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Online classified job application results in rape and death

online classief sites a new risk dangers rapeRecently there has been a number of reports about a woman who died after being gang raped after she applied for a job at a local Pick-n-Pay via Gumtree. Gumtree is the most popular online classified ad website in South Africa. When comparing it to Junkmail and Vottle.com using Alexa.com rankings you'll notice they get more traffic than both of those combined. Now to the case at hand, applying for jobs via classifieds. This is big business. It's one of Read More →

Chocolate Marketing for your Business in Cape Town

Chocolate cluster gifts by Renecia ScheepersFrom my good friend Renecia Scheepers in Cape Town. Tell her I sent you when you place any orders with her. I don't get any referral fees or anything else except the knowledge that I supported by friend in her small business venture. Nice marketing for your business.... I make up little packets of chocolates as well as gourmet chocolate and nut clusters like in the photo attached...which you can give to "certain" clients as an incentive for purchasing over RX Read More →

Dollars and White Pipes

Hey I know I'm a few years behind in noticing this movie. My friend Ra-eef Wicomb brought this to my attention today. So here's the write-up from Video Vision, the main production company, and the trailer from Youtube follows below: VIDEOVISION'S "DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES" PREMIERES AT MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL Dollars And White Pipes, the stylish Cape Flats film produced by Videovision Entertainment will have its international premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival where it will be featured in its "Focus On World Cinema" category. The Festival takes place from August 26 to September 5. Dollars And White Read More →

Breakfast with Angela Ludek, aka WildAngel

About 3 weeks I met someone with whom I believe I share a spiritual connection. I cannot explain it in words. Freud came close when he described this type of feeling as uncanny - strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way. And Carl Jung helped me understand how we met when he in turn coined the phrase synchronicity - the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. Well what am I going on about here? Let me take you back to the days of SABC1's Simunye Grooves days. Angela Ludek was Read More →

Ramon Thomas ends association with DBS Human Capital

WITHOUT PREJUDICE I am in the process of issuing a letter of demand against directors, Nia Maritz and Peter Jeffrey as well as their company DBS Human Capital (Pty) Ltd (www.dbshc.co.za) for non-payment for organising the Women4Women conference on 5 October 2007 and work done in preparation of the next conference to be held on Friday, 24 October 2008 in Cape Town. While preparing for the 2nd conference to be held later this month a dispute about payment arose between us. My attorneys have instructed me not to published any details until they have reviewed the list of demands and checked Read More →

27Dinner talk, Mutual-Aid between African Bloggers

Thank you very much to Dave Duarte and Max Kaizen who have both supported my drive to create stronger relationships between South African bloggers and those bloggers from the rest of Africa. This has nothing to do with with the Xenophobia attacks, although it will restore tremendous goodwill that has always been there in the blogging community - most South African bloggers may not have been aware of this until this talk at the bi-monthly 27Dinner event in Cape Town.

I delivered for me one of the most important messages since I began blogging in Read More →

Live-Blogging the Gartner Africa Symposium 2008

For the next few days I am live-blogging the Gartner Africa Symposium at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Here's what you can read more about on my NETucation business blog:

The Economist Intelligence Unit has declared 2008 to be the year of the emerging market. They are not alone in this prediction. Emerging economies present companies with some of the biggest opportunities for growth this year. And this doesn’t refer just to China and India.

In fact, the three most buoyant economies in the world are on the continent of Africa. Read More →

Dr John Demartini works with South African Police Services

Dr John Demartini embraces Police Officer in Cape TownOver 600 senior police men and women flocked to the Montecasino Ballroom in Johannesburg and a week later a further 600 to The Westin Grand CT Arabella Quays to hear human behavioural specialist Dr John Demartini speak about ways in which they could empower their positions as police men and women in South Africa. This Demartini Institute initiative, partnered by The Star (Independent Newspaper Group) and Read More →

UCT GSB study shows youth entrepreneurship improving but still room for improvement

Alan Hammond, editor of Skillsportal website and Jacqueline Kew, a GEM researcherThe latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study, conducted by the UCT Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), based at the UCT Graduate School of Business, has found that more South African youth are developing the confidence and potential to become entrepreneurship superstars. The key findings show that the youth (categorised as those in the age categories of 18-24 years and 25-34 years) have a positive attitude towards opportunity-oriented business activities and a Read More →

Finally made it to Cape Town 27Dinner

Ramon Thomas and Dave Duarte @ 27Dinner in Cape TownLast Friday I finally made it to 27Dinner in Cape Town. This particular event was oversubscribed, which is a healthy sign for any event organisers and sends a positive message to all the participants. It reminds me when someone said, the geeks shall inherit the earth ;-) This is really a superb way to meet the most prolific bloggers around South Africa. I have been recommending the students from my blogging seminars, including Read More →