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    Harvest Direct

    Welcome to Harvest Direct, a secure website where farmers can market their fresh produce directly to the Retailers of South Africa. It's a website where farmers can provide the necessary information and contact details to the Retailers. The websites objectives are to provide a marketing tool where farmers can market their fresh produce exclusively to the major Retail groups of South Africa.

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    Ox Wagon Resort

    Surrounded by Sandstone Mountains is this oxwagoncamp where one can enjoy a nostalgic back to your roots experience. This farm, a registered nature reserve, offers a true outdoor lifestyle environment with activities to suit almost everyone. Accommodation is offered in 8 oxwagons – 4x double- decker bunks and 2 rondavels. The lapa is situated at a miniature overhang cave, where you can braai, enjoy a campfire and watch the stars...

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    Ikaheng Management System

    This corporate student information and booking management system is a fully AJAX system i.e. 95% of the system, all dialogs, reports and interfaces and functions are contained in one page, meaning no waiting for other pages to load. The system includes functionality like automated formatted export to Excel, sending automated sms and email messages to students, muliple autocomplete fields - allowing for instant searches, intuitive multi-tab dialog windows allowing quick updates to any student information. All information is instantly updated and refreshed asynchronously.

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    Nicsha Petroleum

    Nicsha Petroleum is an emerging company with an integrated focus on energy which includes trading in petroleum products. Nicsha Petroleum supplies petroleum products as a wholesaler to larger commercial clients. The company enters into commercial supply agreements with depots, retailers, mining, agricultural and similar commercial clients whereby it supplies their petroleum product needs.

     

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    Helena's Overnight Accommodation

    Helena's Overnight Accommodation is an affordable neat overnight accommodation in Bloemfontein. The perfect stopover in Bloemfontein privately run by the owners, Francois and Helen, who will offer you the best hospitality they can. Helena's Overnight Accommodation is conveniently situated in an upmarket suburb and is ideal for visitors to the schools, hospitals, University of the Free State, Bloemcare hospital and minutes from the city's many attractions.

     

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    Furniture Art Company

    Furniture Art Company serves those who want to buy only best designs that money can buy. Our talented artists and designers can replicate anything you show them. If you build a castle, we can design your furniture with pain-staking detail. If you build a safari lodge...

     

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    Visible Speed

    Visible Speed is a large-scale, fully AJAX electronic archiving system that allows individuals or businesses to easily and efficiently transfer all of their hard-copy documents onto the online Visible Speed system. Allocate multiple criteria to files and move them to the desired folders. The powerful search engine ensures you'll always find the documents you need.

     

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    Angies Restaurant

    Established in 1997, Angies is a country restaurant, situated in the quiet, picturesque valley of Honeydew, only 15 minutes from the N1 highway. The open-hearth fires in the main restaurant, private dining room and bar create a relaxed, cosy ambiance for winter dining. In the 2009 VOW-awards, Angies Restaurant received a Gold award.

     

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    Aasvoel Klub

    The Vulture Club was started to provide a platform for poets, musicians and storytellers initially amateur and later professional and amateur to display their talents in front of an audience. The name Vulture was inspired by two snobby ladies with harpoon shaped noses that resembled vultures at a funky poetry reading which did not appeal to their search for an eloquent Wordswoth.

     

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    HouseBook

    HS Webdesign is responsible for the 250+ page super-site, aimed at bringing all of the role players of the real estate industry together on a single website. On HouseBook you can advertise and search for any type of real estate property, real estate related service and events. HouseBook is fully integrated with Google Maps!

     

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    Senqu Trails

    SenquTrails offers a variety of packages to suit the adverturer! From scenic 4x4 trips in the mountains to pony trekking, fishing expeditions and hiking trails, they'll make sure you get a real taste of the beautiful country of Lesotho! Book now to enjoy this unique experience! The Senqu Trails website was also built to include a complete news management system.

     

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    Clarens Xtreme

    Clarens Xtreme is situated in the Eastern Free State next to the beautiful Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. They specialize in adventures that will get your adrenaline pumping. Activities include river rafting, abseiling, paintball, hiking, rock climbing, enduro trails, team building and a variety of day tours. This website also includes a complete news, and photo gallery management system.

     

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    Arco Musica

    Arco Musica is a group of professional musicians, composers and singers. They provide not only a small ensemble (violin, cello and piano/keyboard) for intimate functions, but operate on a much larger scale such as composing and coordinating a professional symphony orchestra for main events.

     

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    DNA

    DNA is a professional financial service association for the independent motor dealer network in South Africa. The site includes a full-scale vehicle advertisement portal, search utility, complete news management system, online photo-cropping and word-processing editors, all built so that the site can be updated daily by the client.

     

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    Spoudazo

    Spoudazo is a promotions agency involved with numerous projects. Among others, Spoudazo represents South African KykNet Idol Dewald Louw and newly published Christian book, 'Jesus Christ is Not a Joke'. Spoudazo has been involved in the production of numerous large scale music productions, featuring some of South Africa's top musicians.

     

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    Thabo Pitse

    SA's very own Charismatic Chrooner. Inspirational, & charming, 25 Year old Thabo from Bloemfontein is passionate about pop classic music and this is easily recognized in the types of music that he performs. Thabo has performed for various dignitaries including Dr Ivan Khoza and State President Thabo Mbeki. He also performed for the World Cup Bid Comittee in 2007.

     

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    Not A Joke

    A beautifully written book for a new generation, proclaiming anew why the Gospel of Jesus Christ is absolutely vital for this life and the life that is to come. This site includes an online shopping component with credit card functionality.

     

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Herman Strauss has a Masters degree (M.Sc(IT)) in Computer Science from the University of the Free State (UFS) (received degree September 2008). Prior to doing his masters, he completed his B.Sc. Hons (IT) in IT Management and his B.Sc (IT) degree. He is a full-time web-architect, programmer and developer, and part-time musician based in Bloemfontein.

He is currently involved in the (outsourced) development of large scale web-application projects for a large web development company in the Western Cape. He is lead web-developer for Visible Speed Electronic Archiving, co-founder and sole developer of HouseBook as well as working on several other websites and freelance projects. He is skilled in the following areas: C# Windows desktop and API manipulation programming, MSSQL server, PHP/MYSQL, HTML, javascript, full-scale XAJAX applications, image editing, video and sound editing, and graphic design experience. In addition to Computer Science, he majored in cello (teacher: Arend Brink) and mathematics at the UFS. He also studied singing at UFS in 2006 and 2007 (teacher: Hanna Van Schalkwyk).

He is a former winner of the Free State Musicon soloist competition and an ad-hoc member of the Free State Symphony and Odeion Symphonia Orchestras. In 2005 he was co-principal cellist in South Africa’s National Youth Orchestra (SANYO). In 2006, he was also a member of SANYO when the orchestra performed at the Berlin Philharmonic Theatre and Beethovenhalle in Germany.



With regard to singing, Herman has performed as a soloist at a variety of large concerts, birthdays, weddings, church services and other events since 2006, including performing as soloist with orchestra many times. The most noteworthy of these are:

  • small red star2006 Bloemfontein Rose Ball with full orchestra backing.
  • small red star2007 Bloemfontein CRC church with band backing.
  • small red star2007 Rapport Sing Jou Taal Bloemfontein with orchestra backing.
  • small red star2008 Arco Musica 15 Year Anniversary Concert with full orchestra and choir backing .
  • small red star2008 Rapport Sing Jou Taal Bloemfontein with orchetra backing.
  • small red star2008 Eunice Service at Trinity Church in Bloemfontein.
  • small red starIn August 2008, Herman had a leading role in Eunice's Professional Musical - Showtime, of which all shows were sold-out.
  • small red starIn November 2008, Herman performed in the PACOFS presented concert "Nights in white satin - A tribute to Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli" where he performed
          8 songs of Andrea Bocelli. The review of the show in the Volksblad quoted "Herman Strauss met sy tenoor stem het die gehoor se harte laat smelt".
  • small red starNumerous events in 2009 and 2010, including weddings, church services, Villa Avianto French Festival and a concert at Oliewenhuis presented by Arco Musica.

Song Title Streaming Audio Download Link
Awake (Sample) Awake.mp3

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