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Amy Stokes

Serving Up a Second Life of Sustenance

Dear Net Buddies & Blazers, Great inspiring answers for what these building do today but no one guessed what they were originally: In 1921 these tall buildings were 56 grain silos sitting on the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.  They are still located in the same place being impossible to […]

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New Ways of Thinking

Dear Net Buddies & Blazers, After Covid-19, life is unlikely to be the same again and there are some things we don’t want to go back to ‘normal’ (like gender-based violence or global warming) but it’s still unnerving to think about some of the changes we’re going to have to […]

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#PassTheMic – Advice from Net Buddies & Blazers

Dear Net Buddies & Blazers, Examining everything through a new lens is going to be an important life skill in our post-Covid world and we’ve talked before about the importance of finding fresh, innovative ways to tackle the challenges that face us.  And that applies to everyone: even the rich […]

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Never Judge a Book (or a Building) by its Cover!

  Dear Net Buddies & Blazers, South Africa is home to one of the most innovative and inspiring buildings built this century. But its story starts almost 100 years ago in 1921.  At that time, and for a long time after, these structures, at 57m, were the tallest buildings in […]

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Every Story Must Find a Voice

Dear Net Buddies & Blazers, One of South Africa’s most famous sons is the author Zakes Mda and one of the best known quotes from his debut novel, Ways of Dying, is “Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy”.  (Hmmm.  What do you think […]

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You Can Make Amazon Bring a Smile to Teens in South Africa!

  With the threat of Covid-19 potentially everywhere, being responsible – aka using masks and social distancing – will mean in-person shopping is more complicated and less enjoyable for many months to come. But this doesn’t mean we won’t still need food to eat, supplies for work and home projects, […]

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