Ismail Dhorat

The ANC, has just announced on they will be hosting a debate on twitter live today. Between 12-1pm South African time. You can follow their twitter account anc_debate. Questions will be fielded by Jessie Duarte.
When i heard the news, i complained to them that hosting the debate between 12-1 on a Friday would exclude muslims. [...]

Ok, So what do you make of the whole Taxi drivers striking and bringing some parts of Jozi to a stand still?
WTF?
If there is one THING that will definitely derail 2010, and plans for 2010… its the Taxi Industry!
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Please note: I received these pictures via email, so if you are [...]

A country, praised for its peaceful transition to democracy… Bans Nobel nobel peace winner Dalai Lama from entering….
Is’nt it Ironic…. don’t you think?
“The government said Monday that the Dalai Lama’s presence at the conference would have distracted the world’s attention from South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup and drawn it instead into the [...]

In Africa you can buy your university text books from a street vendor. Where else in the world can you do that?
I had a meeting this morning in Johannesburg city, and i noticed a street vendor selling books. Street vendors are common here. You can literally buy fruit, flowers etc. from the comfort of you [...]

I got my hands on a copy of the complete Calvin & Hobbes recently, Which has every single strip ever published. While reading the strip i had an idea for a modification relevant to SA. So here it is, editing done by me.

This morning i awoke to the news of a historic event that completely dominated, the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States. It’s not often in the world we see moments like this, the last in memory was the Election of Nelson Mandela. In some ways Obama reminds me of Nelson Mandela, [...]

This morning i heard a news report regarding a facebook group, the facebook group ” ek laaik nie n houtkop nie sou what” with a contact address of (anti.kaffer@yahoo.com). The group, which featured a picture of a guy with a gun standing over a black person (seemingly dead) on the floor. Since then the image [...]

So, you waited up, sat at your computer and eagerly awaited the news on the 3G IPhone. You have drunk the cool aid:

You cant wait to get your hands on your iPrecious….
But the launch date is only the 11 July. You have to wait a month more if you are in one of the [...]

Recently Mandy Dewaal wrote a post entitled “Who’s who in the web 2.0 zoo”, and she concluded that web 2.0 was a “whiteboys club”. Something you would bound to agree with given the people noted in the article. However, Ramon Thomas responded with “Who’s who in the non-white Web 2.0 South African Zoo“.
I asked [...]

I have decided to do a quick study on what the impact of social media has been on the recent Xenophobia issue. I believe if we know how it impacts on a situation we can make use of that knowledge to actually make a difference a whole lot quicker.
Stii was kind enough to provide me [...]