SA Rocks

I blogged photos and a more detailed blog post about the Debeers mining ship previously on SA Rocks.

I know have a video from the day up on Zoopy! Here it is, watch and let me know what you think of Peace in Africa, the offshore mining ship. It really was a wonder of technology in Africa and the World.

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It’s Sunday morning and we’re at the Rosebank Hotel. It has recently been redone in it’s entirety. What a pleasure.

So basically the next ten or so days I will be on a whirlwind nationwide tour around SA!

I am blogging on various platforms and have decided to try my best to split up the content according to the platforms that I am writing for. My personal blog, nicharalambous.com will consist of interviews with the 8 or 9 bloggers that are on this tour from around the USA.

I will also be writing on the Bizcommunity blog where I will try to keep things a bit more formal and prim and proper and as business orientated as possible. I will be uploading photos, audio, notes and lots of video content to my Zoopy Profile and cross posting things on to the HCR blog as well.

SA Rocks will be the platform that I make use of to show everyone how incredible South Africa is. We are going to be doing some insane things on this trip and I will be recording everything in widescreen HD and uploading to Zoopy to put on here.

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According to the IEC 3.6 million South Africans passed through ±19 000 registration stations over the registration weekend that just passed.

I am fairly impressed I must say.

Apparently a total of 1 648 189 new voters were registered, the rest were people checking their details and changing their voter districts. Again, I am impressed.

The most interesting news that I read at southafrica.info is that SA Citizens can register on any weekday within offices hours at your nearest IEC office.

I am going to repeat this news (probably for the next 6 months):

A Citizens can register on any weekday within offices hours at your nearest IEC office

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To find your nearest IEC office visit the IEC Contact us page.

Incase that doesn’t work call the numbers below:

Eastern Cape Provincial Office
The Mansions, 14 Ganteaume Cresent, Quigney, East London
Tel: (043) 709 4200
Fax: (043) 7434784

Free State Provincial Office
NRE Building , 161 Zastron Street, Bloemfontein
Tel: (051) 401 5000
Fax: (051) 430 4845

Gauteng Provincial Office
1st Floor, A-Block, Empire Park,
55 Empire Road,
Parktown
Tel: (011) 644 7400
Fax: (011) 644 7448

KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Office
Westville Civic Centre (Main Building)
William Lester Drive
Westville, 3629
Tel: (031) 279 2200
Fax: (031) 279 2226

Mpumalanga Provincial Office
Nelplex Building
13 van Rensburg Street
Nelspruit
Tel: (013) 754 0200
Fax: (013) 753 2564

Northern Cape Provincial Office
MBA Building, 20 Currie Street, Kimberley
Tel: (053) 838 5000
Fax: (053) 831 8095

Limpopo Province Provincial Office
15A Landros Mare Street, Polokwane
Tel: (015) 291 0600
Fax: (015) 295 9609

North West Provincial Office
103 Sekame Street, Mmabatho
Tel: (018) 387 6500
Fax: (018) 387 6522

Western Cape Provincial Office
5th Floor
Mutual Centre
52-54 Voortrekker Road
Bellville
7530
Cape Town
Tel: (021) 944 5300
Fax: (021) 945 2691

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South Africans David Goldblatt and Barry Lategan are among 22 photographers from around the world who will be honoured at the Royal Photographic Society’s prestigious annual awards ceremony in London on Thursday.

Goldblatt and Lategan will be awarded honorary fellowships for their “significant individual achievements and contributions to the art and science of photography.”

About Goldblatt:

Born in Randfontein in 1930, Goldblatt has been documenting the changing political landscape of South Africa for more than five decades. His retrospective exhibition, David Goldblatt 51 Years, has been seen in New York, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Oxford, Brussels, Munich and Johannesburg.

He has won the most prestigious photography prize in the world, The Hasselblad Photography Award. He is the only South African artist to win this prize, and received it at an award ceremony on the 25th November 2006 in Goteberg, Sweden.
About Lategan:

South African born Barry Lategan came to England to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, during which time he was called to national service in Germany, where his interest in photography developed.

He opened a studio in London in 1965, where he took the first photographs of Twiggy, before moving to New York to live and work between 1977 and 1990.

Lategan’s photographs have been published worldwide in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire and Life.

Info sourced from sainfo, lensmodern and Goodman-Gallery

Source: SouthAfrica.info
The all-in-one official guide
and web portal to South Africa.

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