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Group Buying, or Tuangou, is a relatively new buying and marketing strategy originally from China. Offline, Tuangou usually involves several people who approach a vendor of a specific product in order to bargain as a group to get discounts. The entire group then agrees to purchase the same item and benefits by paying less. The business benefits by selling multiple items at once…
One of my favourite new tools/apps from 2010 has to be Dropbox. This web-based service has completely nullified my need for a flash drive and I have not felt the need to carry once since I started using Dropbox for peace of mind…
So, it’s my birthday this Friday the 13th and I decided to share some astrological insight into yours truly using an adaptation of the entry for August 13 in the book The Secret Language of Birthdays by Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elffers…
We all enjoy our nocturnal escapades with a touch of alcohol from time to time. Some of us more than others, but most of the time we are completely unaware of what we are consuming. By the end of this alcoholic exposé, perhaps you shall be more enlightened by some standard – and some bizarre – facts on your drink of choice…
by Matthew Dekenah · Published April 21 2010 · Last modified February 13 2015
We all love a good special and, come winter, Cape Town restaurants usually provide a great selection of them to patrons. This year, however, seems to be a little different. With the upcoming Football World Cup, many restaurants seem to be extending current specials only till the end of May and I can’t say I blame them; what with the sketchy statistics about how many visitors are expected in the host cities and all…
Overall my experience was not as dire as I am sure we have all come to expect from South African bureaucracies. That is not to say that I could not instantly point out any number of inefficiencies in the incumbent system, but I think I am mostly grateful that I managed to spend under an hour in the rather depressing building that is Gallows Hill Traffic Department in Green Point, Cape Town…
None of us like to be pigeon-holed. But stereotyping is unavoidable and inevitable in contemporary society; a society inundated with a constant overload of information. We have to label things based on general conception in order to cope and manage our perceptions. And so, with the help of some Tweeps (see below), I managed to compile some of the characteristics of a typical Capetonian…
