Did you know that SA boasts one of the cheapest rates of electricity in the world and exports tulips to Amsterdam? Or that the price of illegal perlemoen has dropped by R300/kg, making it less lucrative for poachers to strip the SA coastline?
If these news snippets cheer you up, you ought to pay a visit to a new site crammed with similar information, geared to making South Africans more positive about their homeland.
Sourced from various Web sites and publications, the site already contains over 600 positive chunks of news and information. It also invited readers to contribute their own positive facts to increase the site`s scope.
Described as the first Web site dedicated to sharing positive news about SA, www.positivelysa.co.za has been launched to highlight positive trivia and good news. The site is run by a group of positive South Africans who say they want to stimulate a passion for SA.
"Much of the good news has been hidden or overwhelmed by the bad news, which we read, see or hear," says Carl Ballot, one of the co-founders of Positively South African. "South Africans, most definitively, have reason to be positive."
Ballot says the site is developed and maintained by volunteers for no financial reward. "We see it as our own way of 'giving back` to our country and her people."
To cover costs, the team has begun exploring revenue-generating areas such as advertising on the site, corporate and commercial endorsements of the site or the commercially-related posting of corporate social investment programmes.
Ballot developed the site with Dale de Klerk and a group of other enthusiastic South Africans, with support from the International Marketing Council`s Yvonne Johnston, BlackRock PR`s Pat Barnes, Reasons to Stay author Ivan Booth and Reasons to Believe co-author Wayne Visser, among others.
Booth launched a good news SMS update service via Vodacom`s InfoText service and www.alerts.co.za late last year.
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