Khathutshelo Bapela – Book Of Swag

Yes, Jermaine Is Coming To SA, It’s A Cole World.

Khathutshelo Bapela — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 06:01:06 +0000

So let’s say for argument’ sake, you have been stuck in Hiroshima for a minute and you didn’t see Twitter going abuzz over the news that Castle Lite will be bringing J.Cole to South Africa for one night only. Let’s also say…maybe for some strange reason you also don’t know who J.Cole is, no, wait, […]

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DON’T MISS THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL DESIGN INDABA 2016.

Khathutshelo Bapela — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:14:51 +0000

Design Indaba Conference will, for the first time in ten years, move to a theatrical stage to dramatize the creative ideas of the world’s leading change makers. Since 1995, Design Indaba has been on a mission to re-imagine Africa and inspire a whole new generation of reformers, thinkers, dreamers and do’ers with firsthand accounts from […]

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AirBNB vs Couchsurfing, which is better? #TravelByTheBook

Khathutshelo Bapela — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 09:24:20 +0000

This past December I was lucky to travel to Holland, France, Switzerland, Denmark and Mozambique. I was even luckier that I didn’t pay a cent for accomodation all thanks to Couchsurfing, if you don’t already know what Couchsurfing is…read all about here ( http://bookofswag.co.za/2015/01/22/sleeping-strangers-travelthursday/ ). So one of my Couchsurfing hosts, after cooking me Blanquette […]

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Cool Kidness And Hipsterdom, How To Stand Out In Braamfontein #DearFirstYears

Khathutshelo Bapela — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 09:45:33 +0000

Dear Class of 2015, congratulations on your passes…your hard work has paid off and if you didn’t pass, what are you? an idiot? Just kidding, if you didn’t pass it’s not the end of the world you can still become the president of South Africa * inserts a Jacob Zuma laugh here*. No but, on […]

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TOP 5 FESTIVALS TO GO TO IN 2016. SEE YOU THERE :)

Khathutshelo Bapela — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 07:07:27 +0000

AZGO FESTIVAL | MAY 20 -21 | MOZAMBIQUE Azgo is Mozambique’s premier international music and arts event. The festival has a strong focus on artists from Mozambique and from around the continent of Africa. In its first five years it has hosted artists from Cape Verde, Reunion, Angola, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. […]

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Q & A with Nick Hamman

Khathutshelo Bapela — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:25:25 +0000

1. Hi Nick, thanks for chatting to us…how is a day in your life like these days? What time do you wake up? My day starts at 6am. I take a quick shower, drink some herbal tea (which is probably very Capetonian of me) and check in with the day’s news. I then head through […]

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Design Indaba Is Cooler Than The Metro FM Awards, Fact.

Khathutshelo Bapela — Fri, 22 May 2015 11:06:34 +0000

Every year around the last week/end of February, cool kids pack up and road trip to Durban for the Metro FM Awards, but, the coolest go on a pilgrimage to Cape Town for Design Indaba, the Mecca of all things (A)dvertising, (B)eer, (C)reativity and (D)esign, excerpt we don’t have to pray 5 times a day, […]

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Chaka Khan and Louie Vega To Headline The DStv Delicious Festival

Khathutshelo Bapela — Tue, 19 May 2015 08:21:50 +0000

Multiple award winning Queen of Funk Chaka Khan and legend of the house music scene “Little” Louie Vega are the headline acts at the DStv Delicious International Food & Music Festival, presented by Nedbank, which takes place at Waterfall Polo Estate in Midrand on Saturday, June 6.South Africa’s biggest food and music extravaganza returns to […]

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Today Marijuana, Tomorrow Cocaine…What Are We Going To Legalise Next?

Khathutshelo Bapela — Thu, 14 May 2015 11:52:34 +0000

At the recent Generation Next Awards I learnt that only 44% of young adults think marijuana should be illegal and I’ll assume that the other 56% think otherwise, the following day on Saturday the 09th of May, thousands and thousands of people marched through the streets of Cape Town demanding the legalisation of marijuana, for […]

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SANAA Africa Festival Pays Tribute To Africa’s Creative Talent.

Khathutshelo Bapela — Wed, 13 May 2015 11:30:15 +0000

Themed “celebrating the threads that bind us”, this year’s SANAA Africa festival will form part of South Africa’s official Africa Day celebrations. The four-day long event will celebrate the vast talent of our multi-cultural continent: from visual art and craft, to fashion, poetry, song and film. It is a veritable feast for the ears, eyes […]

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