South African Internet pioneer, entrepreneur, filmmaker, and comedian, Ronnie Apteker, has had an extensive career, eventually settling in Ukraine before being forced to live in Poland.
While Apteker has since focused on other interests, he will remain a key figure in establishing South Africa’s commercial broadband landscape.
Born in Cape Town in 1967, Ronnie attended high school and university in Johannesburg, where he studied computer science for nine years.
He graduated Cum Laude from the University of…
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Star Jammer
Van der Merwe is approached by SANRAL one day who want to build a new highway through his donkey farm. Van is really concerned with how his donkeys can get from one side of the farm to the other without having to cross the highway and risk being injured or killed. He is promised that they will build bridges the highway so that his donkeys can cross under the highway. Van agrees and gives them the go-ahead.
The highway is built and a year later the same rep goes to the farm to go see how Van and his donkeys are. He eventually finds Van under one of these bridges chipping away at the roof of the tunnel with a hammer and chisel.
\”Mnr Van de Merwe, what are you doing damaging the highway bridge?\”
Crumb Cake
My teacher pointed at me with her ruler and said that at the end of this ruler is a dumb. Then I asked which end and I got a detention.