by David Sasaki | Dec 9, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
For thousands and thousands of years the Nama people of Southern Africa maintained a nomadic pastoral way of life, tending their flocks of goats and sheep, gathering firewood, and collecting wild honey. Driving along the dirt roads surrounding Richtersveld National...
by David Sasaki | Dec 7, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
An article in this morning’s Times, cleverly positioned next to a marketing blurb about an increase in traffic to their website, says that South African bloggers are thriving in cyberspace. A new study released this week by World Wide Worx claims that 4.5...
by David Sasaki | Dec 5, 2008 | English, South Africa 2008
Optimal Energy CEO Kobus Meiring Presenting the Joule Electric Car Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary which shows the roles of American automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the US government in stopping production of electric cars in the US,...
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...
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...
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...
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...