02 April Two Oceans Marathon: 03 Apr Family Day: 05 April Freedom Day: 27 Apr Workers Day: 01 May Comrades Marathon: 30 May Youth Day: 16 June Grahamstown Festival: 20 Jun […]
Read More »ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA ….. I have a school friend called Carol who has lived out of the country since the mid 1970s but has returned often since the 1990s. Recently her mother died. She had been living at a frail care facility down on the southern Cape coast and had been looked after with […]
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