One of the biggest Internet industry conferences in South Africa, the annual Internet Week or iWeek is now open for bookings. I spoke at this conference in 2004 on the topic of the Internet Cafe industry in South Africa. And I get regular emails every month, increasingly about how to set up an Internet Cafe….
Today I attended my 2nd Star Trek minicon in Johannesburg, South Africa. The minicon is hosted annually by Science Fiction South Africa. I’ve been a member since 2004 and attended a few of their events. It’s a small group and the people are very friendly and on the shy, introverted side of life. That’s to…
Tonight I went to the recording of a special episode of eTV soap, SCANDAL, with my friend Sieraaj Ahmed, a journalist at You magazine. I met the gorgeous Genevieve Howard, formerly a Goodhope FM DJ and several other beautiful women. What’s funny about her is that she looks pretty plain most of the time in…
For the last 2 years, I’ve tried to join the celebrations for the Chinese New Year. This year, instead of going to Cyrildene in Johannesburg, I went to the old Chinatown close to the old “John Vorster Square”, now Johannesburg Central Police Station. My friend Judy Wicomb from Cape Town tagged along, and it was…
This past weekend, I had the honour of attending a lecture by His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama from Tibet. The spiritual leader of Buddhism is a symbol of peace. This is his 3rd visit to South Africa. The lecture took place at Vista University in Soweto. The main message I took from this lecture…