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Category: 2010
The “Less Space” Diski Dance lesson
By Mongezi Mtati on Mar 04, 2010 in 2010, Contributors, Creativity, Events, Featured, Mongezi Mtati, People
Who knew you could do the Diski Dance from your desk and get some practice before embarrassing yourself in public. If you have two left feet that is.
100 Day World Cup Countdown: Pick n Pay raise the stakes
“The World Cup is at Northgate Shopping Centre” is what you would have thought had you been there this past Tuesday.
Nice Kitty
Our newest contributor goes in search of big game — the kind you’re unlikely to find at Soccer City but for which South Africa is also justly famous — and finds some in Sterkfontein, a good deal closer to Johannesburg than Kruger Park.
100 Days!
Since I arrived three weeks ago, South Africa has welcomed me with open arms– and although I’m an American, there’s a special excitement I feel whenever I see someone waving a South African flag because I then begin to realize that the World Cup is really happening, that it’s almost here, and that I am actually going to be apart of the experience.
Release Your Inner Mad(ison Ave) Man or Woman
Do you have what it takes to create a sizzling ad — print, web banner, video — that captures the essence of South Africa, the energy, humanity, humour, creativity and resilience of our people, the richness of our cultures, our music, our art, the astounding beauty of our landscape and the astonishing bounty of [...]
The People’s Bus is off to a town near you
Roll up, roll up for Brand South Africa’s magical bus tour, bringing the excitement of 2010 to every corner of the country. Mongezi Mtati joins the inaugural run, to Tembisa.
Put a SOCKZELA on it!
The ‘SOCKZELA’, as it’s called, brands the Vuvuzela with different country flags, colours and has a lanyard that allows you to hang this neat new novelty around your neck. A great example of how South African entrepreneurs are leveraging the FIFA World Cup.
Quiz
When Cabindan separatists shot up Togo’s soccer team en route to the African Cup of Nations in Angola last month, killing two, South Africans flinched. They did so not only because of the horror of the attack itself but in sure anticipation of the commentary that was bound to follow about what it all [...]
Matt. Dancing Madly. Here.
Mondays are like any other day as long as I get to do what I love and that is flying. Today however, is different as great excitement looms in my airspace. I am about to meet Matt and see him in action.
SA at the World Economic Forum
Boarding passes on hand, innovative conversation and excitement were the order from last week as the teams of Brand South Africa and the International Marketing Council (IMC) left for Davos – Klosters, Switzerland.
The Blogosphere Strikes Back
Jeffrey Hoffman, a former play-by-play baseball announcer now working as a web developer, blogs about sports for the Huffington Post, to which, on or about January 14, he uploaded an item predicting chaos and mayhem at the forthcoming South Africa-hosted FIFA World Cup. He probably wishes he hadn’t.
Everybody’s Doing the Diski
From Maine to California, South African Tourism has America doing the diski, the official dance of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The troupers strutting their stuff in this video are from the San Diego Chapter of the APTA (Association for the Promotion of Tourism to Africa).
Skepticism breeds solutions in a paradoxical nation
Spend some time with a South African, simply engage in casual conversation and see the impossible become the possible.
Final Draw, Final Straw
Our intrepid correspondent sets out to party hearty at the FIFA World Cup draw in Cape Town on December 5, but ends up feeling like a Hobbit.
Coming to your living room carpet: Bafana vs. Mexico in 3D
The players won’t just be on your TV screens, they’ll be running around on your living room.
Here’s looking at you, kid
The African bush delivers surprises, even to the most seasoned travellers and game lovers.
