Posts Tagged with 'johannesburg'

Tonight I was flipping through the channels on our Sky box (I don’t subscribe, I just see what I can get for free) and stumbled upon “Urban TV” showing a dreadful South African drama - “Jozi - H”. It’s apparently a medical drama set in “Johannesburg’s trauma unit” in a kind of ER style. [...]

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 [...]

Interesting links for 22 April 2007 - 17 May 2007:

Baby Bubba’s got a Beretta - Only in America. The best part, the kid’s name really is Bubba.
Monorail to link Joburg and Soweto - How cool is this. First Gautrain and now this. If they can keep this kind of development up, 2010 [...]

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 [...]

Gautrain is a great initiative that has just been approved in South Africa. The idea is essentially to provide a very fast train link between Tshwane (Pretoria) and Johannesburg to cut down on the traffic on the Ben Schoeman highway (M1). It will also provide a super quick branch between Sandton and Johannesburg [...]