A Dozen Good Reasons to be South African

Ideate BlogSmall business, entrepreneurship and making a BIG difference with small ideas.

That is the focus of Ideate, a blog that embodies the freshness and enthusiasm so evident in South Africa.

Ideate provides support for new business ideas — and does it with a liberal dose of humour and using an informal blog format and enewsletter.

Here is their tongue-in-cheek list, penned by Ideate marketing dude Fred Roed, of twelve (OK, thirteen) reasons it’s great to be South African.

You’ll have to read the article to get the details on each point …

  1. We have the best names in the world (see? you really do need to click through to the list).
  2. We have the highest commercial bungee jump in the world.
  3. The news headlines are compelling.
  4. We have colourful leaders.
  5. You can buy coat hangers at every traffic light.
  6. The biggest provider of internet insists that you fax everything.
  7. Everyone in the country knows what loadshedding means.
  8. You can become a millionaire selling kak music.
  9. We’re the Rugby World Champions (’nuff said).
  10. We have a promising future.
  11. We have a supercharged internet community.
  12. We have the mountain.
  13. We rock!

Source: Ideate blog

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Posted: January 25th, 2008

Categories: Living in South Africa, From South Africa


One Response to “A Dozen Good Reasons to be South African”

  1. Fred Roed says:
    January 25th, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Thanks a bunch for the kind words.

    This article seems to have resonated with folk - I’ve been getting mails from all corners of the globe. Like your site btw - great attitude, keep it up!

    Cheers,
    F

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