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Oscar’s Twitter Pic Shows Blade Differences

September 4, 2012 By SA-People

Caster

After Oscar Pistorius’ heated reaction last night, immediately after missing out on Gold in the Men’s 200m Final, the South African athlete has apologised for his bad timing…but not for the content of his rant which was made during a Channel 4 interview. He has also uploaded a photo to his Twitter page that seems [...]

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Archbishop Tutu Pulls Out of SA Summit because of Blair

August 28, 2012 By SA-People

Archbishop tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pulled out of a South African event at the last minute because he does not want to share a platform with Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Nobel Peace Prize winner was due to speak at The Discovery Invest Leadership Summit on 30 August at the Sandton Convention Centre, along [...]

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Save the Rhino

April 11, 2012 By SA-People Contributor

Save the Rhino

From an urgent letter from Avaaz. They need our action asap. Dear Friends, The rhino is being hunted into extinction and could disappear forever unless we act now. Shocking new statistics show 440 rhinos were brutally killed last year in South Africa alone — a massive increase on five years ago when just 13 had [...]

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Social Media : Make dust or eat dust?

March 17, 2012 By SA-People Contributor

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It seems inevitable that for brands and businesses,  the conversation turns to  ”How do we use Social Media to grow our brand”.  Everyone is jumping on the  Blog-Facebook-Twitter bandwagon, but really — how should brands leverage off social media? This week I sat in on a meeting with a “prospective website” client (who is a [...]

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Social Media : Make dust or eat dust?

March 17, 2012 By SA-People Contributor

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It seems inevitable that for brands and businesses,  the conversation turns to  ”How do we use Social Media to grow our brand”.  Everyone is jumping on the  Blog-Facebook-Twitter bandwagon, but really — how should brands leverage off social media? This week I sat in on a meeting with a “prospective website” client (who is a [...]

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TKAG Information and Appeal

February 15, 2012 By SA-People Contributor

Fracking stirs controversy in South Africa

Submitted by Karen Rademeyer, Treasure Karoo Action Group Dear South Africans This letter is important to you, your family and the South Africans that you know – please read it and forward it to people that you know. Should I care whether or not South Africa is fracked? This précis is aimed at people who [...]

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Eish! Really? No alcohol for pregnant women in Gauteng!

February 8, 2012 By Amanda Stergianos

Pregnant woman with a glass of wine

Dear SA-People It’s now public news that the powers that be in Gauteng are perhaps a little deluded – or maybe they simply forgot about the order of their priorities in addressing the serious levels of “enforceable crime” in our beautiful country. I’m referring to the draft Gauteng Liquor Bill of 2012, which was released [...]

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Karoo under threat from Fracking

January 26, 2012 By SA-People Contributor

The Karoo

letter of concernA non-profit organisation is gathering momentum in its opposition to plans by gas companies to push ‘fracking’ into South Africa, particularly the Karoo, and is calling on as many South Africans as possible to join and support their cause.  The organisation is the Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG) and was created, mainly by [...]

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Airline with, um, someone else’s sense of humour

August 27, 2010 By SA-People

Kulula Airline

Eish. It appears that low-budget South African airline Kulula keeps their prices down by borrowing international jokes. And we don’t mind that. Copying. But we wish an email doing the rounds at the moment wouldn’t tout these jokes as being “uniquely South African” when every single one is imported (see below). The email – under [...]

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French TV Channel is first to use Vuvuzela-free Technology

June 17, 2010 By SA-People

France may have just lost against Mexico, but they’re refusing to lose interest in the World Cup. And they want it vuvuzela-free. Today leading French pay TV channel CANAL+ became the first official FIFA broadcaster to utilize a new Vuvuzela-free Technology for the WorldCup. They turned to Audionamix, an audio restoration provider and research laboratory [...]

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