Archive for the ‘South Africa’ Category

Are you gonna braai?

Friday, September 21st, 2007

On the 24th of September 2007 its a public holiday, Heritage Day in face. But a bunch of people have decided that is really just a great day to have a braai and are encouraging all South Africans to get friends and family together and to cook up a ...

Telkom in the dwang for claims

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

It looks like Telkom is in a bit of a pickle over its recent "Do Broadband" advertising. A post on MyBroadband details the complaint from a consumer that says its false advertising. Mr Moorad lodged a consumer complaint against Telkom’s “do” broadband campaign, arguing that the advertisements claims ...

IPTV one step closer for South Africans

Friday, September 14th, 2007

The US might have landed on the moon but South Africa took a huge leap yesterday when the industry regulator, ICASA, announced that four new pay-TV broadcaster licenses had been awarded to Telkom Media, MultiChoice, On Digital Media and e.sat respectively. An interesting note is that Sentech has withdrawn ...

Wanna learn to speak Zulu?

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I recently got invited to the Motherland Language Project group on Facebook and after much procrastination decided to take a look see what its all about. Turns out its a bunch of South Africans that are trying to teach a million South Africans to speak Zulu in 8 weeks ...