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Cape Town Premiere of onematchstick, The Movie

The Premiere of the onematchstick movie at Primi Piatti, Cavendish in Cape Town, was another fun evening following on from the Johannesburg Premiere.

Eric, Charlton, Telana, Mongezi and Adin

We had a fascinating mix of friends arrive! Mongezi was our MC and had the crowd laughing a lot. Adin, the cashless dude, shared about his 7 months of living without money, and some of his plans that he’ll be actioning over the next 4 and a bit years. He launched his competitions to win a years free hosting for websites, and we should hear who the winners are soon.

Mongezi, with Adin about to speak

Eran of Springleap.com also shared some thoughts around the whole matchstick trading idea.

Eran talking at the onematchstick Movie Premiere

The artist Tuesday Houston came too and gave me the two prints she is trading for two T-shirts each, and I even received some more three-way trade offers for books and coaching sessions!

Bee, Telana, Tuesday and Jess

After the movie and my little speech, there was lots of mingling and exchanging contact details. And then a few of us ended up at Banana Jam for a bit of an after party!

Aiden, Mongezi, Rod, Adin and Telana

A BIG Thank You to all of those who attended the Premieres! It was loads of fun, and both Adin and I appreciate your support and encouragement!

I chatted with the Ice God and the Chosen One

Mongezi hooked me up with Chuma Kave. Chuma sounds like a rock star- his passion is daydreaming and daring- what an awesome combination. He also believes he is the CHOSEN ONE- seriously! So I look forward to meeting him in person one day, then I can say I've met the Chosen One, Chuma Kave himself.

But seriously, I'd like to meet him one day and chat more, because Chuma's also into helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses and uplifting rural communities through technology- subjects I'm into too. He's also created the Kave Foundation which focuses on empowering the youth through education, and is going to be involved with the Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2010.

Anyway, so Chuma phoned me up early on Tuesday 10th November for my interview on Radio 2000's super fantastic 'Super Fantastic Breakfast Show', which he produces. I went on air with Just-Ice Ramohlola. He's known as the "Ice God", so I think that's why Chuma and Just-Ice make a good team: The Ice God and the Chosen One on the same team can only be a hit!

It was a great chat with Just-Ice, and you'll hear at the end of the interview he talks about there being a "growing number of these people, philantropreneurs". He mentions that, because just a few weeks before he had interviewed my friend Adin who's doing a 'NO MONEY REQUIRED' experiment for 5 years.

And to now add to this list, there is also another South African, Sonja Kruse, choosing to live without money and show how Ubuntu is alive in our country, and she started her journey just 22 days ago with R100 in her pocket.

So with all these philantropreneuers, as Just-Ice calls us, popping up, have a listen to my chat with the Ice God himself on Radio 2000 by clicking here.

Enjoy!
Later
T

Another evening with the 'matchstick girl and the cashless dude

I'm off to Cape Town on Tuesday- It's going to be a packed week in the Mother city, and I hope to get some quiet time on the beach and to also catch up with some special friends, and make some new ones.

If you'd like to meet up then get in touch! You can come and meet Adin van Ryneveld - the No Money Man- and I on Thursday night at the Primi Piatti, Cavendish for the onematchstick movie première, where Adin will be the guest speaker, and Mongezi the MC. Join the event on facebook here.

It's going to be a fun evening if the Joburg première is anything to go by, so do come along and say hi, and be one of the first to see the onematchstick movie.

Adin, Rod and Telana having lunch before the Johannesburg Premiere

Otherwise you'll see me at the Silicon Cape event on Tuesday night, or the Netweb Event on Wednesday, and at some point I hope to have a yummy milkshake at Fire and Ice. I've got no plans yet for the weekend, before I fly back up to Joburg on Sunday, other than to spend some time with my niece and family.

So it'll be great to meet up if you're in Cape Town: Get in touch!

The onematchstick movie

Onematchstick - the movie

Not at cinemas near you

Yes, there is a movie being made about the story to date of my trading of a matchstick into an office. Right now the team at Missing Link are brainstorming and putting together a story board for me! How brilliant is that?

This all came about when the enthusiastic Mongezi of Netweb gave me a call and said:
"hey Telana Banana, why don’t you enter?"

It hadn't occurred to me until that call that I could enter my trading project into a competition like this one, to win a corporate video. It's events like that phone call that seem to open a whole new world for me, and for onematchstick! It's probably also what sparked me thinking even more out of the box, leading to coming up with the idea of my latest trade.

So I wrote the few pages I needed to write to enter, emailed them off and carried on living.

A week later that ever enthusiastic Mongezi let me know that I was through to the final round- I was in the top 2 and had to do a 60 second pitch at the July Netweb Event. So I pitched up on the night, and I WON!

Mongezi, me, Sam and the Zombi

A big thanks to the Netweb Event for organising the Netweb Headstart Competition, and to the rockstars at Missing Link for sponsoring the awesome R50 000 Corporate Video as a prize!

I'm so excited! And I'm grateful! Grateful for the opportunity, and that I took the effort to enter. Shows you what can happen when opportunity knocks and you answer.

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