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May 12th, 2008

PangeaDay: an event lived worldwide

Juliana Rincón Parra · 04:14

lingua → mk · sq · de

Pangea Day took place Saturday, and people from different parts of the world got together to watch movies and be a part of the worldwide event where movies, speakers and music showed us a bit of life on the other side of the globe, uniting people from all walks of life to believe that we aren't as different as we would believe. It also included a mobile video contest, with an international lineup of winners. 3 comments · »»

April 26th, 2008

Zimbabwe: Post-election violence on the rise

Ndesanjo Macha · 19:16

The election crisis in Zimbabwe continues: there are reports from the mainstream media, bloggers and human rights organisations about state organised post-election violence against supporters of the opposition, the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has left the country for Botswana fearing for his life and the “ship of evil” continues to draw bloggers' attention. 1 comment · »»

April 23rd, 2008

Green Global Voices on Earth Day 2008

Juliana Rotich · 06:32

lingua → de

Bloggers celebrated Earth Day on April 22 by posting their thoughts on what the day means, others did a roundup of articles, some shared reading lists and others mused about climate change. In this brief roundup we get a glimpse of these blogger's views on Earth Day 2008. Starting with ... 1 comment · »»

April 21st, 2008

South Africa: The Praise and Fall of Thabo Mbeki

Muhammad Karim · 12:51

South African President, Thabo Mbeki, is keeping bloggers increasingly active with his recent position on the situation in Zimbabwe, and bloggers are taking him to task. Here's a run-down of blogposts around the issue. 1 comment · »»

April 18th, 2008

South Africa: Mbeki, No Crisis in Zimbabwe?

Muhammad Karim · 16:04

South African Bloggers are up in arms regarding the recent events in Zimbabwe as well as President Thabo Mbeki's statement recently that “There is no crisis in Zimbabwe”. This is a round-up of a few rants on the Zimbabwe situation and its affect on South Africans. 0 comments · »»

April 9th, 2008

The South African Blog Awards

Muhammad Karim · 13:11

lingua → hi · es

On April 2nd, The South African Blog Awards were held in Cape Town to a great turnout of bloggers and also some very inspired winners. This is a summary of posts about the award from South African bloggers. 1 comment · »»

The South African Blog Awards

Muhammad Karim · 13:11

lingua → hi · es

March 26th, 2008

South Africa: We'll argue with our parents and play video games!

Muhammad Karim · 09:02

lingua → es

Earlier this week, President Thabo Mbeki proposed that an oath be recited by school children every day in a nation-building effort. Breaking News says that the Opposition Democratic Alliance Leader, Jack Bloom, had welcomed the effort. However, South African bloggers have another idea entirely. 0 comments · »»

Links

May 14th, 2008

Do they take photos in Africa?: “Pieter Hugo, the South African photographer, is the only African featured in JUXTAPOZ’s “Photo Issue” that came out this month. I guess we’ll have to wait till their “Africa” issue.”

May 13th, 2008

Ladybrille African Fashion News: “A weekly collection of fashion news relating to or about Africa. Some quick highlights from this week's news: a) Ghana prepares for its first ever fashion week with Coca-Cola Accra Fashion Week; b) South Africa forges fashion relationships with Asia, South Africa based Nigerian Designer Fred Eboka hopes to do a show in Nigeria and South Africa's Johannesburg's Fashion Capitol is almost complete!”

May 11th, 2008

May 6th, 2008

The Standard Bank in South Africa responds to online comments: “So, I was really happy to see that not only did Standard Bank fix the problem quickly, but their Head of Online Banking and Communication Channels, Itai Maunga, is engaging with social media channels like Muti, and with bloggers, like me:)”

May 1st, 2008

Carbon Copy considers micro-finance as an idea that could help alleviate the energy problems in South Africa, not just in rural off-grid settings, but also urban squatter settlements.

April 30th, 2008

The South African Mail&Guardian launches Tech Leader: “The Thought Leader concept is expanding over the next few months and the first incarnation is Tech Leader. Tech Leader is an edited group blog aimed at thinkers in the South African technology industry.”

Serious blogging has arrived in South Africa: “The key moments for blogging included the launches of Afrigator, the continent’s first blogging aggregator; Amatomu, the first comprehensive tracking service for blogs and bloggers in South Africa; My Digital Life by ITWeb, which put solid commercial resources and interests behind blogging; and the Times, the first mainstream newspaper to embrace blogs and the social networking environment.”

Wogan's ideas for Muti 2.0: “About a week ago, the ability to downvote articles on muti.co.za was removed. Apparently, responses were mixed, but most were in favour of not allowing people to forcibly bury articles. Now, someone’s gone and raised the question of whether or not downvoting should be brought back. While it might not happen, this could be a good time to rethink the way Muti does things - who knows, it might even become more useful”