Durban 16 February 2010 | View Comments
Izimvo proudly introduces the man behind the city, Mike Sutcliffe; eThekwini City Manager.
Dr Sutcliffe grew up in Amanzimtoti, part of a large, conservative family, with six siblings, raised by a stay-at-home mother and an accountant father. In 1978, Dr Sutcliffe moved to the United States with his wife, Felicity, in order to complete his PhD [...]
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Durban 2 February 2010 | View Comments
Izimvo has the honour of introducing the founder of MyShuttles.com: Lungile Zondi.
MyShuttles.com is a recently launched Internet Startup looking to change the way people travel. Their slogan, “Travel Safer, Greener and Cheaper” is the perfect description for their unique offering.
The site, which has been in development for two years, launched in January and has already garnered the interest of [...]
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Cape Town 15 January 2010 | View Comments
Izimvo is truly honoured to introduce the founder and CEO of MXit, Herman Heunis.
MXit, a true South African success story, was the first mobile instant messenger of its kind in the country. Today, it is used by over 15 million users in 120+ countries and transmits upward of 250 million messages per day. Since launching [...]
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Londolozi 13 January 2010 | View Comments
We are thrilled to bring you the very first Izimvo video interview with founder of North Pride Male consulting, Wildlife Filmmaker and Writer, Rich Laburn.
Rich, online marketer at Londolozi, has not only taken the time to answer our questions but has also produced a breathtakingly beautiful video giving us an insight into what life is like at one of [...]
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Johannesburg 22 December 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo is honoured to introduce Online Strategist at First National Bank, Andy Hadfield.
Andy, who is currently responsible for First National Bank’s personal banking digital strategy, co-launched www.gAL.co.za while studying communications at UCT. The site, which become the largest national student portal, is considered by some to be South Africa’s first social network.
Andy has also spent [...]
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Johannesburg 17 December 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo is honoured to introduce DStv Online’s Marketing Manager, Anna Vaulina.
Anna recently joined MultiChoice as the DStv Online Marketing Manager. She is responsible for all online marketing of the MultiChoice websites including SuperSport, Vuzu, Mnet, DStv and the new African Film Library.
Be sure to check out the new Mnet website which is currently in beta [...]
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Johannesburg 10 December 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo is honoured to introduce Managing Director of Aqua Online, Brent Shahim
As one of South Africa’s biggest new media agencies and with clients such as Avis, Southern Sun, Nokia, Standard Bank, Pick n Pay and MTN, Aqua Online are at the forefront of a digital South African.
Brent is a qualified Chartered Accountant having completing his [...]
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Cape Town 8 December 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo has the pleasure of introducing SEO specialist and popular blogger, Rafiq Phillips.
Rafiq, winner of the 2007 Top ICT Youth Innovator in Africa, works as an SEO specialist for Naspers as well as running iDrive.co.za and popular South African blog, Web AddiCTs.
Rafiq was featured on MNet’s Carte Blanche on the topic of Social Networking and [...]
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Cape Town 7 December 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo has the pleasure of introducing Springleap.com co-founder Eran Eyal.
Springleap is a website where every two weeks designers get to enter a t-shirt design competition to win R7482.18 (about US$900) – half in cash and half t-shirts – plus massive exposure online and offline. They also get royalties on reprints.
Winners are selected by the site’s [...]
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Durban 27 November 2009 | View Comments
Izimvo would like to introduce the Chairman of Private Property, Justin Clarke.
Recent runner-up in the Jump 2009 E-Commerce awards for the best property website, Private Property was started in 1999 and operated out of Justin’s converted garage for a number of years. Today, the site ranks as one of South Africa’s most popular and the first stop [...]
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