I was reading a post on PulseBlog about the placement of posters for elections and how the ANC is doing things a little different and how it might not be too legal. One image made me laugh: This is an ANC poster on a power box. Kind of sums up how I feel about the [...]

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As you may know this blog is run by Vertigo Project which is a South African development group, who are also involved in niche job boards for South Africans. Today, two new ones have been launched: The first is an accounting and related jobs and job board designed to help firms and individuals find positions [...]

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It’s official, Wednesday April 22nd is the day South Africa will hit the polls to decide which party will take the reigns. Following Easter weekend, it will potentially be delayed depending on the outcome of several court issues surrounding the voting rights of expats. Personally, my opinion is straight forward: if you are temporarily out [...]

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UPDATE: Please read the comments, Justin of Adgator has answered a lot of our questions and given some good news about the future! We’ve been trying to work out the difference between a great day on AdGator and a terrible one to work out whether its worth our time at all, and stumbled across some [...]

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We’ve recently had a spat of users coming in to a local forum we hang out on – Vault9 – and it brought up in my mind that perhaps many South African’s aren’t aware of it as an alternative. Vault9 is a South African community of computer, games movie, television, graphics, and pretty much anything-interested [...]

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Buying console games (new releases anyway) has always been a costly affair. For us in South Africa we’re talking close to R1000 ($105) for a new PS3 game (Resistance 2). My main concern is that with the current state of the world economy, gaming might just become unaffordable. Browsing through the shelves of local retailers, [...]

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