Brand South Africa Blog

Toby Shapshak blogs on the cellphone banking revolution being pioneered in SA by Wizzit. Or you can watch the film.

Media 24 reports:

“A spokesperson for Stuttafords Van Lines, the largest moving company in South Africa, said that for every person the company moves out of South Africa to the United Kingdom, it helps another 1.5 return.”

Among the returners is economist Nicky Prins. What got to her was the film clip below.

“Sometimes I would cry when I watched it. It sort of brought the emotions to a head, and you would think, ‘I really want to go home’.”

Southern Africa Direct is a Sky TV channel that offers a splendid around the clock window onto the region, its natural beauty, history and culture and ways to enjoy them. The channel is streamed on their website. Just watched a film about the Missionary Route in the Cape. Now on, a piece about street kids playing soccer in Nairobi. Next a visit to KZN. Addictive.

The Brand South Africa team paints a picture. Actually 12 pictures which, miraculously, come together to form one big picture. This was an exercise dreamt up by the team-building geniuses at The Dream Team. It worked.

…in the world. Not what you’d immediately say from watching this video shot by a French filmmaker in Soweto. But watch and listen to the people, and think some more.

A Johannesburg doctor talks about his love for the country and why he has no plans to leave.