South Africa 2008 | david sasaki

South Africa's Darling Wind Farm

by David Sasaki | Dec 2, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008

Yesterday morning we visited the Darling Wind Farm. In addition to the three windmills in the photo, there is a fourth behind me. Those four generate enough electricity to fulfill 80% of Darling’s current energy needs. Of course, not every community is windy...

Helicopter Ride Over the Cape

by David Sasaki | Dec 1, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008, Video

Three Notes on World AIDS Day

by David Sasaki | Dec 1, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008, USA

As I wrote a couple weeks ago in an email to the Rising Voices mailing list, I have mixed feelings about World AIDS Day. On the one hand, it can help create the illusion that we only need to think about AIDS one day out of the year and then somehow everything will get...

The GRID and South Africa's First Mobile Documentary

by David Sasaki | Nov 30, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008

As if staying at the Rosebank Hotel didn’t already completely spoil us, we began our blogger’s road show of South Africa with a box full of gadget goodness thanks to the kind folks at Vodacom. Included in the bag was a Vodafone E172 Mobile Broadband USB...

Johannesburg's Rosebank Hotel

by David Sasaki | Nov 30, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008

Are you heading to South Africa and worried that you won’t be able to enjoy the very best of metrosexual hospitality. Check out the Rosebank Hotel, probably the only hotel I’ve ever been to which is much more impressive in person than on its website. It is...

Social Capital in South Africa

by David Sasaki | Oct 1, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008

In 2000 sociologist Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone. No, I haven’t read it yet, but the title sums up his central observation: across the United States league bowling is on the decline. Putnam is concerned by this because it is representative of the...