Brand South Africa Blog

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A blog by izwi

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Reasons to Believe in South Africa

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Brand South Africa Blog ranks 122 in Africa and 74 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 281, and 272 according to page views:

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Get ready for the mother of all patriotic traffic jams

It’s another Football Friday and South Africans are at it again. This time our proud nation will attempt to enter the record books for “the longest parade of privately owned vehicles displaying the national flag” on 27 April 2010 in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. We hop onto our

Rockers

Port Elizabeth has a small, windy township called iBhayi,  which has  a section called eZwide. From a single visit you wouldn’t anticipate anything progressive to be happening there right under your nose. Except the Informal Street Markets that iBhayi  is popular for. But then, in my search of South Africans

Shisa Nyama

My eyes and nose were drawn to fresh meat sizzling atop the flaming, massive grills at Imbizo Buy and Braai in Ebony Park affably known as ‘Busy Corner.’ I could smell the charcoal and spices burning from the adjacent parking lot and amidst the bustling chatter of patrons eating

We’re featured!

Zoopy.com, South Africa’s home grown answer to YouTube — and we think it can teach YouTube a thing or two — featured our video about Nomsa Sindani and the tour she gave us of Soweto. Okay, it was a fleeting moment of glory, but we’re still thrilled.

Mbongiseni!

Mbongiseni Nyembe is an aspiring hip-hop artist and stand-up comic in Soweto. He tagged along when his aunt, Nomsa Sindani, retraced her steps on June 16, 1976, for a visitor. In the video, he pays tribute to the generation of 1976 at the Hector Pieterson memorial and riffs on

It’s the real thing

With just 90 days and 13 Football Fridays left before the World Cup kickoff, Coca Cola announced their latest initiative. They will be taking the World Trophy to a city or town near you. What Coca Cola and FIFA have realized was that they not reaching out all

A Morning in Soweto with Nomsa

Just before Christmas, I received an e-mail from Nomsa Sindani. She was back in South Africa after spending six years in the UK working as a nurse. She had seen South Africa portrayed in numerous television documentaries and was not happy with the depiction. They “showed mostly the

A Morning in Soweto with Nomsa

Just before Christmas, I received an e-mail from Nomsa Sindani. She was back in South Africa after spending six years in the UK working as a nurse. She had seen South Africa portrayed in numerous television documentaries and was not happy with the depiction. They “showed mostly the

What’s for lunch?

What happens when you take a gourmet pizza, add a little cheese, the warmth of a great Italian family and the jolliness of a great South African legend? The best lunch ever, I realise as I take another bite of my delicious tasty Mimmo’s Rude Awakening Moroccan

40 000 South Africans, one journey around Africa

When I first heard of Jolandie Rust, it was from an invitation to dinner that a friend passed on to me one Friday afternoon. Fridays being what they are, I almost ignored the invitation, but going was of the best decisions in months. She had just returned from her

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