Subsequent to the dawn of South Africa's new dispensation, veteran journalist Allistair Sparks wrote a book titled 'Miracle Nation'. In his book, Sparkd narrated the events leading up to South Africa's peaceful transition from a racist tyranical regime to a negotiated peace settlement which culminated in the holding of our country's first democratic election on the basis of one man one vote. In my book, Softtechz and Softmeet lend credence to the tile of miracle nation which Allistair utilised to d

Former radio and tv broadcaster, Tim Modise used to be chairman of the Proudly South African campaign. It was basically an organisation which identified, recognised and gave exposure to home grown innovative products and services in the mould of the Softmeet app. Nowadays, I don't hear enough about the Proudly South African initiative and I think it should be brought back and be given proper consideration.

The growing tendency of people mostly prefering to use abbreviated language in their social media communication has been flagged as one the contributory factors towards the the percieved prevalence of poor written communication skills

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The rate at which black South Africans are taking up the sport of Rugby and excelling at it has prompted many in the sports fraternity to bein suggesting that perhaps the quota system in the sporting codes which previously exibited an underrepresentation of blacks should be done away with.

Last week, Siyamthanda Kolisi became the first black African to clock up 100 caps for the Springboks. His latest achievement adds to the world record held by Kolisi as the first man to win back to back IRB rugby world cups in rugby history.

South Africa's senior men's national rugby team, the Springboks, is widely regarded as the number one local sports brand closely followed by Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs at number two and three respectively

South Africa's best supported professional football club, Kaizer Chiefs, does not have a single player in the latest Bafana Bafana squad which is scheduled to take on the Zambian senior men's national team in a friendly match this weekend. This has left many an Amakhosi fan bitterly disappointed