As you can see on the site, we've doodled the Bizcommunity.com logo to fly the flag for South Africa in honour of the 2010 FIFA World Cup - I can't believe just how mal* things are at the moment, with kick-off finally happening end of this week! The Cape Town office has official gone soccer-mad (see our gallery) and I've been flying the flag, mirror-socked my car (thanks, MINI!) and doing the Friday soccer-shirt thing, along with thousands of other Joburgers. I even hit Sandton City yesterday, found Zakumi giving the influx of foreign tourists a baie skeef* look and later watched umpteen numbers of bluelight convoys shrieking up and down Oxford Road, escorting various hotshots to and from the mega shopping centre and their hotels. I even have large tour coaches parked outside the complex where I live, just down from one of said hotels. And the media is just one big soccer frenzy... Oh, and the Gautrain had a huge launch event on Saturday night and treated its VIP guests to stamps, African Footprint and a ticket to ride, among other things. The first commercial trips start tomorrow morning, at 5.30am, just in time to ferry in visitors for you know what. Nevertheless, there are other things happening, like TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg hauling home South Africa's very first D&AD Black Pencil for its Trillion Dollar campaign for The Zimbabwean (many thanks to Sue Northam of SA Promo Magazine for her excellent coverage on behalf of Biz), and this week it's the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco and the IABC World Conference in Toronto. Respectively, we have Anice Hassim of immedia blogging and Daniel Munslow of Talk2Us reporting exclusively for us. Ke nako! Simone Puterman (@SimoneBiz) *I'm practicing being cool in honour of the 2010 Pendoring campaign theme, which broke on Friday 4 June. PS Don't even think of plagiarising Bizcommunity.com. I will track you down (hello, heard of Google Alerts and Twitter Search, let alone proper online reputation management tools?) and show you the results of my benchpressing at gym...
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