Mike Stopforth

In 1964 Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death by a serial rapist and murderer. The murder took place over a period of about a half hour, after which it was reported that dozens of alleged “witnesses” failed to help the victim.
As a result the bystander effect - a psychological phenomenon in which someone is less [...]

After over a year working out of a bit of a skanky joint, we decided we wanted our own space (and also just got too big) and can officially announce the new residence of Cerebra on the first floor (middle suite), Block F, Rochester Place, 173 Rivonia Rd. That’s just after the Harley Davidson [...]

When considering all the the captains of all of South Africa’s professional sporting codes since readmission, none have received as much flack and endured as much pressure from fans, fellow players and media alike than Graeme Smith, and yet despite all that produced such excellent results.
Yes, read that sentence again if you need to.
I have [...]

Standard Bank have broken new marketing ground by becoming South Africa’s first major brand (or any brand for that matter) to publish a social media release for our national Pro20 cricket tournament, of which they are the major sponsor. It seems quite appropriate that the progressive, game-changing nature of the 20-over format of cricket [...]

The team at Zoopy.com have edited and published a video of my talk at the recent New Media Marketing Conference. Here is the clip (complete with English phrases that I tend to make up on the fly. I reckon it’s just part of my charm…):

Your comments, as always, are encouraged and appreciated.

I’ve had this review saved in my WordPress drafts for some time now, but after I noticed that Saul was kind enough to mention my blog in his post I felt a bit guilty that I hadn’t published it yet. So here goes…
Saul Kropman authors The Outlet - “Interesting commentary for interesting people” [...]

Congratulations to the following three suggestions for improvements to Afrigator, which according to my records, where the leading submissions on the Muti Hot page last night at 22h00:

Nic Haralambous
Nic suggested that we bring competitive rankings back to Afrigator.
In my honest opinion I think Afrigator has lost some fight since it decided not to rank blogs [...]

If you’ve found your way here because you heard me chatting to Simon Dingle, welcome! Please feel free to leave a comment below with any questions you may have. My thanks goes to 702 for the opportunity to have a quick chat on Talk at 9 after John Robbie picked up on my [...]

It’s our first birthday and in keeping with the spirit of innovation and community we’d like to ask you - the dudes who actually make Afrigator tick - to help us come up with some innovative new ideas for improving the experience, look, feel or whatever of the site…
Announcing the ‘1 TH1NG‘ Afrigator birthday competition!
Submit [...]

I flew down to Cape Town yesterday to attend the South African Blog Awards.
The event was held at the UCT Tennis Club and was very well attended by folks from all walks of life. Huge congrats go to Jon Cherry and his team for organising the event out of the goodness of his [...]