Lavacious South African Women on the net
Represent is just one website put together by mothership SoulProviders. Check out the latest online campaign from SoulProviders for Brutal Fruit Lavacious Lemon. It’s a promotion showcasing pictures of all different kinds of SA women enjoying the latest Lavacious Lemon flavour. We thought our readers may enjoy the concept. Re… gister and vote for your most Lavacious Ladies… there are shopping vouchers to be won! Represent! Here’s more from the team: Following on from the success of the Brutal Fruit Fantasy campaign which had over 40 000 unique visitors viewing 450 000 pages during the competition, VWV in partnership with SoulProviders have launched the “Lavacious is the new Fabulous” campaign. www.brutalfruitlavacious.co.za. SoulProviders Creative Director Sarah-Jane Boden says the concept was inspired by the Japanese “Fruits” magazine which showcases street fashion and style. “During the research phase for Fantasy we were struck by the lack of online visual presence of South African women, we decided to maximize on the sampling activities and change this by identifying and celebrating women that stood out from the crowd by putting them on the net.” Lavaciously styled Brutal Fruit “style police” hit outlets throughout the country and take photographs of all kinds of Lavacious women sampling the new flavour. The public are invited to vote for their most Lavacious women online, two of whom will win a trend-seeking trip to Tokyo, Japan. Lavacious represents exotic, gorgeous, glamorous, strikingly stunning, zesty and trendy and the judges will choose the two women who most represent the Brutal Fruit Lavacious brand. “We wanted to give meaning to the word Lavacious, making it the new Fabulous and at the same time celebrate the diversity, creativity and uniqueness of Brutal Fruit consumers. The beauty of this campaign is where Fantasy told us all about the consumers desires, Lavacious puts a face to the names. Now we know exactly who is drinking Brutal Fruit.” says Sarah-Jane. “Initially we were seeking out the most trendy consumers we could find to give Lavacious a stylish edge, however as the campaign has evolved it has become more of a portrait of everyday Lavacious South African women out on the town having fun. It is a more targeted campaign as the entrants have to be in the right place at the right time to be picked, as opposed to Fantasy where any South African adult woman could enter.” Visit www.brutalfruitlavacious.co.za before the 14 December and vote for your most Lavacious woman....
Mother City Queer Project strips down
We’ve heard all about the fabulara MCQP aka MotherCityQueerProject but never got to experience the hedonistic delights of this event that draws thousands of guests from all over the world… Cape Town’s must do event of the year – we wish all the holiday makers luck as this years event takes place at Ratanga Junction in peak holiday season the 1… 6 December ’06.: In a strategic coup, MCQP organisers are thrilled to announce they have secured the most popular MCQP venue ever – Ratanga Junction for this year’s party, COMIC STRIP! On the 16th December, thousands of locals, and international tourists, will dance the night away at the party of the year, in the spectacular theme park. Last year, the thousands of party people who attended the extraordinary event voted Ratanga Junction best venue ever for MCQP. Ratanga Junction, situated on the N1 near Canal Walk is a dream venue for a party like MCQP. Its proximity to town makes it accessible, and yet it has the capacity and space that many in town facilities cannot offer. Parking is plentiful; party revelers are safe and shielded from weather and wind which has plagued the event in years gone by; and the theme park has an atmosphere of magical creativity, which makes a gay theme party come alive. Parking is safe and abundant and surrounds the venue. All the facilities one needs are close at hand: from food to public phones, cash machines to conveniently situated ablutions, and there are facilities for disabled persons. The Mother City Queer Project is a costume party of epic proportions that attracts a wide variety of people from all walks of life and from every major continent around the world. Costume design starts months in advance with many people going to great lengths to design fantastic creations. The theme is just the starting point for some wild and wonderful costumes. The event itself is a dance party infused with live bands, interesting acts as well as a variety of top DJ’s playing 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and current musical beats across several dance floors on Ratanga’s island complex. Since its takeover last year, party organisers have invested time, money and energy into this colourful brand with the objective of turning it into a festival of celebration and excitement. For the first time in its 13-year history, MCQP presents the official after party, COMIC STRIPPED, that is scheduled to take place in the De Waterkant Village on 17th December. All the dýcor and entertainment elements of the main party will be incorporated into the after party as well as additional surprises that remain to be...
Win a Surfing trip to Mozambique!
Cape Townians or anyone who will be on holiday in Cape Town in December, get down to the rather unique sounding Wavescapes Surf Film Festival – ladies you’re guaranteed to be surrounded by tanned, toned and hunky looking casual guys… You know the KFC ad – fully bru. Enter their competition and win a surfing trip to Mozambique – yumyum – now that sounds like a holiday of note. ww.wavescapes.co.za/”>Wavescapes is about surf culture, but they don’t want you to feel left out. So they have organised a great competition where you too can learn the Zen-like skill of surfing. When you get a ticket to the Wavescapes Surf Film Festival, presented by FNB, you could win a learn-to-surf trip for two – with your own guide – to Mozambique. The grand prize includes all flights, and six night’s accommodation at the Turtle Cove Surf and Yoga Lounge in Tofu, Mozambique. What’s more, surf lessons will be provided daily by a trained instructor from Surfing Safari, a surf travel company. If you surf already, no worries, the instructor becomes your guide to some of the outstanding surf breaks of the region. The film festival, in association with GQ, Zigzag, Cape Times, Wavescape, Malibu and Drive South Africa, runs in Cape Town from Thursday 7 to Thursday 14 December. The competition features prizes worth more than R100,000. Apart from the grand prize to Mozambique, which is worth R25,000, there are six Safari surfboards, six Iron Fist skateboards, FNB daypacks and hampers, and stacks of other prizes, such as BondiBlu sunglasses, Sterkinekor games for PS2, Roxy and Quiksilver surf apparel, Puma peak caps, gift vouchers from Lifestyle Surf shop, Reef products, goodies bags from Rogz, Dakine leashes, Sex wax from Mr Zoggs, Island Tribe sunscreen, ZigZag, GQ and SWG magazines and more! The sixteen-day feast of surf culture, including a surfboard art exhibition and charity auction, runs in Cape Town before the roadshow heads up the southern Cape coast at the peak of the summer holidays between 17 and 23 December. Helping to make it an “Endless Summer” will be the cult classic of that name, a film by Bruce Brown that immortalised the Cape St Francis break now called ‘Bruce’s Beauties’. A strong South African theme this year is core to the lineup of films this year. Shaun Tomson’s “Pure Line”, a unique history of Jeffrey’s Bay, will be shown in Cape Town for the first time. Other films are the pumped up “Drive Thru South Africa” featuring Martin Potter; “Horrorscopes: Cape of Storms” when a group of famous surfers try to score huge surf at a giant reef off...
SA boy builds rockets to go to the moon
We’d heard rumours about a South African dude building spacecrafts to make flying to the moon as easy as booking an online flight – we finally tracked him down. His name is Elon Musk he’s about 35 years old and he is a serious INTERNET and MOON guru!! Similar to Roelof Botha, who we have recently profiled on the site, Elon is a young entrepreneur and now succesful self-made bi… llionaire with incredible vision and belief in big creative concepts and in Elon’s case, way-out visionary ideas and projects. Elon was one of the founders of PayPal – he sold it for 1.5billion bucks and now runs a company called SpaceX which is building rockets to get to the moon. The man is clearly very gifted and very ambitious – thanks for making us proud!!! Well if we made that kind of cash in a deal we’d also spend it on the craziest and most far out thing out there… gettting to the moon! See an extract of his biog from NotableBiographies – we in the meantime will try and secure our own interview with Elon. NotableBiographies: ELON MUSK 1971 ” South Africa Entrepreneur, philanthropist Elon Musk was a multi-millionaire by the time he reached the age of thirty-one thanks to his creation of the company that became PayPal, the popular money-transfer service for Web consumers. Musk has become one of a new breed of what the New York Times called “thrillionaires,” or a class of former high-tech entrepreneurs who are using their newfound wealth to help turn science-fiction dreams into reality. Musk is the founder of Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, a company based in El Segundo, California. In 2005 SpaceX was busy building the Falcon rocket, which he hoped could some day make both space tourism and a colony on the planet Mars realistic goals for humankind. Sells homemade video game Musk is a native of South Africa, born in 1971 to parents who later divorced. His father was an engineer and his motheroriginally from Canadawas a nutritionist. Musk was fascinated by science fiction and computers in his adolescent years. When he was twelve, he wrote the code for his own video game and actually sold it to a company. In his late teens, he immigrated to Canada in order to avoid the required military service for white males in South Africa. It was still the era of apartheid, the South African legal system that denied political and economic rights to the country’s majority-black native population. Musk was uninterested in serving in the army, which was engaged at the time in a battle to stamp out a...
We finally get onto MANGO airlines
Welcome Mango – we love nothing more than another low budget airline joining the melee… now when are you guys going to get creative with your routes and head to superfly continental stops like Moz, Malawi, Kenya, Tanz etc??? Don’t mean to be ungrateful . That said, Kulula does fly to Namibia and Zambia – both stunning places to visit. What we love about low-budget airlines is the fact that a… s the boys in green say: “Now anyone can fly”. Too right. So tell everyone in the kasi to the city that they can now also afford to fly with a little bit of planning and saving. Now we need creative accommodation solutions and carhire!!!! So we have been trying to get into Mango airlines for about 3 days since we were alerted of it’s launch just before the public found out – Tues 1 Nov at 7pm is the first time we managed to get all the way through the process. In order to judge just how juicy their prices are, we did a comparison study with Kulula, Nationwide, 1Time, SAA and SAA Airlink. You may think these other airlines are disadvantaged as their cheapest fairs were probably snapped up a while back – but for this exercise we will assume that the hype and huge numbers that have been visiting the Mango site in the last two days more than make up for that time difference. We requested the following: A round trip from Johannesburg to Cape Town for a weekend for two people (one must aim high), leaving at 6pm on a Friday evening after work and returning Sunday evening in time to have supper in Joburg. Here are the results – none of them were phenomenal but they may be because our the parameters of our request…: 1st place: MANGO R2396.00 all in. R1198 per person. 2nd place: 1time R3496.00 all in. R1748 pp. 3rd place: Kulula.com R3596 all in. R1798 pp. 4th place: Nationwide R3682.00 all in. R1841 pp. 5th place SAA and SA Airlink Both R5168.00 all in. R2584 pp. So there you have it – right now Mango has upped the game. Let’s see how the others respond. We’re sure they have something up their sleeves. Let us know your favourite airline in terms of quality. Happy Flying! ========================================= 9 February 2006 One of the rules about living a feng shui life in a megacity like Jozi is that you always have to get away at least once every 3 – 4 months to get a breather – even if that means going home to uMama in Giyani… It refreshes you...
Last but not least – DURBAN it’s your turn
Getting in just before the rest of us descend on KZN for sun, fun and year-end madness, Levi’s turns it’s attention to Deben and blesses them with a stunning line-up. By the way – how hot is Arno in this pic? Levi’sý Vintage Sunday’s comes marching into Durban for the month of November, turning Sunday nights at Society into a destination of choice, as the music massive like their tunes to be to… tally local. And they won’t be disappointed with no less than ten of the country’s top acts taking the stage for week after week of rocking madness. Its fast, it’s furious it’s totally free. So make sure that in November, you save some energy for the last few hours of every weekend. It will be well worth it. It’s been an amazing ride. Levi’sý Vintage Sunday’s has travelled the country since April, spreading the local music word and getting the crowds down to support South African talent with a series of gigs that have blown perceptions away, hair back and people off their feet. In November, Levi’sý Vintage Sunday’s coasts down to Durban for this year’s final month of musical madness. So if you’re in the area, make sure you catch the last chance to see some of our best acts for free. If you don’t manage to, then know that you’ve missed out. Up first on the 5th are the inimitable duo of Arno Carsten and Albert Frost. This meeting of musical giants with a whole lot of soul is bound to entrance as the boys take you through their personal take on blues-infused rock. It’ll be unique. Showing support on the night is Baz Corden, an eclectic artist whose optimistic musical charm is quite simply infectious. Farryl Purkiss oozes up to the mic on the 12th, delivering an unusual mix of vibrant vibes set against lush minimal drums, bass and dreamy guitar solos. He’ll take you to that place you want to be. Love Jones start the evening off with their energetic mix of pop-laced, vocal-driven power. The 19th sees a true pioneer taking to the stage. It’s Steve Newman’s turn to entertain with his carefully constructed melodies and haunting delivery. He’s got a history to share. Come feel it. In support are Guy Buttery with his unconventional guitar and percussive techniques, and Nib van der Spuy whose intricate soul-searching arrangements find their way into every heart that hears him. Closing it all off on the 26th are Mzansi’s favourite fun-funksters. It’s Tumi and The Volume, and this crew is going to lay down their smooth mix of root styles, and lay them down...
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