Highway Africa: Social Media from margins to mainstream

As you might have seen on my Twitter account, I attended the Highway Africa conference from Sunday 06 September to Monday 07 September 2014. The conference explored whether social media and new technologies are still on the margins in Africa or has it crossed over to being mainstream. It is difficult to throw Africa under

Carina Truyts makes cooking easy and fun in Yum-mo

Ettioné Ferreira With the official launch on 19 May 2014 of the cookbook Yum-mo! around the corner, Carina Truyts prepares to show South Africans on a budget an easier and cheaper way of cooking. The launch will be at the University of Pretoria with the help of the Honours marketing class who did their semester project on

Basil Mills: the South African Steve Irwin

Ettioné Ferreira Basil Mills is no ordinary man, in fact, he can be considered as Grahamstown’s own Steve Irwin.  With famous photographers such as Obie Oberholzer photographing him, he has never been shy in front of the camera.  After finding out that he lives on Donkerbosch Outspan Ranch. During the week I found find Basil