A little while ago I put together a little bit of info about South Africa in perspective. I’m looking at updating this at some stage and adding some other relevant bits in, but for now I’ve put some of it into slides as a starting point… I’ll see where it goes from here. Here are [...]

This one took me a while to get over… it’s one thing to look at SA compared to the rest of the world, but we also need to consider this continent that we are a part of and see where that fits into the global picture. Firstly some quick background information. A list of 181 [...]

This one simply blew my mind… A little while ago, I had a look at the measure of SA’s wealth – GDP [gross domestic product] and how SA has grown in wealth – you can see it here. The funny thing about numbers is that they don’t mean much unless you actually compare it to [...]

I couldn’t resist putting this one here because, not only is this a stunning picture, but it’s also a great way to see Earth’s population from a different perspective: [the small pic above doesn't do it justice - please click on the link to see the big one in more detail] [Original source] Read my [...]