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Google Adds Transit Layer to Google Maps

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Google Adds Transit Layer to Google MapsThe other day Google added another cool and useful feature to their Google Maps: they've added a "transit" (trains only at the mo) layer for several cities, including London, Cape Town and Jo'burg - yes, I was surprised about the last two too.

Whilst the Cape Town and Jo'burg maps aren't likely to be of much use to most people, the…

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Jozi - H

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Tonight I was flipping through the channels on our Sky box (I don't subscribe, I just see what I can get for free) and stumbled upon "Urban TV" showing a dreadful South African drama - "Jozi - H". It's apparently a medical drama set in "Johannesburg's trauma unit" in a kind of ER style. One question: Which one? Jo'burg has …

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Jo'burg Needs Your Vote Now

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Voting is over for the main contenders in the "Monopoly Here & Now Edition" online "vote-athon" and thanks to some great publicity by fellow South African bloggers (here, here, here, here, here and me) and Facebook users, I think Cape Town is sure to be on the new board.

It's now time to cast your votes for my hometown, Johannesburg, in…

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Interesting Links for 22 April 2007 - 17 May 2007

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Interesting links for 22 April 2007 - 17 May 2007:

• Baby Bubba's got a Beretta - Only in America. The best part, the kid's name really is Bubba.
• Monorail to link Joburg and Soweto - How cool is this. First Gautrain and now this. If they can keep this kind of development up, 2010 will be a breeze.
• Zimbabwe…

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Jo'burg International is No More

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Don't worry, it's still there, but as of today, it's just called the OR Tambo International Airport.

Bloody waste of money if you ask me... South Africa is still a third world country with thousands of people living in poverty, yet members of the government seem to be dead keen on wasting millions of Rands changing the names of places and…

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The Middle of Jo'burg Has Been Forgotten

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I was saddened to read about the rapid downturn of the middle of Jo'burg in the past few years. It's as if everyone has forgotten about the City of Gold and left it to turn into the City of Rubble.

I know a lot of it has to do with big companies (including the Johannesburg Stock Exchange) moving out of the…

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Gautrain Fiasco

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Gautrain is a great initiative that has just been approved in South Africa. The idea is essentially to provide a very fast train link between Tshwane (Pretoria) and Johannesburg to cut down on the traffic on the Ben Schoeman highway (M1). It will also provide a super quick branch between Sandton and Johannesburg International Airport.

I think this is a great…

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