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The awesome “Tourist in your own country” special at Delheim has started. Have you booked your table yet?
Unfortunately, it is only available for lunch…but if you can sneak out of work, take a client to lunch or are lucky enough to be a “Lady who lunches” then get there!!

The special runs until 21 May.

Please make your reservation at Tel: +27 (21) 8884607 or online at restaurant

Conditions apply:

• One starter, one main and one dessert per person
• One booking per group for the week
• SA citizens only – please bring your SA passport or ID
• Offer does not include drinks

Jennifer Hudson at Cannes 2010

Jennifer Hudson is set to start filming a biopic of Winnie Mandela and Winnie is not impressed. The movie will be based on Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob’s biography, Winnie Mandela: A Life. Apparently, Winnie isn’t too pleased with how she is painted in the script and her lawyers have expressed fears that the project is a veiled “character assassination”. Despite this, filming is set to start on May 31 in SA and the director Darrell Roodt has said “We don’t shy away from the controversies”.

Honestly, what does Winnie expect? By all accounts, Ms Madikizela-Mandela, has not lead the life of a saint. Winnie should just be pleased they picked J-Hud to play her…look at that pic of Jennifer, she is looking great! Although, we all saw what they did to Charlize in Monster…so anything is in fact possible!!!

I think this is going to be an interesting one to watch. I suspect this movie isn’t going to inspire quite the national pride that the recent movie, Invictus, managed to achieve!

Winnie on her wedding day (1957)

A more recent photo of her

As the most popular social network in the world, Facebook has become the de facto destination for web users to share their thoughts, photos and videos and connect with long lost friends and loved ones.

However,  there does seem to be growing movement calling for people to delete their Facebook accounts. Critics of the social networking site, are citing privacy concerns and plummeting trust in the company and its leader, Mark Zuckerburg. The “delete-your-Facebook” movement-scheduled for May 31- doesn’t seem to have picked up quite as much support as its originators had hoped…but maybe it is still early days.  There are over 450 million Facebook users at the moment…it is going to take a serious amount of disgruntled users to put a dent in that number!!

Facebook, it would appear, is comfortable that most users won’t even consider quitting despite the multiple bugs. Maybe, Facebook are relying on the fact that when it comes to the web, most users tend to gravitate towards the familiar. For example, when it comes to search and e-mail, they go for Google…and Facebook is the tried, tested and trusted social media space…that, and the difficulty of actually deleting a profile on FB (by all accounts, it is not an easy thing to do).

Facebook recently launched a platform that allows sites and apps to share information about the users in order to tailor offers, features and services to each users interests and tastes. The use of the Facebook “Like” button on non-facebook sites will give users the ability to share their favorite songs, movies, restaurants and news items back with their Facebook friends and integrate them into their profile. This information can be made available to vendors looking to gather information about potential customers. This leaves many people completely mortified at the through of so much personal information being made public.

I personally am quite a fan of FB and so am not sure that I will be signing up to the 31 May initiative, but will be watching with interest to see what happens. Will you quit?