What caught my attention more than the captivating story itself, is how many families she is now part of. Take a deep breath. Her search for ubuntu saw her being embraced by 92 families of 13 different cultures in and around 121 towns.

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It was less than 2 weeks ago, come to think of it. Last week most of us still had withdrawal symptoms, holding on to our Vuvuzelas and waiting for the most opportune moment to blow them. 

Brand South Africa is making it possible with the idea of Flying The Flag, which is meant to keep the spirits both South Africans and the world high. I took a moment to go out to Brand South Africa and talk to the CEO, Miller Matola, about what that means. More than anything, he took the moment to speak to me.

Below is a short video between me and Mr. Matola, where he gets into detail about what it means to Fly Your Flag.

What remains constant is this video of Japanese business people who have been in Johannesburg for 6 months. Their overall experience of South Africa has been of a welcoming and comfortable place. However, the Japanese World Cup loss against Paraguay still does not sit well with them.

Take a look at the video below.

What has changed for you in the past few days? Tell us in the comments we would really like to know.

The Danish fans I met, after being to the Cradle of Mankind, also assert we are all originate from the same place. And it’s somewhere next to Pretoria.

Denmark fans predict the score from Brand South Africa Blog on Vimeo.

When I met Kris Fernandes at the OR Tambo International Airport, it was clear that he is a regular traveler. You know, one of those people who are just comfortable in places and you can’t distinguish from the masses till they speak.

Little did I know that he was also journalist who is here to document the World Cup. He is from Inside Soccer Magazine, a Canadian soccer magazine.

My interest in capturing his story had more to do with what he is looking forward to while in South Africa. And as it turns out, he might just bungee jump the Bloukrans Bridge before me.

Quick question: Did you know that South Africa has one of the highest commercial bungee jumps in the world? It is the Bloukrans Bridge.

While he is in South Africa, he is also looking to go diving with the sharks in Cape Town.

View the video and let me know what you find most adventurous about Mzansi.

With Kris Fernandes from Canada from Brand South Africa Blog on Vimeo.

Whether you love to hate the vuvuzela or (like me) hate the fact that you love the vuvuzela. One thing is for sure the vuvuzela is as unique to South Africa as South Africans eating ice cream in zero degree tempratures.

Never before, it seems to me,  has such an undemanding instrument so united a nation!

I am talking about the much loved and even more despised blowing of the vuvuzela pre-, during and post games. Everyone, everywhere, from my neighbours next door, or across the street, to fans in the fan parks, to the fans in the stadiums, are raucous in their determined blowing of the vuvuzela.

The vuvuzela is simple and uncomplicated. Not very musical in design but extremely powerful in application. It transcends all barriers, cultural, religious, gender, economic, linguistic.

When we blow the vuvuzela, we all speak the same language. A language which starts in the heart and transcends through the soul to be freely expressed via the lungs. Noisy to some, music to others.

Now in order to truly appreciate the wonder of the vuvuzela, one needs to understand the language in which it speaks.

A short beep, beep, baaarp is a motivational war cry, the blower firmly believing that the harder and faster he blows, the better his team will perform on the field.

Baaarp, baaarp, baaarp clearly indicates that the referee is deaf, dumb, blind or all three.

A protracted  baaa-aaarp to expresses disappointment or heart-rending defeat.

So the next time you hear the vuvuzela, why not listen to the message, it sends?

And who can resist being drawn into the vuvu-dance? Once the crowd starts going. In an adaptation of the traditional Shosholoza gum-boot dance, which sees vuvuzela’s swinging from side to side in a rhytmic motion as the crowd belts out “shosholoza”. A breathtaking spectacle..

So, Mr Paton. If you were here today to witness this,  I hope you might be inspired to say: let us love the earth too deeply, let us laugh too gladly and let usgive too much of our heart to a mountain or a valley, because today our nation stands united.

Viva the v-u-v-u-z-e-l-a!

The sound of vuvuzelas, even inside shopping malls, where silence is the order. They could be heard loud and proud.

Amidst all of that, you would except that the person walking across the street in his interesting gear is not South African. That is what drew me to Allan King, whom to my surprise turned out to be South African.

What interesting things are you doing during these days? It would be great to hear from you, but first here’s what Allan had to say.

The fact that it would be during lunchtime didn’t make it any more believable. Quite skeptical, I know! But being the skeptic I am, I had to go see it for myself to believe it. More than just being there, lest you don’t believe me, I took a camera for the experience.

Even more priceless, was meeting German tourists who themselves were raving about South Africa.

On our way back from the festivities, which felt like a holiday, it turned out the final estimate was 200 000 to 250 000 people. From radio again, but I would believe it. And the video makes it even more believable. We were all within about 6 blocks of Sandton, in the north of Johannesburg.

What was happening in your city? Tell us in the comments what you did in support of Bafana, of South Africa.

Flags, Zakumi’s (official World Cup mascot), soccer jerseys everywhere makes me feel that we can unite as a country, evident in the progress made.

*** I love SA ***

Am I going to be watching any of the matches live? Obviously! I have never been to a soccer match before and will be attending my first on Friday, where France and Uruguay go head to head (or ball to foot in this case) :). I will be glued to a giant screen somewhere before this game starts to watch RSA vs. Mexico and rooting for Bafana all the way. First live match ever, World Cup fever, feeling SA unite, can anyone say “excited”, “excited”, “excited”?

The feeling I hope for South Africa is that we stay this way long past the end game is played. Everyone is watching and can see that through working together and progress, we can be pushed into another league and be part of a set of countries people all of the world would like to visit sometime in their life.

So, Bafana, we are behind you 150%, make us proud and do your best.

Visitors to South Africa, our country is beautiful, take the opportunity to visit places off the beaten track  you’ll be pleasantly surprised and p.s. don’t forget to shop!