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Should sms while driving be banned?

Texting while driving Road RageA ban on texting while driving comes into force Thursday in Pennsylvania, but remains legal in some other US states. Do you agree with a ban? Over 96% of people voting of a online poll on the Guardian UK's website agreed texting must be banned completely when driving. My own experience is almost hypocritical as I have sent many an sms while driving on roads in Johannesburg or CapeTown. Sometimes it was emergencies, sometimes it was laziness, sometimes it was due to bad planning or Read More →

Meeting Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Marthinus van Schalkwyk

Last night I attended the annual celebration of the Chinese Revolution at the Sandton Sun Hotel. The event was formal and everyone was wearing expensive suits and the (mostly Chinese) ladies beautiful dresses. My good friends Selwyn and Italo from the Preview Theatre invited me along. I also met Richard and Francis from my Table Tennis Club. Later on my met a new friend Diamond Singlima Si who represents the Taiwanese Independence Party. There is a long history of conflict over the independence of Taiwan from mainland China. As I entered the Sandton Sun Hotel I spotted Read More →

Talent paying the price for crime

Chad Saaiman R&B singerIt came as a blow when we learned about the botched hijacking in Johannesburg of R&B singer Chad Saaiman yesterday. This is sadly a common occurrence in Gauteng where about 50% of South Africa's crime takes place . Still, knowing it happened to a soulful singer, who moved from Cape Town, to seek fame and fortune in Joburg, is sad indeed. He is one of the few South African artists whose style and music appeals to a broad cross section of society.  It is Read More →

Investigative Reporter interviews Thomas Jefferson!

A MAJOR RADIO EVENT! AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER INTERVIEWS THOMAS JEFFERSON! When: Wednesday, June 15, 7-8 PM, Eastern Time Where: www.ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com Scholar Clay Jenkinson, who has portrayed, with stunning accuracy, Thomas Jefferson, in venues all over the world, will assume the identity once more, for a sit-down interview with Jon Rappoport, Pulitzer-nominated reporter. "Mr. Jefferson," in character, will answer Jon's questions about life in 2011, from his 18th-century perspective. "I wish we had three hours," Jon stated, "but we'll squeeze in everything we can in one hour." What is Jefferson's view of where America has gone in two centuries? Is it still a Republic? Read More →

Queensland Flood – Appeal to Youtube

My friend Anthony Larter sent me this on email. Even though I've never been to Australia I'm posting this message because over 100,000 people have been affected by these floods. South African weather bureau has also predicted floods in different parts of South Africa. Someone on Twitter recently mentioned 2010 was the hottest and wettest year in the history of the world - it's probably better to say since weather patterns have been recorded in the last few 100 years or so. My friend, Ryan created this video last night as an appeal to YouTube to donate all the Read More →

I am Proudly South African!

Robin Banks Mind Power Motivational SpeakerToday I am sharing an important message from my fellow motivational speaker, Robin Banks. A few years ago I attended one of his free Mind Power workshops and was completely blown away by his confidence and ability to get people excited. He has an incredible way of creating high energy experiences similar to Tony Robbins. Anyway in 2007 we met while both of us attended Dr John Demartini's Breakthrough Experience. Here's Robin's message... We are less than 8 days away from Read More →

Earth Hour

All South Africans residents and visitors are encouraged to participate in Earth Hour on Saturday 27 March 2010 by switching off all lights for one hour, between 8.30pm and 9.30pm. Earth Hour is a WWF initiative and is a symbolic act aimed at creating awareness that climate change threatens lives, livelihoods and lifestyles and galvanizing support to pressure governments to combat climate change. The ten warmest years on record have all occurred since 1990. In 2009, an estimated 1 billion people from over 4 000 cities across the world took part in Earth Hour. Supported by local celebrities like The Read More →

Jacob Zuma wedding photos

While people reacted in strange and interesting ways, I found great pleasure in our country's president celebrating in marriage in the traditional Zulu way. It really is my belief that when we look back in history Zuma will be judged a much better president than Thabo Mbeki. [gallery] Read More →

Missing Children SA – We need your help…

From Judy Botes @ Missing Children SA missing children saFor the December holidays 22 children were reported missing to Missing Children SA. Fortunately – together with SAPS – 19 of these children have been recovered. Since official statistics were started in 1994 OVER 900 OF THE CHILDREN REPORTED MISSING IN SOUTH AFRICA, HAVE NOT BEEN RECOVERED. Experts believe that this number will increase this year, especially with the upcoming 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup. Unfortunately the reality Read More →

Democratic Alliance leads elections race in Internet performance

An in-depth analysis of the Internet strategy of the main political parties in South Afrca’s 2009 general elections reveals that the Democratic Alliance has a substantial lead in online performance over its rivals. The African National Congress comes in a distant second, narrowly ahead of the Congress of the People. The United Democratic Movement and Independent Democrats, in turn, are well behind COPE, while the Inkatha Freedom Party trails so far behind, its web presence is described as “damaging”. The first formal web site benchmarking survey of South African political parties was released today by Read More →