Posts Tagged with 'south-africa'

If NASA was a South African company, or had some South Africans in their higher ranks, they’d have thought twice about the abbreviation for their “Polar Operational Environment Satellites” project…

Haa haa haa haa. If you’re not sure what it means, Wikipedia to the rescue (you’ll have to search for it on the page).

I’d never heard of Goldfish (from Cape Town in South Africa) until SA Rocks mentioned it the other day, and WOW!! These guys are good. So good in fact that they’ve been picked up by the likes of Fatboy Slim, Mr Scruff, The Audio Bullys, Paul van Dyk, Pete Tong and Stereo MC’s.
Now if that [...]

Today is Heritage Day in sunny South Africa. It’s the day…
when South Africans celebrate the diverse cultural heritage that makes up a “rainbow nation”. It is the day to celebrate the contribution of all South Africans to the building of South Africa.
Anyway, Google had recognised it too with a pretty cool looking logo (the colours [...]

Ladies and gentleman, may I present to you Zakumi: the official mascot for the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa.

Zakumi is a Proudly South African (and African) leopard in the green and gold of Bafana Bafana with green hair. The green hair was a decision he made once as “he felt it would [...]

Following the news that Thabo Mbeki was resigning as President of South Africa, 14 other cabinet ministers have followed suit, including the finance minister. Could South Africa be heading for Banana Republic-dom? Who knows, only time will tell, but one thing is for sure, the South Africans are still seeing the funny side of [...]

I don’t believe it. I’ve just read that Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s president is going to step down after being asked to by the ANC’s National Executive Committee. Apparently this is “an effort to heal and unite the ANC”, the county’s ruling party.
Whilst I agree South Africa hasn’t seen the changes at the [...]

Only the South African rugby boys can give Percy Montgomery the tribute party he deserves as the most capped Springbok in history…

(Click each image for larger image)
In case you missed it, Percy is the only one not wearing a wig, but you’ll have to look closely to spot which one he is

Well, the power of the South Africans on the internet has been proven. We’re taking your women, jobs and now board games too.
The big push by various South African bloggers, me included, to get the most beautiful city in the world - Cape Town - onto the World Edition of Monopoly has paid off. [...]

I quite like The Verve’s latest single “Love is Noise”, but something has been bothering me about it for a while. Something in the song sounds really familiar, and for the life of me I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. That was until this morning when I heard it on my [...]