Articles tagged ‘Web Picks’
Link Love: Project 2010
By Ben | September 3rd, 2006 |
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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, [...]
While We’re At it, What’s Happening with 2010?
By Ben | August 22nd, 2006 | Add a Comment »
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…
Check Out this Rainbow Nation
By Ben | August 10th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
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 [...]
This is Cool: South Africa Fire Map
By Ben | June 22nd, 2006 | Add a Comment »
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 [...]
Kalahari.net, SA’s Amazon.com
By Ben | March 31st, 2006 | Add a Comment »
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:
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Photo Competition Set to Drive Amateur Snappers Wild
By Ben | February 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Link Love: Treasure Africa
By Court | January 24th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
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 [...]
Link of the Week: The Daily Dispatch
By Ben | January 3rd, 2006 | Add a Comment »
(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 [...]
