Posts Tagged with 'joburg'

02 Mar 2008

Jo’burg Needs Your Vote Now

Voting is over for the main contenders in the “Monopoly Here & Now Edition” online “vote-athon” and thanks to some great publicity by fellow South African bloggers (here, here, here, here, here and me) and Facebook users, I think Cape Town is sure to be on the new board.
It’s now time to cast your votes [...]

27 Oct 2006

Jo’burg International is No More

Don’t worry, it’s still there, but as of today, it’s just called the OR Tambo International Airport.
Bloody waste of money if you ask me… South Africa is still a third world country with thousands of people living in poverty, yet members of the government seem to be dead keen on wasting millions of Rands [...]

28 Jul 2006

The Middle of Jo’burg Has Been Forgotten

I was saddened to read about the rapid downturn of the middle of Jo’burg in the past few years. It’s as if everyone has forgotten about the City of Gold and left it to turn into the City of Rubble.
I know a lot of it has to do with big companies (including the Johannesburg Stock [...]