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Reasons to Believe in South Africa

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We’d Go Back in a Heartbeat

Rudy Maxa is one of America’s top travel journalists. Today he was on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, a popular call-in show on Washington’s WAMU radio station. He is just back from South Africa, where he was shooting two half-hour segments for Rudy Maxa’s World, to be broadcast next year

Blogging South African Innovation

South Africa is alive with possibility, but whose word are you going to take for it? Ours? We hope so, but let’s be candid. It really helps to hear first-hand from balanced and independent voices telling their own stories. That’s why the Brand South Africa/IMC is bringing a group

World’s Best Winemaker

Kanonkop winemaker Abrie Beeslaar was voted the International Winemaker of the Year 2008 at the International Wine and Spirits Competition’s (IWSC) gala award ceremony in London last night. Peter May has a nice blog entry on the winery and specifically its pinotages, here. Also on the wine front, Cape

You Won’t Be Blue on Route 62

Associated Press writer Claire Nullis heads from Cape Town to the Port Elizabeth the back way on a drive she finds evocative of the old Route 66 between Chicago and Los Angeles. “It winds through scenic spa towns, vineyards and fruit farms, breathtaking mountains and floral feasts—not to mention

A Very Stable Country

Chris Rowan, a British geologist doing post-doctoral work at the University of Johannesburg, is fascinated by our old rocks. “My geological instincts, honed back in the UK where ‘Precambrian’ is almost a synonym for fubarite, have always been somewhat dizzied by my many encounters in the past couple of

The Word is Out

The countdown to the 2008 Brand South Africa Bloggers Tour has begun. Matthew Buckland reveals who’s joining us on the adventure. Stay tuned.

Joule Videos

In case you missed them.

Forget the view, Martha, check out the signal strength!

Another satisfied visitor: “I’m not able to visit my family in the highly developed suburb of Washington DC without having to dance around the house, looking for that perfect spot that allows me to make a call.  Even then, eight times out of ten, my call gets dropped midway

Close Encounter of the Bird Kind

Paul Van Roekel met this bird while cycling round South Africa. For the rest of his excellent pictures from the trip, go here.

See Parys and Live

A recommendation.

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