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Rough bricks, soft hands and hope
Chez Pool finds nothing soothes the soul like hard labour on a construction site with Habitat for Humanity.
Category: Solutions
One School At A Time with Pepe Marais
By Mongezi Mtati on Aug 26, 2010 in 2010, Creativity, Events, Lives, Observations, People, Perspectives, Solutions, Ubuntu
One South African, Pepe Marais, has been interested in changing the face of education for a while now. If you think that is a tall order for one person, that makes two of us, says Mongezi.
Blow that trumpet
BSA Blog will send a makarapa, authentic Bafana shirt, scarf and vuvuzela with sockzela to the creator of the best vuvuzela version of the tuba mirum from Verdi’s Requiem, as judged by our readers.
The Real Tony Stark — Made in SA
He revolutionised Internet commerce with PayPal. His Tesla electric roadsters are the hottest things on four wheels. His company SpaceX is at the cutting edge of commercial space flight. He was made in SA.
Recycle and set a record
The Foil Ball recycling initiative, a partnership between business and the Aluminium Federation of South Africa, will support Le Hae La Tshepo Centre in Windsor.
Rockers
…but then, in my search of South Africans change agents, I ran into Nic Haralambous and Malizole “Banks” Gwaxula, who both stand for less talk and more positive change in their own right.
What’s for lunch?
Mimmos the Italian family restaurant has once again teamed up with the Rude Awakening team from 94.7 Highveld Stereo to bring you the Mimmos’s Moroccan pizza – the pizza in aid of charity.
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.
Trading Up, Ubuntu-style
By Mongezi Mtati on Nov 12, 2009 in Contributors, Featured, Mongezi Mtati, People, Solutions, Ubuntu
Ubuntu – together were are more than we are apart – is being put to the test by two South Africans without cash.
Africa’s IT Revolution
Engage directly with CEO’s and top execs who are playing a major role in the African telecommunications story. The discussion will be via a video link-up, courtesy of Cisco, between Johannesburg, Washington and New York.
Killer Joule
Kobus Meiring, CEO of Optimal Energy, briefs the IMC bloggers tour on South Africa’s electric car. Kobus previously headed the project to build SALT, the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere.
To the Dawn of Time
Dr. Adrian Tiplady, astronomer, engineer and accomplished jazz musician, is working to have the most ambitious radio telescope in history built in South Africa and other African countries. Listen in to a briefing he gave duringthe 2008 IMC blog tour.
“A Very Exciting Experiment”
In late 2008, we took a group of American bloggers on a first of its kind tour around the country. The idea was to have the SA story told in a whole new way. IMC trustee Muicahel Spicer explains.
