Mike Stopforth

If you look very carefully you’ll notice that the Golf is actually leaning, along with the people inside…
Ok so I’m kidding but heck, what a phenomenal photo…

Hat tip to the Yellow Llama.

A few weeks ago Susan Shabangu, deputy safety and security minister, came under fire for her comment at a police imbizo when she encouraged police officers to shoot to kill criminals, or more directly - “kill the bastards”.
Family friends of ours are currently spending their days and nights in ICU at the Glynnwood hospital next [...]

So it looks like the cat’s finally out of the bag. I have never written about Bolton the Magnificent, inventor of blogs and master of the Interweb Netsite on this blog before - at the time when the Bolton Deventer meme was at it’s peak I was pretty busy and missed out on the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While the blogosphere has it’s conflicting opinions about the Springleap SEO competition Eric Edelstein has watched his new baby’s rankings soar up the charts.
Springleap.com, for those of you who don’t know, is a site that showcases the T-shirt designs of artists (or just ordinary budding designers like you maybe) on a monthly basis - the [...]

To all that attended the 27dinner in Jozi tonight, thanks for making it an awesome success. Special thanks goes to the speakers - Gareth from Buzzfuse (congrats on the recent growth guys!), Jonathan Miller from ForgeBusiness (viva Las Vegas!), Jo Duxbury from Freelancentral (and the Oscar for the best PPT slides in history goes [...]

This blog has been up and running for some time now. Fundamentally it’s a channel to redirect people to other projects I’m involved in - Afrigator, Cerebra, 27dinners and my speaking and writing gigs.
The site is up for a bit of a rethink and refresh - one of the key decisions I have to [...]