cape town

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Richard Stallman visits Cape Town

Richard Stallman visited Cape Town, and gave a talk at the University of Cape Town titled “A Free Digital Society” On the 4th September I picked Richard Stallman up from the airport and we went to dinner with a number of people that had helped organise the event at Brass Bell, Kalk Bay. Around Cape Town He stayed with me and my friend Lerato in Muizenberg, and he is a gracious and accommodating guest.
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Cape Town, South Africa

By |  Jun 21, 1998  | itouch, intouch, cape-town
Folks, I was met at the airport, and we went straight to the offices of InTouch, the company I have been in correspondence with. Good thing I had a shower .. The company have arranged to put me up in a hotel for a week, until I find another place. Very nice of them .. The company is very closely associated with Vodacom, a large cell-phone provider in South Africa. They have a number of products - two voice applications, running under OS/2, one for dial-a-share-price, the other for dial-to-get-your-current-bank-balance.
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