If you’re looking for one of the most comprehensive sources of 2010 World Cup news on the Web, click over to Project2010, and feast your eyes!
The site is busy, spunky, already very-well filled out, and represents the best of the local (”co.za”) online World Cup offerings. It’s got big-time SA football sponsors like KickOff Magazine, and will be well-positioned to reap a few rewards come the big event.
Keep it up, Project2010!
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South Africa’s official tourism site, SouthAfrica.info, has just published a mosaic of SA faces, and, in a highly original twist, called it “The Rainbow Nation”.
Notwithstanding the radicalism of this somewhat dubious experimental title - surely they’re pushing the creative envelope a bit too hard - the faces are sweet and worth a quick browse:
Rainbow Nation on SouthAfrica.info
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Meet Kalahari.net!
South Africa’s answer to Amazon.com, it’s a virtual emporium of books, music, videos, DVDs, games, electronic products and more. Many of the items for sale on Kalahari.net are available via next-day delivery - especially Christian-themed books and music - and the online shopping is as safe as with the net’s major dotcoms.
Kalahari.net Shopping Tips:
Perfect for buying gifts for your South African friends, even after you’ve left the country.Convenient Computicket booking service for movies and theatre.Excellent “Crafts & Hobbies” section.Gift certificates available.
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Many South African websites center on the Big Cities: Cape Town, Jo’burg and Durban. However, there are dozens of other owns that are deserving of your attention… and no, we’re not just taking about the winelands and areas outside Kruger National Park.
Treasure Africa is one website that strives to put a smaller area in South Africa on tourists’ maps. Owners Retha and Pierre van Staden are passionate about their hamlet of Hout Bay, located 25 minutes southwest of Cape Town’s city center. Hout Bay has a host of things travelers love: good food, awe-inspiring views, things to do, …
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Your Correspondent, renowned 2010 junkie, has suffered through World Cup news withdrawal for over a week, and is now about to go out there into the online wilderness and get his fix. Wish me luck!
[5 min later] Hmmm…
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If you’ve been to Joburg, you’ll know this to be true: South Africa burns. Many small, random fires dot the landscape, particularly on the highveld (which is, roughly, Gauteng Province and its immediate surrounds), and the country chokes from the smoke of several large, devastating conflagrations each year. Have a look, for instance, at SA Logue’s coverage of the great Table Mountain Fire this January.
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If you’re heading to the Wild Coast between now and September, make allowance in your budget for plenty of batteries. Not only will you find scene upon breathtaking scene to snap, but you’ll be able to test your talent for photography in the Wild Coast Photographic Competition.
The competition is open to all who visit or live in the area - locals and foreigners alike. A half-dozen categories ensure that your pics will find a suitable niche for vying for the judges’ attention. (There’s even a cell phone category - very neat.) It’s requested that all photos be submitted in digital format - on cd or via email.
The competition website, meanwhile, is already filling up with gorgeous photos. A few samples:
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(An SA Blog Beta post from Your Correspondent)
SA Blog’s Link of the Week will be especially useful for travellers visiting the Eastern Cape. Click over to the website of the Daily Dispatch, South Africa’s best daily online newspaper, for good coverage of East London, Nelson Mandela Metropole (NMMM - a.k.a. Port Elizabeth), Grahamstown, Umtata, and all the lovely E Cape beach villages like Jeffrey’s Bay and Port St. Johns - plus many tidbits from around the rest of the country.
The Dispatch prioritizes its news like any proud regional paper: local stories first! Today, for instance, the lead is an …
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