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 | Adin Walls Runner up as 2010 best business blog, Adin focuses on what it takes to find your “calling” and exploit everything at your disposal to succeed. He lives and works in George, Western Cape, as a songwriter, recording artist and blogger. His ...... more |
 | Albert Pretorius Albert is a creative through and through, whether he’s weaving new worlds with words, building his next Lego “masterpiece” or continuing his pugilistic pursuits, he keeps it fresh. He’s the editor of an online fashion retailer but has ...... more |
 | Alistair Fairweather: Columnist For his sins, Alistair has been working in online publishing since 2001. Starting out as a web designer, he worked for tech start-ups in both Johannesburg and England. Returning to South Africa in 2002, he moved into an editorial position on MWEB’...... more |
 | Andre Fourie Andre is just old enough to remember playing Xenon2: Megablast on a 286 machine. While there are some painful memories of the school bully picking on him because he dressed up as the Prince of Persia, he is delirious (and sometimes ...... more |
 | Andrew Craucamp Religious sceptic, professional consumer and full time developer. Andrew is an avid open source enthusiast and keen follower of the big players in the information sector. He sternly supports free media, free information and copyleft principals and hates writing about ...... more |
 | Andy Houghton Andy enjoys sharing his knowledge about technology and gaming computers. Andy also writes for Digital Storm, manufacturers of some of the best custom built gaming PCs on the planet.... more |
 | Angela Freeman Angela is a freelance tech, travel and health writer. When she isn't writing she is hiking, playing guitar and attempting to cook.... more |
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 | Two Fruits One Robot Two Fruits One Robot focuses on the technological wonders of the Apple, BlackBerry, and Android (two fruits and one robot, you see?) mobile systems. No matter your smartphone or tablet of choice, you should be covered by the news and ...... more |
 | Bianca Budricks A music, nature and animal - lover, book fiend, food freak, self proclaimed wild child with a strange predilection towards technology and gadgets, the rest is history.... more |
 | Catherine Murray: Columnist Catherine is currently Head of Online at Atalink Ltd, a specialist publishing company based in Central London. She manages the development of news and feature based websites and other online projects, aimed at the business, IT and finance sectors in ...... more |
 | Claudio Rebuzzi In some senses a nomad, Claudio’s itchy feet keep him moving constantly. This explains his passion for traveling and probably for cars too. He studied Linguistics at Rhodes University, which added to his love of language and willingness to ...... more |
 | Danny Greeff Having dabbled in graphic design, mobile and online media, Danny is now the client services director at Hitch Digital, a new full-service digital agency based in Cape Town. An absolute Internet and gadget junkie, Danny enjoys normal things too; like ...... more |
 | David Greenway David is a Johannesburg based technology enthusiast with an insatiable thirst for information. He tends to get excited over hardware more than software and will often be the one in the room going "It’s got 10 cores, 32GB of RAM ...... more |
 | Dee Chetty Dee Chetty, is an Indian-educated web junky from Cape Town. He currently works at MWEB as the New Product Development Strategist for their Mobile division. Dee is a Blogger with a keen focus on Technology, Web Trends, Mobile and Cars. ...... more |
 | Dreyer Smit By day he seems like a normal everyday person, going about his chores working like a good little bee. But at night he changes into the Tech Guru Dreyer Smit. Testing every cool gadget he can get his hands on. ...... more |
 | Edward Love Born and raised in Cape Town, Edward is a keen writer with sights set on screenwriting. He enjoys reviewing videogames, gadgetry and film, and holds a particular affection for Batman. When not being a nerd, he’s a keen squash ...... more |
 | Gareth Knight Gareth Knight is a digital maven and open source evangelist. Educated as a zoologist, he is a veteran of two dot com crashes in London, one web 2.0 acquisition, and runs Technovated. Previously, Gareth served in London as Director of Product ...... more |
 | Garreth Bloor: Staff reporter Garreth is an international journalist based in Cape Town. He has an Honours degree from the UCT Department of Film and Media Studies and served as a researcher in the department. After an active role in student media, he began ...... more |
 | Graham Shillington Graham is co-owner of Refresh Creative Media along with Craig Bruton. He loves ideas, design, technology, human potential and his wife. He is also into kitesurfing, climbing and running.... more |
 | Hendri Lategan Hendri Lategan is a Capetonian based web and tech junkie with a passion for all things digital. He recently attained his Bachelors degree in Socio Informatics from the University of Stellenbosch and is looking to make his mark in the ...... more |
 | Henk Kleynhans CTO at @comparecourses. Storyteller. Built Wi-Fi networks in Africa, lobbied governments on spectrum reform, connected the Dalai Lama to Desmond Tutu.... more |
 | Jacques Coetzee Jacques grew up in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He also studied International Relations (BA) at Stellenbosch University with an interest in innovation and initiatives and how they could contribute to the benefit of society. I have always been interested in both ...... more |
 | Joseph C Lawrence: Columnist Joseph C Lawrence has had lots of thoughts for a while now about the way in which evolutionary and cognitive psychology can help us improve the way we experience the web. Understanding the way our minds work and process information ...... more |
 | Joshua Merrill Josh is the founder of TapCanvas and a co-organizer of Hackers/Founders, the world's largest meetup group for technically minded startup founders. His passion is the rapidly-evolving field of mobile d... more |
 | Kevin Grant: Silicon Valley correspondent Kevin is a journalism geek who hails from Chicago, Illinois. He spent more than three years working in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” building the content enrichment firm Inform Technologies. He is now a second-year master’s candidate at ...... more |
 | Kirsty Sharman Kirsty is a Johannesburg based blogger and digital enthusiast at Retroviral Digital Communications. She spends most of her spare time blogging about all things geek on www.SuperheroStuff.co.za and posting pictures of her Bulldog to twitter… you’ve ...... more |
 | Lauren Granger While studying towards her Bachelor of Journalism degree at Rhodes University, Lauren gave into her fascination with everything digital. As she was more interested in creeping tech sites and Twitter than she was in picking up one of those printed ...... more |
 | Leonard Ah Kun Leonard Ah Kun is a mobile application development specialist and interaction designer. He has a M.Sc degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town. During his studies, his research focused mainly on creating engaging experiences with mobile ...... more |
 | Marc da Motta Despite himself, Marc da Motta graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 2009. Being an avid fan of anything with a big engine, he enjoys writing about cars in his downtime – which is a lot of the ...... more |
 | Marc Forrest Marc Forrest is a blogger, techie, Apple fan boy and dad to three gorgeous kids. He started blogging in 2004 after being inspired by the Joblog.co.za team in Johannesburg, and started a blog called Durbzblog. After realising in 2007 that ...... more |
 | Mark van Diggelen Mark has been actively involved with the Internet since 1995 and more so with online gaming since 2000. He started and initially self funded SkillPod Media in March 2004 and is currently the CEO. To date SkillPod have built a proprietary online game ...... more |
 | Martin Carstens: Staff reporter Martin is obsessed with technology and the future. His work life includes positions at UK based Hotcourses.com, Discovery Invest and currently, Gearburn.... more |
 | Matthew Buckland Matthew Buckland is a web guy who has over the years worked in a programming, editorial and business capacity within the online media environment. He now dedicates his life and soul to Creative ...... more |
 | Max Stern Casino fundi, tech enthusiast, entrepreneur, rights activist, strategy adviser. I'm a senior strategist at Golden Riviera Casino. The industry is full of spammers, dodgy operators, and ersatz reps.. I try to be different. In my spare time I write furiously ...... more |
 | Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed. Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she ...... more |
 | Neil Gillett Neil is an average, non - salaried semi pro squash player and a member of the famous Hamstring Society. When not pulling anything on the squash court, he is an expert in the presentation, multimedia ... more |
 | Nick Frost When Nick isn’t busying himself writing things, he can be found in his natural habitat behind a drum kit or playing guitar. Born and raised in Somerset West, Nick made the move to the city with hopes of success ...... more |
 | Niel Bekker Niel writes about and studies games, media and music in all their 21st-century guises. Currently, he is a graduate student at Jay Rosen's Studio 20 Program at New York University. In the past, Niel has worked in Cape Town, where he ...... more |
 | Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter Nur is an enigma with a passion for creating words. He recently entered a love affair with technology and chorizo sausages. He travels a lot -- you catch him, if you can, at a Silicon Cape event every... more |
 | Peter Verweij After 30 years of lecturing and training at the School of Journalism at Utrecht in journalism, politics and new media, Peter Verweij, started in 2005 his own company D3-Media, which focuses on the following areas: Production of journalistic content for multimedia ...... more |
 | Phil Barrett Phil Barrett is a director of Flow Interactive in the UK and South Africa. He's a user experience designer, which means he helps businesses make more money by making their customers happier. As the complexity of the world around us ...... more |
 | Pippa Tshabalala Pippa Tshabalala is the former presenter of The Verge, South Africa's first locally produced TV show on videogames. She has a passion for all things gaming and tech related as well as a growing collection of tattoos. Based in Jo'burg, ...... more |
 | Rhett Sinnema I was born in Durban and now reside in Cape Town. I study at the University of Cape Town and plan to do a post graduate LLB in the next two years. My three passions are reading, writing and gaming ...... more |
 | Rick Bosch Rick has worked in a variety of fields, from a print and radio journalist to making bubble wrap in the UK for 18 months. However, settled in Cape Town a few years ago, he moved into the online world and as ...... more |
 | Robin-Leigh Chetty Robin-Leigh is Joburg native whose education to date has been both dynamic and wide-ranging. With a degree in Psychology and passion for Philosophy, Technology and anything Japanese, Robin has now turned his efforts to becoming a well-rounded online journalist. Armed ...... more |
 | Roger Hislop Roger is a tech fan that is hot, hot, hot for well designed, clever, beautiful things that make our lives a little bit more amazing. He spends a lot of time geeking out in a house littered with bits of ...... more |
 | Ronan Steyn Ronan Steyn is one of the most serious gamers you will ever meet. With the ability to socialize equally well with a room of hardcore gamers or softcore gamers alike, he eats adaptation for breakfast. As a child he knew ...... more |
 | Ryan Gordon Ryan sees things in binary, which is a handy super power for any coder, even better if you can apply it to your world view. With a BCOM (Hon) Information Systems from UCT freshly behind him, Ryan joined the Creative ...... more |
 | Shaun Chatman Shaun Chatman is a well-published author on many authority sites. He lives in Dunedin, FL, and spends his free time playing with his kids or his collection of gadgets.... more |
 | Shawn Graaff From the depths of classics libraries and American academia, Shawn is a South African based web enthusiast who still believes in the power of the word, now it’s just online. The Content Manager for R.O.I Media, a ...... more |
 | Sorab Ghaswalla An old world journalist who went to the light. Sorab Ghaswalla is a born-again chronicler (this time digital), a newbie Internet Entrepreneur and a digital world consultant, all rolled in one. One of the Internet’s earliest advocates, he was ...... more |
 | Stephan Lourens Born 20 years to early. Curses sometimes. Thinks too much. Believes plug-and-play is the best invention ever. If asked what he wants for his birthday he will say a gadget, then money. So he can go buy... more |
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 | Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor Steven Norris is a born writer, living in Claremont, Cape Town and educated in the ways of graphic design but destined to follow in the footsteps of the worlds greatest authors. He has had many years of experience as an ...... more |
 | Steven Preston Steven Preston is Co-Founder and a Mobile Specialist at Cobi Interactive, the first South African technology company to offer custom software development for the full range of mobile platforms including iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Android. After completing his BSc (Honours) ...... more |
 | Stuart Buchanan Stuart Buchanan is a trained journalist who left the media world to join online start-up 22seven, but still attempts to contribute words and thoughts to his first passion. Mostly, this ends up being nothing more than silly tweets about current ...... more |
 | Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter Stuart Thomas is a product of Rhodes University. Whilst completing his Bachelors in Journalism, Politics and English, he realised he was a bit of a geek, albeit one who isn't afraid of the sun. An honors in English at the ...... more |
 | Tarryn van der Byl After discovering that a career as a space pirate was not yet supported by current advances in technology, Tarryn decided to write about space pirates instead. Or anything else people would pay her to write about, really. The point is ...... more |
 | Tech In Asia Tech in Asia is an online technology news startup based in Asia, with team members all across the region. As a crew of journalists and bloggers with a passion for new ways of delivering the news, we’ve bonded together ...... more |
 | Tech Wire Asia Brought to you by the people behind Asian Correspondent, TechWire Asia offers insights and an overview on the technology scene in the region. Their regional staff focuses on daily news, views and reviews on the startup scene, gadgets, social media, ...... more |
 | TechRadar We love tech! We're unashamedly geeky about it. So we'll tell you what we think in a fair, unbiased way. That's what we're about. We're able to promise this because we're the largest UK-based consumer technology news and reviews site (...... more |
 | Tom Foremski: In Silicon Valley Tom Foremski is a former Financial Times journalist and the Founder and Publisher of Silicon Valley watcher, which is an online news site reporting on the business of Silicon Valley and the culture of... more |
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 | Veli Ngubane Veli Ngubane is the sales and marketing director of Krazyboyz digital. Ngubane holds a BSocSci degree from the University of Cape Town as well as a post-graduate diploma of marketing and advertising communication from the Red and Yellow School of ...... more |
 | Vincent Maher Vincent Maher is the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom, South Africa's largest mobile telecommunications company. His flagship product is The Grid, a fast-growing location-based social network and instant messaging platform. Previously he was the strategist at the Mail &...... more |
 | Wiehahn Diederichs Captonian freelance writer and photographer. Wiehahn is a lover of stories in all its forms. He has been an avid gamer since he took his first breath and is still going strong. If he is not working or gaming he ...... more |
 | Zaahirah Bhamjee Passionate about all things internet, Zaahirah is a Marketing student, full time Instructional Designer and lifestyle blogger. Zaahirah currently spends her time juggling beauty events and support calls from the office. She has also started an initiative to provide female ...... more |
